2018.2
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 2018.2
- Installation and setup
- Basics
- Features
- About Workflow Configurations
- Workflow Configuration resource files
- About data
- Data Repository
- Debugging and error handling
- About printing
- OL Connect print jobs
- PlanetPress Suite print jobs
- PlanetPress Workflow printer queues
- Shared printer queue properties
- Windows Output printer queue
- LPR Output Printer Queue
- FTP Output Printer Queue
- Send to Folder printer queue
- Load balancing
- Associating PlanetPress Design documents and PlanetPress printer queues
- Triggers
- Objectif Lune Printer Driver (PS)
- About processes and subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special workflow types
- About Tasks
- About variables
- Special workflow types
- About related programs and services
- The user interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PlanetPress Workflow Button
- Configuration Components pane
- Components Area Sections
- Process properties
- PlanetPress Design document properties
- Moving and copying configuration components
- Renaming objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reordering objects in the Configuration Components pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expanding and collapsing categories and groups in the Configuration Component...
- Deleting something from the Configuration Components pane
- Dialogs
- The Debug Information pane
- The Message Area Pane
- The Object Inspector pane
- The Plug-in Bar
- Preferences
- Other Preferences and Settings
- General appearance preferences
- Object Inspector appearance preferences
- Configuration Components pane appearance preferences
- Default Configuration behavior preferences
- Notification Messages behavior preferences
- Sample Data behavior preferences
- Network behavior preferences
- PlanetPress Capture preferences
- OL Connect preferences
- PDF text extraction tolerance factors
- General and logging preferences
- Messenger plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input plugin preferences 1
- HTTP Server Input plugin preferences 2
- LPD Input plugin preferences
- NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 1
- NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 2
- NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 3
- Serial Input plugin preferences
- Telnet Input plugin preferences
- PlanetPress Fax plugin preferences
- FTP Output Service preferences
- PlanetPress Image preferences
- LPR Output preferences
- PrintShop Web Connect Service preferences
- Editor Options
- The Process area
- Cutting, copying and pasting tasks and branches
- Highlight a task or branch
- Disabling tasks and branches
- Moving a task or branch using drag-and-drop
- Redo a command
- Removing tasks or branches
- Replacing tasks, conditions or branches
- Resizing the rows and columns of the Process area
- Undo a command
- Zoom in or out within Process Area
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Additional Information
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Working with JSON
In online processes, it is common to send data to and retrieve data from a server. That data is
often exchanged in JSON format. JSON is short for JavaScript Object Notation. It is a way to
store information in a structured and easy-to-read format. It is often referred to as "XML without
nodes" and it is designed for exchanging data.
Refer to the following online resources for more information on JSON and its syntax:
l www.json.org
l www.w3schools.com
JSON support in Workflow tasks and scripts
PlanetPress Workflow offers JSON support in and via the following tasks:
l The "XML/JSON Conversion" on page360 task converts an XML job file to JSON or a
JSON job file to XML.
l OL Connect Content Creation tasks ("Create Email Content" on page500, "Create Print
Content" on page515 and "Create Web Content" on page518) and the OL Connect
"Create Preview PDF" on page510 task accept JSON data as input.
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When the OL Connect "Retrieve Items" on page533 task is set to output Records in
JSON, it outputs a JSON Record Data List (see "Types of JSON in Workflow" below).
l The OL Connect Send "Get Data" on page480 task can output its results to a JSON file.
In scripts written in any JSON-aware language (including JavaScript), JSON is obviously
supported.
Certain methods in the "Data Repository API" on page161 accept or return JSON data.
Types of JSON in Workflow
Workflow tasks that support JSON accept or output one or two of the following types of JSON:
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a regular JSON string, containing a JSON object or an array of JSON objects
representing records. If a value in a record object is a string, it is considered to be a field
value. If a value in a record object is a JSON object, it is considered to be a nested table
with detail records. For examples, see "JSON string samples" on page513.
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