2019.1
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 2019.1
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Basics
PlanetPress Workflow is a tool to automate the processing, distribution and printing of your
business documents. Once installed on the server, it can be set up to automate all tasks related
to document processing (see "Setting up the working environment" on page17).
When you're all set up, you can start using the Workflow Configuration tool, assuming that you
have already done research on the processes that need to be automated.
Working with Workflow implies the following basic steps:
1.
Creating a Workflow configuration
A Workflow configuration consists of a number of processes, of which each has an input
task, output task and possibly a number of tasks in between. See: "About Workflow
Configurations" on page29.
2.
Debugging the configuration
Debugging is the act of running through your process, either step by step or as a whole,
directly from the PlanetPress Workflow Configuration Tool, in order to detect and resolve
issues with your process. Debugging a process requires providing a sample data file.
See: "Debugging and error handling" on page87.
3.
Sending it to the Server (and testing it again)
As you are working on your configuration, you can save that configuration file as a file on
your local hard drive. Saving a configuration file never replaces the current PlanetPress
Workflow service configuration. To do this, you must use the Send Configuration
command; see "Sending a configuration" on page128.
Related tools and resource files
Workflow serves as automation tool in a number of distinct products. Some of the tasks that can
be used in a Workflow configuration only work with product-specific files. The tools that you
need in order to produce those files depend on the product that you are using:
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PlanetPress Connect users will use the other Connect modules - Designer and
DataMapper - to create the templates, data mapping configurations and print presets
used by OL Connect tasks. The user guides of these modules can be found here:
http://help.objectiflune.com/en/PlanetPress-connect-user-guide/2019.1/.
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PlanetPress Suite users may use documents made with PlanetPRess Design. For the
user guide, see http://help.objectiflune.com/en/planetpress-design-user-guide/.
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