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Features
PlanetPress Workflow are input driven applications designed to output data in a variety of ways
through diverse means to various applications and devices. PlanetPress Workflowcan be used
as simple go between, passing along input data to output devices, but it can also perform
various types of data processing. You can combine the various PlanetPress Workflow services
to set up versatile automated processes to print jobs as well as generate other types of output.
PlanetPress Workflow processes act as sorts of dispatchers. On the one hand, they retrieve
data and control plugins that retrieve data from watched locations, and on the other hand they
send data and control plugins that send data to various devices, for printing or to generate
documents that can then be emailed or faxed. PlanetPress Workflow can also perform a variety
of operations on the data using its action plugins.
In fact, the PlanetPress Workflow plugin based architecture enables almost limitless
customization. You can create or purchase compatible plugins, drop them in any of
PlanetPress Workflow plugin folder and use them to perform other operations. You can even
find free unsupported plugins on the Objectif Lune Web site.
PlanetPress Workflow are service applications, or if you will, applications that continuously run
on a given computer and that perform actions automatically. Those actions are defined in a
PlanetPress Workflow configuration. A given computer can only run one PlanetPress Workflow
configuration at a time. The PlanetPress Workflow Service Console may be used to monitor the
services running on a given computer.
About Workflow Configurations
PlanetPress Workflow Configurations are service applications, or if you will, input driven
applications that continuously run on a given computer and perform actions automatically.
Those actions are defined in a PlanetPress Workflow configuration file. A configuration file
consists of a set of processes, subprocesses, variables, (optional) documents and printer
queues, that work together within the PlanetPress Workflow Service. A process can be used as
simple go between, passing along input data to an output device or folder, but it can also
perform various types of data processing.
You can combine the various PlanetPress Workflow input, action and output tasks to set up
versatile automated processes to print jobs as well as generate other types of output (emails,
web pages, files...).
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