2019.2

Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in
the Process area.
Data splitters
Splitter action tasks are used to split single data files into multiple data files.
Splitters initiate a recurring cycle that stops only when the original file has been completely
processed. When a given splitter creates a file, it hands it down to the task that follows, and all
the tasks on the same branch are performed until the output task. Then the splitter task creates
yet another file that is again handed down to the next task, and so forth until the cycle ends
(when there is no more data in the original file).
In PlanetPress Suite, such tasks can be used, for example, to split files that contain statements
for multiple clients into smaller files that each contain a single client statement. Each statement
can then be printed and sent by snail mail, or emailed directly from PlanetPress Workflow, to
each individual client.
Note that if the process merges the split data with a PlanetPress Design document, the splitter
must not alter the structure of the data file. In other words, each split file must have the same
structure as the original files, otherwise the Design documents to which they will be sent will
not be able to extract the data correctly and the merging process will fail.
In OL Connect jobs, data is normally extracted from a data file using the "Execute Data
Mapping" on page645 task. That task stores the extracted data in records which can then be
merged with a template.
Warning
Splitters do not modify the Metadata that is currently active within your process. This
means that, if you are intending to use Metadata along with a process using splitters, you
can either use the "Metadata Sequencer" on page593 instead of a splitter, or (re)create
the Metadata after the splitter.
About using emulations with data splitters
An emulation specifies how to interpret a data file (see "About data emulation" on page60.)
When an emulation is used with a splitter action task, the job file is emulated, cut to pieces and
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