2020.2
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 2020.2
- 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
- Run Script task
- APIs
- The Script Editor and XSLT Editor
- SOAP Server API Reference
- The Watch Object
- Data Repository API
- Metadata API
- Attributes
- Count
- Fields
- Index
- NodeType
- Parent
- Selected
- SelectedCount
- SelectedState
- Add(Integer Index)
- AttributeByIndex(Integer Index)
- AttributeByName(const String Name)
- Clear()
- Copy()
- Cut()
- DatapageCount()
- Delete()
- DocumentCount()
- FieldByIndex(Integer Index)
- FieldByName(const String Name)
- FieldByNameIndex(const String Name, Integer Index)
- IndexInDocument()
- IndexInGroup()
- IndexInJob()
- Item(Integer Index)
- PageCount()
- Paste()
- PasteAt(Integer Index)
- Select(TSelectWhat SelectWhat)
- SelectedDatapageCount()
- SelectedDocumentCount()
- SelectedIndexInDocument()
- SelectedIndexInGroup()
- SelectedIndexInJob()
- SelectedPageCount()
- Sort(const String Name, optional TSortFlags Flags, optional const String Name...
- Parameters
- Exceptions
- Parameters
- Exceptions
- Parameters
- Returns
- Parameters
- Exceptions
- Parameters
- Returns
- Exceptions
- Parameters
- Returns
- Parameters
- Returns
- Exceptions
- Parameters
- Returns
- Exceptions
- AlambicEdit API reference
- Stopping execution
- Special workflow types
- About Tasks
- Adding tasks
- Editing a task
- Task properties
- Masks
- Selecting a resource file in task properties
- Input tasks
- Action tasks
- Data splitters
- Process logic tasks
- Connector tasks
- PlanetPress Capture
- Metadata tasks
- OL Connect Send
- OL Connect tasks
- Output tasks
- Document Management tasks
- Connection tab
- Download tab
- Connection tab
- Upload tab
- Advanced properties
- Advanced properties
- Email Services
- Unknown tasks
- About variables
- Workflow add-ons
- 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
- 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
- Resize the rows and columns of the Process area
- Collapse and expand branches and conditions
- Undo a command
- Zoom in or out within the Process Area
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- The PlanetPress Workflow Service Console
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
About processes and subprocesses
Processes
A process is a single workflow within a configuration (see "About Workflow Configurations" on
page32). A process begins with a single input task, contains one or more tasks and/or
branches, and terminates with one or more output tasks. In its simplest form, a process can
retrieve data from a given folder and save it in a different folder. In most cases, though,
processes are more elaborate and configurations, which may include many processes, can be
extremely complex.
PlanetPress Workflow processes act as dispatchers: on the one hand, they retrieve data and
control plugins that retrieve data from watched locations, and on the other hand they can
perform a variety of operations on the data and send data to various devices.
A given process may include Output tasks that generate files used by Input tasks from other
processes.
Each process’s schedule determines when its initial input task can be performed. Other tasks
included in the process are performed regardless of schedule, granted that the previous task
was performed.
The available processes in your PlanetPress Workflow Configuration are listed in the
"Configuration Components pane" on page818.
There are several types of processes available to you:
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A regular process will run as soon as an input file is available through its input task or, if it
is scheduled not to run at that time, will start processing as soon as the schedule permits
it. To learn how to create a process see: "Adding a process" on page126.
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Startup processes run only once before every other process in a given configuration
(see "Startup processes" on the next page).
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Subprocesses can be called by any other process (see "Subprocesses" on the next
page).
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Error processes can only be used in the On Error tab of a task in your process (see
"Creating and using Error processes" on page99).
Self-replicating processes are in fact regular processes that replicate themselves in the
background when multiple input files are received simultaneously. The input task in a self-
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