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
On Error Tab
A process’s On Error tab specifies the default values for error handling of all of the tasks in that
process.
When a task has its own error handling settings, those settings overwrite the process's default
error handling settings. The Set All Tasks button resets the On Error properties of all the tasks
included in the current process to the On Error properties of the process itself.
All other options in the On Error tab of the Process Properties dialog are the same as in the On
Error tab in the Task Properties dialogs; see "Using the On Error tab" on page97.
About branches and conditions
While some processes can simply start with an input task, manipulate the data with a few action
tasks and finish with an output task, in some cases you may want to have more control over the
flow of your process. For example, you may want multiple outputs, such as printing to multiple
printers as well as generating a PDF and emailing it. To do this, you will need branches. You
may also want to detect certain criteria in your data and act differently depending on that data,
such as sending an email only when an email address is found, or printing to a different printer
depending on who sent you a print job. To do this, conditional branches ("conditions") are
used.
For the list of operations you can perform on Branches and Conditions, please refer to "The
Process area" on page870.
Branches
A branch is effectively a doubling of your job file (see "Job file" on page50). As your job file
goes down the process, when a branch is encountered, a copy of the job file will go in that
branch. In the branch, all tasks up to the Output task will be performed, before returning to the
main trunk to continue processes. You can have branches within branches, and all branches
must have an Output task. For more information on branches, see "Branch" on page465.
A branch is represented as a crossing:
Conditions
A condition will either execute the branch it creates or the main trunk, but never both. As your
job file goes down the process, when it encounters a condition it will verify whether that
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