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
different printers. To ensure consistency, you should consider filtering out such
characters.
About documents and variable data
"Variable data" is data that is meant to be merged with a document or template.
In PlanetPress Connect, variable data is usually retrieved from a data file (the job file) using
the OLConnect Execute Data Mapping task. This task uses a data mapping configuration file,
created with the DataMapper, to produce a record set. A data mapping configuration contains a
data model. Any Connect template constructed using the same data model can be merged with
the resulting record set by an OLConnect Create Content task.
In PlanetPress Suite, Design documents are typically associated with an Output task.
PlanetPress Workflow dispatches captured data (the job file) to PlanetPress Design documents
directly. It is therefore critical that a process and a document use the same emulation (see
"About data emulation" on page59). PlanetPress Suite users are advised to review the
PlanetPress Design User Guide, especially the Selecting an Emulation section.
Job file
Whichever source it may come from, a serial port, an e-mail message, or an LPR request, for
instance, and whatever its format, data entering a PlanetPress Workflow process via an Input
task is always referred to as a data file. When a data file enters a process, it becomes the job
file.
'Job file' however is a more general term, that can refer to data files as well as other types of
files traveling through a process. Image files, for example, can be passed from task to task in
order to be downloaded to a printer. So files traveling within a process are referred to as job
files.
A single job file can be the source of multiple job files. This is the case, for example, when a
process includes multiple branches, as each branch is given a duplicate copy of the job file
(see "About branches and conditions" on page135). This is also the case when a job file is
split into multiple smaller files by a Splitter Action task, for instance (see "Data splitters" on
page444).
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