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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 page60). 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 page137). 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
page452).
It is important to note that job files may be used as a helpful debugging resource (see
"Debugging and error handling" on page98).
Job file names are generated automatically and stored in the %f system variable (see "Job file
names and output file names" on the next page).
Actual data and sample data
The actual data is the dynamic data captured by PlanetPress Workflow at run-time. The sample
data file is a static sampling of the run-time data (see "Sample Data" on page71).
In the PlanetPress Workflow Configuration program, you use sample data files to create, edit
and debug PlanetPress Workflow configurations (see "Debugging your PlanetPress Workflow
process" on page106).
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