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The Get Job Data plugin. Creating interactive processes for incoming print jobs requires that the
relevant information about the respective job is available and can be used in Workflow. This is
what the OL Connect Send Get Job Data plugin is made for. (See "Get Job Data" on page487)
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The Create Web Content plugin. Each web page served by an interaction process is generated
by this plugin. (See "Create Web Content" on page518)
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The Create Preview PDF plugin generates a PDF preview for a single record as fast as possible.
It is typically used for previews embedded in web pages. (See "Create Preview PDF" on
page511)
Production report process
The key plugin in a process that produces reports about jobs received with OL Connect Send is the Get
Data plugin. It allows to query the OL Connect Send database. (See "Get Data" on page483)
Sample project
The Ad Hoc Mail Consolidation sample project may help you understand the Workflow processes for
OL Connect Send and configure your own.
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Watch the sample in action on demo.objectiflune.com. Under Ad Hoc Mail Consolidation, click
Demo and follow the instructions. (If you have already installed the printer driver, you don't have
to do that again.) Add a Connect Send printer with the given settings and print the provided Word
file to that printer. The printer will trigger an interactive process on demo.objectiflune.com.
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Download the sample files from OL's Resource Center: http://help.objectiflune.com/en/#csend.
About variables
A variable is basically a keyword that points to specific location in your computer's memory. This loc-
ation contains data that you decide to place in it, by assigning that data to the variable name.
There are four types of variables that can be used in PlanetPress Workflow:
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Global variables are available to all processes and tasks within the configuration, and any modi-
fication made to them affects all tasks and configurations. For more information see "Global vari-
ables" on page243.
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Local variables are specific to an instance of a process. That is to say, when a process changes
the information in a local variable, it changes it only for that process and only for that specific
instance of the process. For more information see "Local variables" on page242.
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Job Infos are also specific to an instance of a process, however their use is different. Just after
an initial or secondary input task, Job Infos contain information about the job file itself. They are
generally used to gather information from the input task, or to transfer information to a Connect
template or PlanetPress Design document. For more information see "Job Info variables" below.
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