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PlanetPress Suite users may use documents made with PlanetPRess Design. For the user
guide, see http://help.objectiflune.com/en/planetpress-design-user-guide/.
The product-specific files need to be sent to, or imported into, Workflow before they can be used in con-
junction with a task (see "Workflow Configuration resource files" on page38). They become visible in
the "Configuration Components pane" on page692.
Features
PlanetPress Workflow configurations are input driven applications designed to output data in a variety
of ways through diverse means to various applications and devices. PlanetPress Workflow can be used
as simple go between, passing along input data to output devices, but it can also perform various types
of data processing. You can combine the various PlanetPress Workflow services to set up versatile
automated processes to print jobs as well as generate other types of output.
PlanetPress Workflow processes act as sorts of dispatchers. On the one hand, they retrieve data and
control plugins that retrieve data from watched locations, and on the other hand they send data and con-
trol plugins that send data to various devices, for printing or to generate documents that can then be
emailed or viewed in a browser. PlanetPress Workflow can also perform a variety of operations on the
data using its action plugins.
In fact, the PlanetPress Workflow plugin based architecture enables almost limitless customization.
You can create or purchase compatible plugins, drop them in any of PlanetPress Workflow plugin folder
and use them to perform other operations. You can even find free unsupported plugins on the Objectif
Lune Web site.
PlanetPress Workflow tasks are service applications, or if you will, applications that continuously run on
a given computer and that perform actions automatically. Those actions are defined in a PlanetPress
Workflow configuration. A given computer can only run one PlanetPress Workflow configuration at a
time. The PlanetPress Workflow Service Console may be used to monitor the services running on a
given computer.
About Workflow Configurations
PlanetPress Workflow Configurations are service applications, or if you will, input driven applications
that continuously run on a given computer and perform actions automatically. Those actions are
defined in a PlanetPress Workflow configuration file. A configuration file consists of a set of processes,
subprocesses, variables, (optional) documents and printer queues, that work together within the Plan-
etPress Workflow Service. A process can be used as simple go between, passing along input data to
an output device or folder, but it can also perform various types of data processing.
You can combine the various PlanetPress Workflow input, action and output tasks to set up versatile
automated processes to print jobs as well as generate other types of output (emails, web pages, files).
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