2022.2
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 2022.2
- 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 variables
- Workflow add-ons
- About related programs and services
- About Tasks
- Adding tasks
- Editing a task
- Task properties
- Masks
- Selecting a resource file in task properties
- Input tasks
- Initial Input tasks
- Secondary Input tasks
- Properties common to all input tasks
- Available Input tasks
- Create File
- Email Input
- File Count
- Folder Capture
- Folder Listing
- FTP Input
- HTTP Client Input
- Input Error Bin
- Input SOAP
- LPD Input
- Merge PDF Files
- Microsoft 365 Email Input
- Microsoft 365 OneDrive Input
- NodeJS Server Input
- PrintShop Web Connect
- Secure Email Input
- Serial Input
- SFTP Input
- SMTP Input
- Telnet Input
- WinQueue Input
- Action tasks
- Add/Remove Text
- Advanced Search and Replace
- Barcode Scan
- Change Emulation
- Create PDF
- Database Query
- Decompress File(s)
- Digital Action
- External Program
- Load External File
- Logger
- Mathematical Operations
- Open XSLT
- PDF/A-3 Attachments
- Push to Repository
- Rename
- Run Script
- Search and Replace
- Send to Folder
- Set Job Infos and Variables
- SOAP Client plugin
- Standard Filter
- Translator
- XML/JSON Conversion
- Data splitters
- Process logic tasks
- Connector tasks
- Metadata tasks
- OL Connect Send
- OL Connect tasks
- All In One
- Create Email Content
- Create Job
- Create Output
- Create PDF/VT
- Create Preview PDF
- Create Print Content
- Create Web Content
- Download EML Messages
- Execute Data Mapping
- File Store - Delete File
- File Store - Download File
- File Store - Upload File
- Mark Connect Sets for Deletion
- Merge Jobs
- PDF to Bitmap
- Render Email Content
- Retrieve Items
- Set Properties
- Update Data Records
- Output tasks
- Document Management tasks
- Email Services
- Legacy tasks
- Unknown tasks
- 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
- SMTP Input 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
- Access Manager
- Access Manager hosts.allow File
- Activate a printer
- Advanced SQL Statement Dialog
- Data Repository Manager
- The Data Selector
- Data Selector display preferences
- The File Viewer
- LaserFiche Repository Output Task - Configure Tags
- LaserFiche Repository Output Task - Configure Templates
- PDF Viewer
- Printer utilities
- Process properties
- Rule Interface
- The PlanetPress Workflow Service Console
- Task Properties dialog
- Update document
- Virtual Drive Manager
- 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
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Database. (Nothing to configure.)
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XML.
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Cache XML data: When this option is selected, PlanetPress Watch/Server only reloads
the data if the size or modified date of the XML file changes. When this option is not selec-
ted, the XML data will be reloaded into memory every time that a plugin works on the data
file. Caching the XML data will make subsequent tasks run faster (as loading an XML file
can take a long time) but will also use up more memory since that memory isn't released in
between tasks. For single runs the performance gain is less noticeable than in loops (either
through a splitter, a Loop task or a metadata filter) where the XML file would be loaded
repeatedly.
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PDF. (Nothing to configure.)
Miscellaneous Tab
The Miscellaneous tab is common to all tasks.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in the Pro-
cess area.
Create PDF
The Create PDF Action task creates simple PDF files using the default quality. It is very similar to the
Digital Action task (see "Digital Action" on page375) but is more limited. It does not contain the
advanced PDF options that are offered by the PlanetPress Image solution (see "About PlanetPress
Image" on page279).
In PlanetPress Suite, this task can be used to merge a data file with a specific Design document and
output the result as PDF.
In Connect, merging a data file with a Connect template and outputting PDF is done using OL Connect
Print tasks (see "OL Connect tasks" on page494).
Alternatively this task may be part of a "PDF workflow": a workflow in which both input and output are
PDF and in which Metadata tasks are used to group, sort and sequence (split) the PDF data. (See
"PDF Workflow" on page228 for more information on this.) The Create PDF task will apply the active
Metadata to the PDF data file.
PDFs created with the Create PDF action task will effectively replace the current data file in any given
process using such a task.
Input
Any data file supported by PlanetPress Workflow, or a PostScript file.
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