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cess area.
Generic Splitter
Note: This plug-in has been moved to the Legacy group.
The Generic Splitter is a legacy task which is kept for backwards compatibility. In previous versions of
PlanetPress Workflow, it was the only splitter available. While this splitter seems to have more options
than the other ones, this is only because it contains combined features from these other splitters.
Caution: The Generic Splitter, while seemingly more feature-rich, is slower than the other split-
ters by an order of magnitude. Whenever encountering the Generic Splitter, it is always recom-
mended to replace it with a more appropriate splitter instead.
Input
Any data file.
Processing
The file is separated into multiple chunks according to the rules set in the task's properties.
Output
Multiple data files, sent one after the other to the rest of the tasks in the process. Metadata, Job Infos
and other variables are not modified by this task.
Task properties
General Tab
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Split data file on: Use this box to choose the item on which top split the file. The options avail-
able depend on whether or not the Use emulation box is checked (see below).
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Use emulation: Check to emulate the data before splitting the file. This lets you split the file on a
word, a word change, a page number, a database field value or a database field change.
When this option is not checked, you can only split the file on a form feed, a specific number of
lines, or a chain of characters. See below for detailed information on any of these splitting meth-
ods.
With this option unchecked, data selections are done with the File Viewer. The File Viewer is like
a Data Selector (see "The Data Selector" on page713) without any data related options, such as
emulation settings. The only data formatting codes to which the File Viewer responds are line
breaks.
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