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variables selected in this window will be available for the rest of your process, or whenever they are
overwritten.
Common Errors
Though some error messages are specific to a task in particular, others may apply to any and all tasks
because they are related more to the system than to PlanetPress itself. Some examples would be W3813,
W3830, W3991, W4005. These correspond to issues such as not having any space to write files, permission
errors on folders or files, etc.
Comments Tab
The Comments tab, added in PlanetPress Suite 7.5, is common to all tasks. It contains a single text area
(Task comments)that lets you write comments about the task. These comments are saved when the dialog
is closed with the OKbutton, and are displayed in The Task Comments Pane.
FTP Input
FTP Input tasks retrieve files from FTP sites using the FTP protocol. Masks are typically used to select
multiple files to be retrieved from the server.
Input
FTPInput connects to the specified FTPserver and path, and retrieves all files corresponding to the
specified mask. These files may be of any format, even formats that are not readable by PlanetPress
Workflow.
Processing
Each file capture by the input is sent down through the process, one at a time. When the file is finished, the
process goes back to the input which feeds another file down, as long as there are files in the queue. Once
all the files are gone, the task polls the FTPfolder again to see if new files are present and, if so, the process
continues with these files. Otherwise, the process ends.
Output
The output to this task is a series of individual files, one after the other. These files are not modified in any
way from when they are captured from the source FTPserver.