8.4
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 8.4.1
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PlanetPress Workflow
- About Branches and Conditions
- Configuration Components
- Connect Resources
- About Data
- About Documents
- Debugging and Error Handling
- The Plug-in Bar
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow Types
- About Tasks
- Task Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Properties
General tab
l FTP Server: Enter the IP address or host name of the FTP server to poll.
l User name: Enter the name of a user account on the FTP server.
l Password: If account named in the User name box is password protected, enter the password here.
l Port number: Set to use a specific port number. Note: There is no validation to ensure the port is
available. It is the user's responsibility to ensure the selected port is available and not being monitored
by another application or another PlanetPress Workflow task.
l Directory: Enter the path of the folder to poll on the FTP server. If this box is left empty, PlanetPress
Workflow will poll the root directory.
l Masks: Enter a single file name mask. Multiple entries are not allowed in this box.
l Connection mode group
l Active: Select to prompt the ftp client to use the active mode when retrieving files from the FTP
server.
l Passive: Select to prompt the ftp client to use the passive mode when retrieving files from the
FTP server.
"Other" Tab
l Job Information group
l Information elements:indicates what job infos are automatically created by the input task.
l Add lines before first data page:Using the arrows keys you can add any job information
directly at the beginning of your data file.
l Backup input files:Check this to save a copy of each data file that is captured by your input. These
files are saved in the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools working folders under the "Backup"folder.
l Backup filename:Enter the filename that you wish the input data file backup to be saved under.
l Delete Existing Metadata:Check to remove any metadata from memory. This option is disabled on
initial input tasks, and is checked by default on secondary input tasks.
Job Information definitions
l %1- User name:Contains the user name that was used to connect to the FTPserver. This is useful if
this task is used as a secondary input and the information is defined dynamically.
l %2 - FTPServer:Contains the FTP address of the server from which the files were retrieved.
l %3 - Source file name:Contains the name of the current file that was retrieved from the server.
l %4 - Folder:Contains the FTPfolder from which the current file was retrieved. This may differ from