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
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 OKbutton, and are displayed in The Task Comments Pane.
Mathematical Operations
The Mathematical Operations action task resolves a mathematical expression and stores the result in an
existing job information or variable.
Note
When adding this task to your process, you will be asked if you want to add the task as an Action or a
Condition. This task should only be used as an Action. If used as a condition, it will always return
False.
The task does not modify the job file in any way, its only output is the change in the specified variable where
the result is stored.
Technical
The expression itself must be written in a format understood by the VBSCript scripting language. For
more information, please see Mathematical Functions in VBSCript and VBSCript Math Operators.
Input
Any active data file, in any format. This data file is ignored by the task and is not modified in any way.
Processing
The task executes the mathematical operation and stores the result in the selected job info or variable.
Output
The input data file is returned with no modifications. Metadata is not modified. Asingle job info or variable is
modified by this task.