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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.
Use Cases
Use Case 1: Send Personalized Emails with Promotional Document Attached
A PlanetPress Connect document takes as input a PDF file as the input data file, and reproduces it exactly
as it enters. The document also contains a custom data selection set to hold an email address.The data
selection's value is given by a Metadata Field called'Email'.The value of this Emailmetadata field isa
region from the sample data file representing the customer number. At production time, the Lookup in
Microsoft® Excel® Documents action task will replace the value of this metadata field with the
corresponding customer email.
Use Case 2: Translate a list of line items descriptions into a given language
A PlanetPress Connect documenttakes as input a transactional PDF file, and reproduces it exactly as it
enters. Metadata fields called ItemDesc are created, one for each line item description, at the datapage
level. Each ItemDesc metadata field is given the value of a line item description as found on a region of the
current data page. The line item descriptions appearing on the resulting page produced by the design tool
are custom data selections whose valuecome fromthe correspondingItemDescmetadata fields. The
Lookup in Microsoft® Excel® Documents action task updates the value of all 'ItemDesc' metadata fields
with their corresponding foreign language descriptions.
Microsoft® Word® Documents To PDF Conversion
The Microsoft® Word® to PDFaction task can be used to convert a Word® document into a PDFfile that
can be used in your PlanetPress Workflow process. It can also do a Mail Merge as it runs the task.