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l Message:Enabled only when the Log Message option is checked. Enter a message that will be
logged in the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools' log file. You can use any variables available in
PlanetPress Workflow to customize the message.
l Store the message in variable:Select in which jobinfo, local or global variable you want to store the
message content.
l ID:Enter an error ID. This IDwill be visible in the Windows Event Viewer. However, the IDis not
visible in the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools' log file.
l Store the IDin variable:Select in which jobinfo, local or global variable you want to store the error ID.
l Reset to defaults:Resets all options in this tab to their default values.
If storing the message or ID, if they are store in a jobinfo they will be available in any error handling process
where errors are being forwarded. In all cases, if your process continues after the error, the contents of the
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.
Output Tasks
Output tasks are exits from PlanetPress Workflow processes. They can be used to send data to specific
devices, such as printers, applications, such as email software, or locations, such as folders. A single
process can include multiple branches, each one terminated by an output task, and so a single process may
generate output via a variety of output tasks.
Typically, whenever PlanetPress Workflow sends an output task to an output device, application or location,
it considers its job finished. When it sends data to a printer, for example, it does not wait for the document to
have finished printing to consider its job done. In the same fashion, an email output task is completed once
PlanetPress Workflow has sent its message to the email software, not when the email has actually been
sent from the software. And in the case of a PlanetPress Image output task, PlanetPress Workflow