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
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Look at the Messages Area pane to see any message generated by the tasks that run
(See " The Message Area Pane" on page 543).
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Use the Debug Information pane to see the current value of any variable in your process
or globally, or to evaluate custom expression. See "The Debug Information Pane" on
page 542.
Debugging and Emulation changes
One of the most useful case where debugging is crucial is whenever the job file is converted to
another type of emulation, or if a new data file of a different emulation is used within the
process. For example, if a process starts with a Line Printer data file and the converts it into a
PDF, it is not possible to do any data selection on the PDFbecause the Line Printer emulation
is active by default. The debugging features can easily resolve this limitation.
The first method is used if your process has all the required tasks, but data selections after an
emulation change are necessary.
l Step through the process until you have reached the point after the emulation or data
change.
l Any data selection used in task properties after this point will use the new emulation.
l Continue stepping through each task until the end of the process to debug it.
This method does not allow you to add, remove or move tasks, however. The second method
can be used when that is required.
l Step through the process in debug mode until you reach the emulation or data change.
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Click on View as Text (or View as PDFif your data is PDF at this point) in the Data group
of the Debug tab.
l In the viewer that appears, save the file to a location on your hard drive.
l Stop the process, and select the file you saved as your process' data file.
l If you need to continue debugging your process after the emulation change, you can still
do it by using Skip on all the tasks until the emulation change, inclusively. Then use Step
or Run to continue debugging.
Lastly, PlanetPress Workflow 7.4 and higher also has a new option that can be used in
conjunction with the previous to avoid skipping through large processes:
l Step through the process until the emulation or data change, as in the first method.
l Save the data file locally and then select it as your sample data file, as with the second
method.
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