8.4

The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon
The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon centralizes commands, organizing them into a set of Tabs, each tab
containing groups of controls. Each tab on the Ribbon displays the commands that are most relevant to a
given feature set. The built-in Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar contain commands that are frequently used
and convenient to keep close at hand. You can minimize the Ribbon, and choose the position of the Quick
Access Toolbar, as well as the commands it displays.
l You can minimize the Ribbon by right-clicking on it and selecting Minimize the Ribbon.
l You can also customize the Ribbon's color scheme in the Preferences window.
The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon has five tabs: the Home tab, the View tab, the Debug tab, the Tools tab
and the Help tab. Each one of these tabs contains a series of groups, each group holding a number of
controls.
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The Home tab includes the Clipboard, Processes, Variables, Documents and Printer Queues
groups.
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The Clipboard group contains the typical Windows-based editing controls: Cut, Copy, Paste,
Select All, Delete.
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The Processes group contains workflow controls, allowing to insert new processes of any type
as well as controls to converts, activate or branches processes.
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The Variables group contains two controls to insert either a Global variables available
throughout the entire configuration, or Local variables available to the current process only.
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The Documents group contains the document controls, used to insert, refresh, update or delete
documents and document instances.
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The Printer Queues group contains controls to set up printer queues of any type, as well as
replace any existing queues.
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The View tab includes the Arrange, Navigate and Show/Hide groups.
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The Arrange group contains the Group/Ungroup, Sort by Name and Order controls, allowing
to reorder objects in the Configuration Components pane. It also includes the Undo/Redo
controls, as well as a Rename control, to modify a given component's name.
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The Navigate group contains a Processes control to select any existing process of the currently
loaded configuration, as well as a Highlight control to mark a given node, a Zoom Out for a
quick overview of the currently selected process, and Go to Child/Go to Parent to move around
a given process logical nodes (branches or conditions).