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The example above actually uses numbers that are much higher than our typical PlanetPress Capture user.
That is to say, a vast majority of our users will never have to worry about reaching the pattern limitation,
unless their implementation is missing important parts, such as the "cleanup" process. But this also means a
smaller minority of our users may require more than 20,000 patterns, so let's deal with this now.
Extending
There are actually 2 ways of dealing with extending the number of patterns using the currently available
tools, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Using separate PlanetPress Workflow servers and licenses.
In a scenario where there are multiple locations that use PlanetPress Capture and where neither pen nor
paper has any risk of being moved from one location to another, the easiest (but costlier) solution is to have
a separate installation of PlanetPress Workflow in each location. Each installation would be responsible for
its own documents and pens. The limitation here is that it would not be directly possible to send a page with
an existing pattern to another location (either via email in PDF or via courier), sign it there and send it back -
this would cause errors that would be hard to prevent and correct. In this scenario however, it's possible to
centralize the activation of pen licenses to one server, while keeping the pattern generation systems
separate.
Using Pattern Sequences
In the event where a single location generates all the patterns and this output *can* be split into multiple
logical zones, Pattern Sequences can be used. A Pattern Sequence is basically a "tag" that is added after
the pattern's identification (Pattern ID). When a Pattern Sequence is used, each Pattern Sequence can re-
use each of the 20,000 available patterns. "Zones", in this case, could refer to a specific region within a city,
or a whole city or a province, whatever fits your needs.
Pattern Sequences can be handled in 2 different ways: by attaching a Pattern Sequence to a specific pen, or
by attaching it to a specific PlanetPress Workflow process. Here is an example for each cases, using a
typical situation of a shipping company that uses PlanetPress Capture to simplify the archiving of the client's
signature on a "Confirmation of Reception" slip.
l Pen-Based Sequences: In this case, each pen is attributed a specific pattern sequence. When
documents are printed, they are set to attribute a pattern sequence to each document in relation to
which pen it will be signed on. For example, the shipping company may have decided to print each
"route" using the route number as a pattern sequence, and each pen is tagged (with a label) as being
for use with a specific pattern sequence also. Each morning, as drivers are attributed a route, they pick
up the correct pen and stack of paper that belong to their route before leaving.