8.5
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 8.5
- System Requirements
- 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
- Variable Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
into 4 items that provide variable properties:
l Variables
l System: Contains system variables, also called "Standard Variables" on page537.
l Job Info: Contains Job Info variables from %1 to %9
l Local Variables: Contains a list of local variables in this process. If no local variables exist, this
item is disabled.
l Global Variables:Contains a list of global variables in this configuration. If no global variables
exist, this item is disabled.
l Control Characters:Contains a list of control characters that can be used in printers.
l
Get Data Value: Brings up the Data Selector, retrieves the value you select and places it in the
variable properties box. This information becomes static and does not change between each datapage
and job file.
l
Get Data Location:Brings up the Data Selector and records your selection. The data selection is
dynamic, meaning it will get the data located in the area you choose, every time a new data file passes
through it. This is indicated by a data selection (see "Data Selections " on page19).
l
Get Metadata Value:Brings up the Data Selector with only the Metadata tab visible and lets you
select the value (contents)of a Metadata attribute or field. The result is static and does not change
between jobs.
l
Get Metadata Location:Brings up the Data Selector with only the Metadata tab visible and lets you
select the location of the data. The result is variable and changes between jobs.
l Get Repository Value:Brings up the "Data Repository Manager" on page613 dialog to select the
value (contents)of a specific key. The result of the lookup is static.
l
Get Repository Location:Brings up the DataRepository Manager dialog to select the location of
the key to lookup every time this task is executed.
You can quickly identify variable information that is already present in your variable properties as such:
l A percentage sign identifies standard variables, as well as standard and custom job info variables —
%f, for example.
l A backslash indicates a control character — \004, for example.
l An at sign (@) indicates a data selection for emulations other than database — @
(1,1,1,1,17,KeepCase,Trim), for example.