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
l Field indicates a data selection for a database emulation — field(1,0,0,'Billing_
Email',KeepCase,NoTrim), for example.
l The lookup()function indicates a lookup in the "Data Repository Manager" on page613.
Unknown Tasks
An unknown task is a task location that is not linked to any existing known task. Unknown tasks can have
multiple causes:
l Cutting an input or output task will replace it with an unknown task. See Cutting, Copying and Pasting
Tasks and Branches
l Creating a new branch will create an unknown output task in that branch. See Adding Branches.
l Using Branch From Here... will create an unknown output task below that branch. See Adding
Branches.
l Opening a configuration that contains additional plug-ins that are not installed on that system will
cause these plug-ins to be replaced by unknown tasks. Installing the additional plug-ins and re-
opening the configuration will restore the plug-ins and their properties.
l Opening a configuration that contains plug-ins only available in PlanetPress Workflow (such as Create
PDF) from a PlanetPress Watch installation will cause these plug-ins to be replaced by unknown
tasks. Opening the configuration in a PlanetPress Production or Office installation up upgrading
PlanetPress Watch to PlanetPress Production or Office and re-opening the configuration will restore
the plug-ins and their properties.
Masks
A file name that includes characters meant to be replaced at run-time is referred to as a mask. Masks can be
used in many edit boxes and can be used, for instance, to select multiple files. File selection is typically
limited by fixed characters or special wildcard characters. If you create a Folder Capture input task and
enter *.* in the Masks box, the input task will grab all the files that are put in the source folder. If you enter
*.mdb instead, the task will only take the those database files that have an mdb extension. You can use any
standard wildcard character in PlanetPress Workflow.
Technical
Masks are case-insensitive, since the Windows platform does not support case-sensitive file names