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
Comments Tab
The Comments tab is common to all tasks. It contains a single text area (Task comments)that lets you
write comments about the task. These comments are saved when the dialog is closed with the OKbutton,
and are displayed in the Task Comments Pane.
Metadata Tasks
Metadata tasks regroups plug-ins that can create or update metadata for a job file.Metadata is a hierarchical
structure describing a print job. It is composed of 5 basic levels, from outer to inner: Job, Set, Document,
Datapage, and Page.
Create Metadata
Creates all the metadata that is either the result of the merging between a data file and a PlanetPress
Design document, or the information about a PDFFile.
Input
Either a data file in any supported Emulation, or a PDFFile.
Processing
If a data file and document are selected, the metadata is generated by merging the data file and document
and retrieving only the metadata generated by this merge. The Metadata levels will reflect those defined in
the document, including separation for Group and Document, metadata fields, etc.
l In PDF emulation, the size and orientation attributes for each page are set in the metadata. In all other
emulations, those attributes remain blank.
l In XML emulation, the metadata file is always created as if the user had specified the "Second Level"
parameter in PlanetPress Design.
If the "Do not use document (passthrough)"option is used, no PlanetPress Design document is used. The
metadata will contain a single Job, Group and Document level, as many data page levels as there are
records (pages in a PDF, XMLlevels, etc)in the file, and one page level per data page.