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.
Output Tasks
Output tasks are exits from PlanetPress Workflow processes. They can be used to send data to specific
devices, such as printers, applications, such as email software, or locations, such as folders. A single
process can include multiple branches, each one terminated by an output task, and so a single process may
generate output via a variety of output tasks.
Typically, whenever PlanetPress Workflow sends an output task to an output device, application or location,
it considers its job finished. When it sends data to a printer, for example, it does not wait for the document to
have finished printing to consider its job done. In the same fashion, an email output task is completed once
PlanetPress Workflow has sent its message to the email software, not when the email has actually been
sent from the software. And in the case of a PlanetPress Image output task, PlanetPress Workflow
considers its job done once it has sent its request to PlanetPress Image, not once PlanetPress Image has
finished generating the actual image file.
Other tasks available in PlanetPress Workflow can be used to generate output, such as Digital Action,
Create VDX and PrintForm action tasks. Unlike output tasks, action tasks are only considered completed
once the output file has been generated. In the case of a Digital Action action task, for example,
PlanetPress Workflow will consider the task completed only once the image file has actually been created.
This means that no other task from the same process can be performed in the meantime. For more
information on those tasks, refer to Action Tasks.
Send to Folder tasks, which are considered as action and output tasks, are documented in the current
chapter.
Delete
Delete output tasks simply delete the job files they receive. They are often used after conditions to get rid of
those files that did not meet the requirements of the condition.
Input
Any data file, with optional metadata.