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
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All events with details: Select to log everything that happens in PlanetPress Workflow. This
includes when it starts and stops, the success and failure of tasks, and details on the success
and failure of tasks.
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Add time stamp to all processes events:
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Delete log files after: Select how many days log files are kept before being deleted.
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Maximum numbers of replicated processes:
Messenger Plug-In Preferences
Apart from enabling communication between the various parts of PlanetPress Workflow, the PlanetPress
Workflow Messenger also manages local instances of the PlanetPress Workflow Alambic.
Preferences
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PlanetPress Alambic options group
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Let me set up how many instances to run: Select this option if you want to limit the number of
instances of the Alambic that PlanetPress Workflow can run. Then enter the number of
instances, a value ranging from 1 to 32, in the box below. When this option is not selected,
PlanetPress Workflow starts a minimum of three instances and a maximum of eight, based on
the number of CPUs available on the server. Note that this does affects self-replicating
processes. Self-replicating processes will create threads in PlanetPress Workflow service, while
Alambic threads are under the PlanetPress Messenger service.
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Close inactive instances after: If you want the PlanetPress Workflow Messenger to close
inactive instances of the Alambic after a given number of minutes, enter a value in this box. Enter
a value of ”0” if you do not want the Messenger to terminate idle instances of the Alambic.
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Logging options group
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Delete log files after: Enter the number of days after which to delete the Messenger service logs.
Each log covers a 24-hour period and is kept in the Log folder, which is located in the installation
folder.
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Verbose log: Select this option if you want the log to contain a maximum amount of information.
HTTP Server Input 1 Plug-In Preferences
HTTP server input 1 plug-In preferences control the server protocol aspects of the PlanetPress
WorkflowHTTP Server Input tasks. This is where you enable and configure secure communication for the