8.6
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 8.6.1
- System Requirements
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PlanetPress Workflow
- About Branches and Conditions
- Configuration Components
- Connect Resources
- About Data
- Data Repository
- About Documents
- Debugging and Error Handling
- The Plug-in Bar
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow processes
- About Tasks
- Task Properties
- Variable Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PlanetPress Workflow Button
- The Configuration Components Pane
- Components Area Sections
- Processes and Subprocesses
- Manipulate Global Variables
- Connect Resources
- PPS/PSM Documents
- Associate Documents and PlanetPress Printer Queues
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Rename Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reorder Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expand and Collapse Categories and Groups in the Configuration Components Pane
- Delete Objects and Groups from the Configuration Components Pane
- Other Dialogs
- The Debug Information Pane
- The Message Area Pane
- The Object Inspector Pane
- The Plug-in Bar
- Preferences
- Other Preferences and Settings
- General appearance preferences
- Object Inspector appearance preferences
- Configuration Components Pane appearance preferences
- Default Configuration behavior preferences
- Notification Messages behavior preferences
- Sample Data behavior preferences
- Network behavior preferences
- PlanetPress Capture preferences
- OL Connect preferences
- PDF Text Extraction Tolerance Factors
- General and logging preferences
- Messenger plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 1 plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 2 plugin preferences
- LPD Input plugin preferences
- Serial Input plugin preferences
- Telnet Input plugin preferences
- PlanetPressFax plugin preferences
- FTP Output Service preferences
- PlanetPress Image preferences
- LPR Output preferences
- PrintShop Web Connect Service preferences
- Editor Options
- The Process Area
- Zoom In or Out within Process Area
- Adding Tasks
- Adding Branches
- Edit a Task
- Replacing Tasks, Conditions or Branches
- Remove Tasks or Branches
- Task Properties Dialog
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting Tasks and Branches
- Moving a Task or Branch Using Drag-and-Drop
- Ignoring Tasks and Branches
- Resize Rows and Columns of the Process Area
- Selecting Documents in Tasks Links
- Highlight a Task or Branch
- Undo a Command
- Redo a Command
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
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 plugins that are not installed on that
system will cause these plugins to be replaced by unknown tasks. Installing the additional
plugins and re-opening the configuration will restore the plugins and their properties.
l Opening a configuration that contains plugins only available in PlanetPress Workflow
(such as Create PDF) from a PlanetPress Watch installation will cause these plugins 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 plugins 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 (yes, you can have mixed case in a file name but that's visual fluff - the
OSitself does not care).
Mask Format
Here are the different mask formats available:
l Literal characters:Any alphanumerical character is considered literal character and
must appear. For example, a mask of "trigger.txt"will not capture any other files than that
name.
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