8.6

To choose a sample data file:
1.
Click the Debug tab in the PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon.
2. Click on Select in the Data group.
3. Use the Data Selector to choose your sample data file and emulation options.
4. Click OK on the Data Selector.
PlanetPress Workflow also keeps the last 9 used data files in memory, which you can reopen to
use in the same process, or a different one.
To reopen a sample data file used previously:
1. Click the Debug tab in the PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon.
2. Click on Reopen Data File in the Data group.
3. Click on one of the data files in the list.
4. Use the Data Selector to change the emulation options if necessary.
5.
Click OK on the Data Selector.
Metadata
Metadata is a hierarchical structure describing a job. Simply put, metadata is data about data
or, in other words, information tagged to data. Metadata includes information about the data file
itself, the document, custom user fields and in some cases page properties and page counts.
Note
Applications or plugins created in PlanetPress Suite 6 and using Metadata will need to
be updated for use in version 8.6.1. No backward compatibility mode is available.
Warning
When a user-defined emulation is used with metadata, results and behavior are unknown
and unsupported. For instance, refreshing the metadata file may cause the document to
crash and/or corrupt. For this reason, it is strongly advised to create backup copies of
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