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 PDF/VT with Content Creation:Expects a PDF/VTfile as an input and executes
basic data mapping on the file. This is the same as using the passthrough option in
the Create Record Set task. Content Items are created automatically. When this
source is selected, the Content Creation tab is disabled.
l
Do not store records in database (faster): Persisting records in between Data Mapping
and Content creation is costly in terms of performance. In many instances, the user don't
need those records to be stored in the database once the job has been output. When this
option is selected, the Data Mapping and Content Creation processes run significantly
faster. It also have a significant impact on the cleanup service since it will not have to deal
with as many records.
However, if the option is checked, the user cannot do post-processing on the extracted
data since they are not stored in the database. For example, if the user intends to retrieve
data from the database and send them to a sorting/cleaning system of postal addresses,
this option should not be checked. If the user wants to add a field or edit existing data, it is
impossible unless such data is already in the database. The option is unchecked by
default.
Note
Once the All In One plugin has been executed with this option selected, any task that
attempts to access records in the database will fail.
Content Creation Tab
The Content Creation tab generates Content Items either by merging a Record Set with a
Template, or by processing a PDF/VTfile into individual content items.
l Template:Select the appropriate template or option to execute it:
l "None"filename:Select to skip Content Creation completely.
l "%o":Select to use a dynamic template name. Click on %o to change the
expression that determines the name of the template to use.
l Template Names:Select the appropriate template name from the list. Adding
templates is done from the Send to Workflow option in the Designer Module.
l Preview:Displays a preview of the output generated by the Print context of the selected
Template. Not available for the PDF/VTor dynamic template names.
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