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
not appear in the Configuration Components but it follows the data file and can be viewed from
the Metadata tab whenever the data file is viewed through the Data Selector.
Use Attached Document Preview
When sending a PlanetPress Design Document from PlanetPress Design to PlanetPress
Workflow, a PDFPreview of the job's output is automatically sent to PlanetPress Workflow
along with the Design Document. This preview appears under the Documents section of the
Configuration Components.
The PDFcontains the result of a preview with the active data file (for all data pages) run as an
Optimized PostScript Stream.
To view the Document Preview:
1.
Make sure the Documents section is visible by clicking the button if it appears.
2.
Expand the document (name.ptk) by clicking the button. The Document Preview has
the same name as the document but with a PDFextension.
3.
Right-click on the Document Preview, then click Open in PDFViewer.
To save the Document Preview to disk:
1.
Make sure the Documents section is visible by clicking the button if it appears.
2.
Expand the document (name.ptk) by clicking the button. The Document Preview has
the same name as the document but with a PDFextension.
3.
Right-click on the Document Preview, then click Save PDFFile.
Add Resident Documents in the Configuration Components Pane
By default, the Documents group displayed in Configuration Components pane of the
PlanetPress Workflow Configuration program includes all those documents that are available
on your local PlanetPress Workflow server. Those documents that are not available on your
localPlanetPress Workflow server, but that are either available on printers or on other
PlanetPress Workflow servers must added to the list, otherwise you will not be able to use them
in your PlanetPress Workflow configuration.
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