8.6

Activate or Deactivate a Process
All processes are Active by default, but you may make any PlanetPress Workflow process
Inactive as required. Because making a process active or inactive is a change in the
configuration, to make the change effective you will have to send the edited configuration to
your PlanetPress Workflow service (See "Send your Configuration" on page14).
To activate or deactivate a process:
1.
Right-click the process in question in the Configuration Components pane
2. Click Active to disable or enable the process.
3. Send your configuration.
Note
If you try to send a configuration that contains only inactive processes, the PlanetPress
Workflow Configuration program will ask you to confirm the operation (this can be
changed in the Notification User Options).
Convert a Branch to a Subprocess
To allow for maximum flexibility and backward compatibility with the subprocess feature, the
Convert to subprocess option lets users transform existing processes easily. This option is
available whenever a Branch task is selected; right-clicking on it will display the contextual
menu, which holds the Convert to subprocess option.
Selecting this option automatically creates a new subprocess, takes the branch and all of its
children tasks and inserts it in the new subprocess, including the branch task itself. In the main
process, the branch is removed and replaced with a GoSub action task referring to the newly
created subprocess.
Note
The Branch tasks options Backup job file, Backup job information and Backup emulation, are
also automatically passed to the subprocess, which means that, if the subprocess needs to use a
different emulation than the calling process, a Change Emulation task is required.
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