8.7
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 8.7.1
- 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 Types
- 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
- Additional Information
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Task Breakdown
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The HTTP Server Input task receives a request through the /getinvoice HTTPAction.
Because this task either returns an HTMLpage with an error message or a PDF, the
MIMEtype isAuto-Detect.
l It checks whether the invoice request exists by checking if the size of the file is less than
1kb using "File Size Condition" on page394. The condition returns "true"if the file is not
found:
c:\PlanetPress\archives\pdf\invoices\xmlget('/request[1]/values[1]/invoicenum
[1]',Value,KeepCase,NoTrim).pdf
Here, the xmlget()function grabs the invoicenum variable from the GET request, which
would be INV999999.pdf in the specified folder.
l If the file is not found, then a simple, basic HTMLpage is created indicating the invoice
was not found. For this, a "Create File" on page197 task will suffice, followed by the
Delete output task. As we've already mentioned in "HTTP Server Workflow" on page178,
deleting the data file only means you are not doing anything with it locally - it is still
returned to the client.
l If, however, the file is found, then it is loaded with the "Load External File" on page320
task, and then deleted (for the same reasons).
HTTP Brochure Request
This workflow builds on the knowledge acquired in "HTTP PDF Invoice Request" on the
previous page and uses a single process, but in this case it also uses a PlanetPress Design
document which merges the data received from a browser form with the document to generate
a PDFbrochure, which is sent via email.
Resources
l HTTPBrochureRequest.pw7 (PlanetPress Workflow Configuration)
l InformationBrochure.pp7 (PlanetPress Design Document)
Installation
l Download both files
l Open InformationBrochure.pp7 and send it to PlanetPress Workflow.
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