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
l Record Set:Retrieves one or more Record Sets, including all their records. Output
similar to the Create Record Set task.
l Content Item: Retrieves one or more Content Items, whether or not they are part of
a Content Set. Output similar to the Create Print Content or Create HTML Content
Set tasks.
l Content Set:Retrieves one or more Content Sets, including all their content items.
Output similar to the Create Print Content task.
l Job:Retrieves one or more Jobs, including all their content items ready to be
printed. Output similar to the Create Job task.
l
Retrieve by:
l
Condition: Select entities based on one or more conditions, the value of a metadata
field for example.
l
Record ID: Select records based on their Record ID. This option is only available
when the entity to retrieve is a Record. Multiple records can be retrieved by entering
multiple Record ID's, each on a new line.
l Conditions:
l Add a condition:Click to add a new condition line. This adds the line to the current
condition level, by default with an AND operator.
l Switch conditions:Click to swap two conditions on the same level, or two groups
of conditions.
l Delete the selected condition:Click to delete the currently selected conditions in
the list.
l Clear the rule: Click to delete all rules in the list. Note:This cannot be undone.
l
Import a rule:Click to open the Browse dialog and load a Rules file. This will load
its rules into the list.
l
Export the rule:Click to open a Save dialog and save the Rules file to disk.
l Rule Viewer:Displays a text-based view of the condition using operators and
parentheses.
l Output Type group:
l Output IDs in Metadata:Select to only output minimal metadata containing the
entity IDs.
l Output records in Metadata:Select to output IDs as well as record details in the
metadata, useful for further sorting and filtering of the metadata.
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