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
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No balancing: No load balancing means that all the selected printer queues get
everything.
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Split job: Split job means that jobs will be split according to the criteria set in the
Page delimiter group (see below) and that an equal share of the job file will be sent
to each one of the selected printer queues. For a hundred page job, for example, if
two queues were selected, each one will get 50 pages.
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Queue balancing: Queue balancing means that jobs will be split according to the
criteria set in the Page delimiter group (see below) and that a share of the job file
corresponding to each printer’s capacity (as set in the PlanetPress Workflow
Printer Queue Options dialog box—See "Print Using a Windows Driver" on
page584) will be sent to each one of the selected printer queues. If two queues
were selected, the first one sending jobs to a printer that prints 500 pages a minute,
and the second one sending jobs to a smaller printer printing 50 pages a minute, the
first queue will receive roughly ten times more pages than the second one.
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Round robin: Round robin means that complete jobs will be sent in turn to each
one of the selected printer queues. For example, Queue_1 will get the first job,
Queue_2 will get the second job, and so forth.
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Page delimiter group:These options are enabled when you choose Split job or Queue
balancing load balancing options. They are used to determine how each job is to be split
before being sent to the printer queues.
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Form feed: Cuts the job file at every form feed character.
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Lines per page: Cuts the job file after the specified number of lines.
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Keyword: Cuts the job file after each occurrence of the specified keyword (string of
characters).
l Custom Trigger: Enter the code of the trigger that will be sent with the data to the
selected printer queues. Note that this box is only enabled if None was selected in the
General tab.
l Add job information to the document:Includes the current JobInfos to the job output.
This option is only available if a document was selected in the General tab.
l Use job name as Title:Uses the Job Name set in the Printer Queue's General tab, as the
job's title, set as %%Title in the postscript's job.
On Error Tab
The On Error tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found in the" Task Properties Dialog"
on page731.
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