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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Delete plugins from any custom category by using the Delete key.
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Revert to the default Plug-in Bar by selecting Reset to default.
To import a plugin:
1.
Click on the popup control ( ).
2. Click on Import Plugin.
3. Browse to the location of the plugin DLLfile.
4. Click on Open.
5. New plugins appear in the Uncategorized category.
About Printing
To print a document using PlanetPress Workflow, you can either use the Print using a Windows
Driver output task, or use a combination of a printer queue and a Printer Queue output task.
These tasks are created and defined using PlanetPress Workflow Configuration program.
The following types of printer outputs are available in PlanetPress Workflow Configuration
program:
l Local printing:
l Windows output queues let you send jobs to a local printer. See "Windows Output
Printer Queue" on page72.
l Send to Folder output queues let you save jobs to a local or network folder from
which they can be picked up and printed. See "Send to Folder Printer Queue" on
page76.
l Remote printing:
l FTP output queues let you upload jobs to an FTP site from which they can be
picked up and printed. See "FTP Output Printer Queue" on page74.
l LPR output queues let you send print jobs to remote printers via TCP/IP using the
LPR/LPD protocol. See "LPR Output Printer Queue" on page73.
l Windows Driver Printing:
l The Print using a Windows Driver output task lets you send a job to any printer
installed on the computer, using its own drivers. In this particular case, the printer
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