8.8

l Open HTTPBrochureRequest.pw7 and send the configuration to your local PlanetPress
Workflow service.
l Open your browser to http://localhost:8080/generatebrochure
Task Breakdown
l The HTTPServer Input receives the initial request from the browser.
l Because this is a demonstration, a backup is made of the XMLrequest. It's not suggested
to do this every time, especially on servers receiving a large number of requests, as these
files do take some amount of space for each request.
l Acondition checks whether the form has been submitted, by verifying that one of the
required fields is empty. If it is, it means this is the initial request, so the condition
becomes true.
l If this is the initial request, an HTMLpage is created which contains a form asking
the client for a required full name and email, and optional company name. A
checkmark also offers to subscribe to a newsletter (it is unchecked by default!). The
form submits back to the same URL, meaning it is handled by the same process.
l The file is renamed with the .html extension, so that both the HTTP service and the
browser will recognize it as an HTMLpage. And then, as usual, it is deleted (but still
returned to the browser).
l When the condition is false, it means that there is something in the Full Name field. In this
case, we know that the form was filled and submitted back to the process, and we handle
the request as such.
l First, we add the full name, email and company information to job informations, in order
for them to be available for the rest of the process.
l Then, we have a small condition that verifies if the user checked the "Newsletter"box. If
so, the conditional branch is triggered. Note that this condition is put inside its own branch
because otherwise, the rest of the process would not run when the newsletter is selected.
Since we want both to happen, the branch is there with a "stub"if the condition is false.
PDF Workflow
A PDFworkflow, in essence, is one that does not contain any PlanetPress Design document
and only uses PDFfiles as data files. In most cases, this also implies the use of Metadata, as
Metadata is used to establish boundaries between document, sort and sequence (split)the
PDF data into different parts.
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