8.8
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 8.8
- 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
- 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
- PlanetPress Fax 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
In addition to attributes and fields, each node of type group, document or datapage has a
Boolean property called 'selected' that indicates whether or not to produce the pages under that
node. By default, this property is set to true for all nodes.
Metadata attributes reference
The Metadata attributes are categorized as either Production, Finishing or Index/Count.
Production attributes describe the production of the job and/or metadata (e.g. path and name
of the datafile, date at which metadata was created, etc.)
Finishing attributes describe the finishing intent (e.g. page dimensions, page orientation,
duplex mode, etc.).
Note
The presence of some finishing attributes depends on the PlanetPress Design document and target
device used when producing the job.
Index/Count attributes are not part of the original metadata file. They are evaluated live based
on the content of the metadata.
Note
Metadata Index/Count values are one-based when viewed in the user interface: the first element in
any collection has an index of 1 and the last element's index corresponds to the collection's length.
However, in the API and in metadata selections, they are zero-based: the first element in any
collection has an index of 0 and the last element's index corresponds to the collection's length minus
1. This means the zero-based value has to be used when retrieving metadata (see also: "Metadata
selections" on page30 and Rule Interface).
In the following table, the last 5 columns indicate at which level the corresponding attribute is
available. This also depends on the type of job, however. In the metadata file created for an OL
Connect job, only three levels are filled with actual data about the job: Job, Group and
Document.
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