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
Input
The Job Processor plugin must be added to a Workflow job transfer process that starts with
an HTTP Server Input. The Job Processor plugin is the only other task in that process.
The action name of the HTTP Input task must match the last part of the URL for print job
submission, set in the OLConnect Send Printer Driver installer. By default this is olcs_transfer.
After the job is processed, the HTTP Server Input returns a reply from the Job Processor
plugin back to the OLCS Printer Driver in order to notify the user that the job has been
received successfully (or failed if an error occurred).
Note
It is strongly recommended that a single job transfer process for all OL Connect Send Printer
Drivers is created, using the domain or machine’s or user information to divert to any follow-up
processes.
This single transfer process can be set to "Self Replicating", so that parallelization is possible.
Processing
The Job Processor plugin receives a compressed PostScript file sent by the OL Connect Send
Printer Driver and communicates with the Printer Driver to ensure that all data has been
received correctly. If the Printer Driver has split the job into multiple chunks, the plugin
combines the chunks into one PostScript file.
License mode
Each incoming print job is checked against the license to determine if it can be handled in
licensed mode or in unlicensed mode.
If OL Connect Send is unlicensed, the plugin stores the incoming job in the target folder using
the specified file name, but it does not save any information in the database. The end user will
receive a message in the Notification Area (also called "system tray") confirming the unlicensed
status, and the printer driver will not request another web page.
In licensed mode, the plugin will store all relevant information about each job in the OL
Connect Send database. This database is a HSQLDB and is installed automatically.
Subsequent Workflow processes can use the information in the database for additional
processing (see "Get Job Data" on page544).
Whether OL Connect Send is licensed can be seen on the General tab of the properties dialog.
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