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Note
The sample job file should generally be the exact same format as the data that you will
receive when PlanetPress Workflow is processing the job at run-time. For more
information on how to capture your sample data file properly, please refer to the
PlanetPress Trigger and Data Capture Guide.
Debugging can be run in different ways:
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From the Debug tab, click on Step. This executes only the first task in the process and
waits for further action.
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From the Debug tab, click on Run. This executes the complete process, step by step,
until it is completed.
l Right-click on any task in the process and click Run from Here or Step from Here.
These actions are the same as using the debug Step and Run buttons, but will execute
the process only starting from that task forward.
While stepping through a process (using Step, not Run):
l Double-click on any task to change its properties. If you change the properties of a task
before you step through it, those new properties will be used when the task is executed.
Note that you cannot modify the process itself while in debug mode (you cannot add,
delete or move tasks, change branches and conditions, etc).
l Click on Skip to ignore the next task or branch and go to the next one. The job file is not
modified in any way.
l Click on View as Text in the Data group of the Debug tab to view the current job file
using a text editor (Notepad by default).
l Click on View as PDFto view the current job file in Adobe Acrobat if it is present (this will
work only for PDFjob files).
l Click on View Metadata to open the data selector and see the current state of the
process' Metadata.
l Click on View as Hex to view the current job file in the internal Hex editor.
l Click on the Stop button to stop the debugging process. If you use Run, Step or Skip
after stopping the process, debugging starts over from the top.
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