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
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PPS/PSM Documents: Displays a list of PlanetPress Connect and PrintShop Mail
Design document that have been imported into PlanetPress Workflow. Right-click on a
document to access a drop-down menu that offers these choices:
l Insert Resident Document:Inserts a new Resident Document, which is a
placeholder for a PlanetPress Design document that resides exclusively on the
printer.
l Cut, Copy, Paste:Controls the clipboard.
l Delete: Deletes the document from the configuration, as well as the Workflow Tools
Working Folders.
l Refresh:Regenerates a PostScript Cache from the original document's PTKfile.
l Group, Ungroup: Triggers grouping functionality.
l Properties...:Displays the properties, which lets you see the form information and
select its default printing behaviors.
l Printer Queues:Displays a list of printer queues in your configuration. Right-Click on a
printer queue to access a drop-down menu that offers these choices:
l Insert Printer Queue: Creates a new printer queue in your configuration.
l Replace Printer Queue By:Replaces the currently selected printer queue with a
new one.
l Cut, Copy, Paste:Controls the clipboard.
l Delete: Deletes the printer queue from the configuration.
l Rename: Renames the printer queue.
l Group, Ungroup: Triggers grouping functionality.
l PSTest Page: Prints a test page in PostScript format. Useful for validating whether
the printer supports PostScript.
l Text Test Page:Prints a text-only test page on the printer.
l Properties...:Displays the printer queue properties.
Note
Deleting a component that is currently used by a process will cause this process to stop
working and trigger an error, until the task that causes the error is removed, or changed to
point to another existing component.
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