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
l Selection rectangle:Select whether your selection rectangle (used to select multiple
objects by dragging a rectangle around multiple objects)will be displayed as a dotted line
rectangle, or a blended rectangle (normally a blue rectangle with darker blue border).
l Button Style: Select whether to show the expansion links as either an arrow (points right
for a closed tree, down for an open tree)or a square (shows a minus symbol for an open
tree, plus symbol for a closed tree).
l Show Tree Lines:Check to choose whether or not to display the lines that connect the
different objects in the Configuration Components pane.
l Show Grid Lines:Check to choose whether or not to display grid lines between each
object in the Configuration Components pane.
l
Hot track:Check to choose whether or not to display the object in the Configuration
Components pane under the mouse cursor as being underlined.
l
Reset To Defaults button:Click to reset all the Configuration Components pane
appearance options to their default values.
Default Configuration behavior preferences
l
Use default configuration:Check to use default input and output tasks when you create
a new process. If this group is not selected, each new process you will add will begin and
end with unknown tasks.
l
Default input task: Select an input task to use as the default input task when you
add a new process. Click the Configure button located to the right of this box to set
the properties of the selected input task.
l
Default output task: Select an output task to use as the default output task when
you add a new process. Click the Configure button located to the right of this box to
set the properties of the selected output task.
l
Enable Undo/Redo functionality: Select this option to enable or disable the Undo
functionality. Disabling the Undo/Redo functionality frees up a lot of memory and may
thus speed up your system. The maximum number of steps performed is set in the box
below.
l
Auto Save every: Select to enable the Auto Save functionality. The auto save delay is
set in the box below (in minutes).
l
Enable printer information validation when opening a Watch configuration file: If one
of the processes in the configuration file contains a Print using a Windows printer driver
plugin, the printer information (printer name, driver size and version) will be checked and
the update process will be performed as required.
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