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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The Navigate group contains a Processes control to select any existing process of
the currently loaded configuration, as well as a Highlight control to mark a given
node, a Zoom Out for a quick overview of the currently selected process, and Go to
Child/Go to Parent to move around a given process logical nodes (branches or
conditions).
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The Show/Hide group contains four controls to display or hide any of the four
panes; the Configuration Components pane, the Object Inspector pane, the
Message pane, the Debug Info pane and the Plug-in Bar.
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The Debug tab includes the Data, Debug and Debug Messages groups.
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The Data group allows to associate a sample data file to the currently selected
process, as well as update or replace it, and display it in its text/PDF or
Hexadecimal format.
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The Debug group contains the debugger's controls, allowing to execute a process
step by step, skipping over or ignoring certain tasks, as well as setting up
breakpoints and resetting variables values. This group also includes the Send
Configuration button, necessary to push the current configuration to PlanetPress
Workflow service.
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The Debug Messages group contains two controls to either clear or save the
contents of the Messages pane.
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The Tools tab includes the Managers, Services and Test Page groups.
l The Managers group contains:
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The Install PostScript Font control allows to install a PostScript font into your
PlanetPress Workflow installation.
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The Virtual Drive Manager control loads the Virtual Drive Manager.
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The Access Manager control loads the Access Manager, allowing to
grant/remove permissions to hosts.
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The Check for updates control, used to update the current PlanetPress
Workflow version.
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The Launch Upgrade Wizard control, used when migrating from a previous
PlanetPress Workflow version.
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The Services group contains:
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The Services Status control allows to start, pause and stop PlanetPress
Workflow service.
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