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included in the process are performed regardless of schedule, granted that the previous task
was performed.
The available processes in your PReS Workflow Configuration are listed in the "Configuration
Components pane" on page582. Processes in a configuration will always run concurrently.
You can schedule processes to run only at certain times or intervals (see "Process properties"
on page619).
There are three types of processes available to you:
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A normal process will run as soon as an input file is available through its input task or, if it
is scheduled not to run at that time, will start processing as soon as the schedule permits
it.
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Startup processes are processes that run only once before every other process in a
given configuration. They can be used to perform operations that need to be completed
once before the configuration can actually be run, such as to map network drives. You
may only have one single startup process in your configuration.
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Subprocesses are processes which can be called by any other process from any action
task. They can be used to perform and reuse redundant operations that may need to be
executed numerous times.
Process properties
Regular and startup processes can be set to be Active (process runs normally) or Inactive
(process will not run at all); see "Activating or deactivating a process" on page112.
To learn how to set other properties of processes, such as their schedule, see "Process
properties" on page619.
Special workflow types
PReS Workflow supports multiple input and output types, in so many different combinations
that it would be hard to give example processes for each possibility. However, some types of
processes like HTTP and PDF processes will probably be used more often than other types of
processes. You will find a description of each of these special workflow types and at least one
example of an implementation that uses them in the chapter: "Special workflow types" on
page174.
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