2018.1
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PReS Workflow 2018.1
- Installation and setup
- Basics
- Features
- About Workflow Configurations
- Workflow Configuration resource files
- About data
- Data Repository
- Debugging and error handling
- About printing
- OL Connect print jobs
- PlanetPress Suite print jobs
- PReS Workflow printer queues
- Shared printer queue properties
- Windows Output printer queue
- LPR Output Printer Queue
- FTP Output Printer Queue
- Send to Folder printer queue
- Triggers
- Load balancing
- Objectif Lune Printer Driver (PS)
- Associating PlanetPress Design documents and PReS printer queues
- About processes and subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special workflow types
- About Tasks
- About variables
- Workflow add-ons
- About related programs and services
- The Interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PReS Workflow Button
- Configuration Components pane
- Components Area Sections
- Process properties
- PlanetPress Design document properties
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Renaming objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reordering objects in the Configuration Components pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expanding and collapsing categories and groups in the Configuration Component...
- 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
- PReS Fax plugin preferences
- FTP Output Service preferences
- PReS Image preferences
- LPR Output preferences
- PrintShop Web Connect Service preferences
- Editor Options
- The Process area
- Zoom in or out within Process Area
- Adding Branches
- Replacing tasks, conditions or branches
- Removing tasks or branches
- Task Properties dialog
- Cutting, copying and pasting tasks and branches
- Moving a task or branch using drag-and-drop
- Disabling tasks and branches
- Resize rows and columns of the Process Area
- Selecting a resource file in task properties
- Highlight a task or branch
- Undo a command
- Redo a command
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PReS Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Additional Information
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
form submits back to the same URL, meaning it is handled by the same process.
l The file is renamed with the .html extension, so that both the HTTP service and the
browser will recognize it as an HTML page. And then, as usual, it is deleted (but still
returned to the browser).
l When the condition is false, it means that there is something in the Full Name field. In this
case, we know that the form was filled and submitted back to the process, and we handle
the request as such.
l First, we add the full name, email and company information to job informations, in order
for them to be available for the rest of the process.
l Then, we have a small condition that verifies if the user checked the "Newsletter" box. If
so, the conditional branch is triggered. Note that this condition is put inside its own branch
because otherwise, the rest of the process would not run when the newsletter is selected.
Since we want both to happen, the branch is there with a "stub" if the condition is false.
PDF Workflow
A PDF workflow, in essence, is one that does not contain any Connect template or Design
document and only uses PDF files as data files. The idea is that a PDF file, because it is a
formatted document in and of itself, doesn't need to go through a merge process before it can
be printed.
PReS Workflow provides a few tasks specifically designed to work with PDFs:
l "Merge PDF Files" on page234
l "PDF Splitter" on page335
l "Create PDF" on page269
In most cases, this kind of workflow also implies the use of Metadata tasks (see "Metadata
Tasks" on page418).
You can use Metadata tasks to group, sort and sequence (split) the PDF data. The Create PDF
task will apply the active Metadata to the PDF data file before creating the PDF output.
Things to keep in mind while working with Metadata are set forth in another topic: Working with
Metadata.
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