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
Workflow processes in a Connect Send solution
OL Connect Send (see "OL Connect Send" on page436) needs one Workflow process to
handle the job transfer, and in licensed mode it needs at least one other process to interact with
the user. Reports about the use of OL Connect Send might be produced in yet another
Workflow process.
Each OL Connect Send solution will require the Workflow processes to be configured
differently, but certain plugins will always be part of the solution.
Job transfer process
The Workflow process that handles the job transfer starts with an HTTP Input task. The action
name of this HTTP Input task must match the last part of the URL for print job submission set in
the printer driver installer (by default: olcs_transfer).
The Job Processor plugin is the only other task in this Workflow process (see "Job Processor"
on page445).
Interactive process
When a job is received in licensed mode, an interactive process is started. This process, which
may consist of several Workflow processes, serves web pages to the customer and handles the
customer's response, changing (settings for) the print job.
A few of the key components in this process are:
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The HTTP Server Input plugin. The interactive process start with this plugin. The action
name of this HTTP Input task must match the HTTP action for interaction given in the
Connect Send Printer Driver installer (by default: olcs_interaction). (See HTTP Server
Input.)
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The Get Job Data plugin. Creating interactive processes for incoming print jobs requires
that the relevant information about the respective job is available and can be used in
Workflow. This is what the OL Connect Send Get Job Data plugin is made for. (See "Get
Job Data" on page441.)
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The Create Web Content plugin. Each web page served by an interaction process is
generated by this plugin. (See Create Web Content.)
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The Create Preview PDF plugin generates a PDF preview for a single record as fast as
possible. It is typically used for previews embedded in web pages. (See Create Preview
PDF.)
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