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
Comments Tab
The Comments tab is common to all tasks. It contains a text area (Task comments)that lets
you write comments about the task. These comments are saved when the dialog is closed with
the OKbutton, and are displayed in the Task Comments Pane.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in
the Process area.
Metadata Sequencer
Although the Metadata Sequencer acts as a splitter, the data file itself remains untouched, as
neither the data nor the Metadata are actually being split through this task. With each
sequence, the entire data file still gets carried from one task to another. Metadata records are
simply selected/deselected, which has the same effect.
For more information about Metadata see "Metadata" on page67.
Note
When using a PlanetPress Design document as input, the PDF Splitter will do the job quicker
than the Metadata Sequencer task. However, when using a PDF as input, the Metadata Sequencer
might perform better. For more information and some test results, see this How-to: Performance
testing grounds.
Input
Any data file with accompanying Metadata.
Processing
A loop is established and the Metadata is separated into chunks, as defined in the rules set
forth in the task properties.
Output
The original data file is output once per chunk, along with this chunk's metadata. Note that all
the Metadata is in each of the sequence, but anything not part of the sequence is disabled and
is ignored by all tasks using Metadata afterwards.
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