2018.2
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
 - Welcome to PReS Workflow 2018.2
 - 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
 - Load balancing
 - Associating PlanetPress Design documents and PReS printer queues
 - Triggers
 - Objectif Lune Printer Driver (PS)
 
 - About processes and subprocesses
 - Using Scripts
 - Special workflow types
 - About Tasks
 - About variables
 - Special workflow types
 - About related programs and services
 
 - The user interface
- Customizing the Workspace
 - PReS Workflow Button
 - Configuration Components pane
- Components Area Sections
 - Process properties
 - PlanetPress Design document properties
 - Moving and copying configuration components
 - 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...
 - Deleting something from the Configuration Components pane
 
 - 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 plugin preferences 1
 - HTTP Server Input plugin preferences 2
 - LPD Input plugin preferences
 - NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 1
 - NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 2
 - NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 3
 - 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
- Cutting, copying and pasting tasks and branches
 - Highlight a task or branch
 - Disabling tasks and branches
 - Moving a task or branch using drag-and-drop
 - Redo a command
 - Removing tasks or branches
 - Replacing tasks, conditions or branches
 - Resizing the rows and columns of the Process area
 - Undo a command
 - Zoom in or out within Process Area
 
 - The Quick Access Toolbar
 - The PReS Workflow Ribbon
 - The Task Comments Pane
 
 - Additional Information
 - Copyright Information
 - Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
 
Example
This example results in expanding the string of the variables to the date value in the following
format: “YYYY-MM-DD”.
VBScript
Dim s
s= Watch.ExpandString("%y-%m-%d")
Watch.Log "Current Date is: " + s, 2
JavaScript
var s;
s= Watch.ExpandString("%y-%m-%d");
Watch.Log("Current Date is: " + s, 2);
Python
s= Watch.ExpandString("%y-%m-%d")
Watch.Log("Current Date is: " + s, 2)
Perl
$s = $Watch->ExpandString("%y-%m-%d");
$Watch->Log("Current Date is: " . $s,2);
Watch.Log
Creates messages that are added to PReS Workflowwatch.log file. PReS Workflow watch.log
file is located in ...\Program Files\PReS Workflow 7\PlanetPress Watch\Log\ppw[log date].log.
View error messages in the Services Console while PReS Workflow is in Run mode by
choosing Tools | Services | Service Console. In the Service Console, error messages appear
with colors that correspond to the message level.
Level Type Text Color in Service Console
1 Error Red
2 Warning Orange
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