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
OL Connect tasks
OL Connect tasks are available in PReS Workflow 8.0 and up. They are used specifically to
communicate with the Server component of PlanetPress Connect or PReS Connect and for
such purposes as creating record sets, generating contents and generating output.
All In One
The All In One task extracts data from the job file, merges the data with a Connect Designer
template, and creates print output. (See also: "OL Connect print jobs" on page103.)
This task is a combination of the 4 different OL Connect tasks that are normally used in
conjunction to generate Print output: "Execute Data Mapping" on page530, "Create Print
Content" on page523, "Create Job" on page512, and "Create Output" on page514.
Combining them in a single task makes creating Print content easier and faster, as the task is
optimized for this specific purpose. It exchanges less data with the server than the separate
plugins do and it has multi-threading support: it can produce the data set and content items in
parallel.
The task is build with 4 tabs that represent the main steps of the creation of a Print Output: Data
Mapping, Content Creation, Job Creation and Output Creation.
This task can be added as an Action task (see "Action Tasks" on page299) or as an Output
task (see "Output Tasks" on page549). Adding it as an Action task enables the process or
branch to continue after this task. An Output task is always located at the end of a process or
branch.
Note
When added as an Output task, the All In One plugin works asynchronously to the Workflow
process.
Task properties
Data Mapper Tab
The Data Mapper step generates a Record Set from a specific source: data mapping on the
appropriate source (Current Data File, Database or PDF/VT data file), Retrieving items from the
Connect Database (filter setting) or uses the current job Metadata. The resulting Record Set is
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