2019.2

Features
PReS Workflow configurations are input driven applications designed to output data in a variety
of ways through diverse means to various applications and devices. PReS Workflow can be
used as simple go between, passing along input data to output devices, but it can also perform
various types of data processing. You can combine the various PReS Workflow services to set
up versatile automated processes to print jobs as well as generate other types of output.
PReS Workflow processes act as sorts of dispatchers. On the one hand, they retrieve data and
control plugins that retrieve data from watched locations, and on the other hand they send data
and control plugins that send data to various devices, for printing or to generate documents that
can then be emailed or viewed in a browser. PReS Workflow can also perform a variety of
operations on the data using its action plugins.
In fact, the PReS Workflow plugin based architecture enables almost limitless customization.
You can create or purchase compatible plugins, drop them in any of PReS Workflow plugin
folder and use them to perform other operations. You can even find free unsupported plugins on
the Objectif Lune Web site.
PReS Workflow tasks are service applications, or if you will, applications that continuously run
on a given computer and that perform actions automatically. Those actions are defined in a
PReS Workflow configuration. A given computer can only run one PReS Workflow
configuration at a time. The PReS Workflow Service Console may be used to monitor the
services running on a given computer.
About Workflow Configurations
PReS Workflow Configurations are service applications, or if you will, input driven applications
that continuously run on a given computer and perform actions automatically. Those actions are
defined in a PReS Workflow configuration file. A configuration file consists of a set of
processes, subprocesses, variables, (optional) documents and printer queues, that work
together within the PReS Workflow Service. A process can be used as simple go between,
passing along input data to an output device or folder, but it can also perform various types of
data processing.
You can combine the various PlanetPress Workflow input, action and output tasks to set up
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