2021.1
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PReS Workflow 2021.1
- 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
- Load balancing
- Associating PlanetPress Design documents and PReS printer queues
- Triggers
- Objectif Lune Printer Driver (PS)
- About processes and subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Run Script task
- APIs
- The Script Editor and XSLT Editor
- SOAP Server API Reference
- The Watch Object
- Data Repository API
- Metadata API
- Attributes
- Count
- Fields
- Index
- NodeType
- Parent
- Selected
- SelectedCount
- SelectedState
- Add(Integer Index)
- AttributeByIndex(Integer Index)
- AttributeByName(const String Name)
- Clear()
- Copy()
- Cut()
- DatapageCount()
- Delete()
- DocumentCount()
- FieldByIndex(Integer Index)
- FieldByName(const String Name)
- FieldByNameIndex(const String Name, Integer Index)
- IndexInDocument()
- IndexInGroup()
- IndexInJob()
- Item(Integer Index)
- PageCount()
- Paste()
- PasteAt(Integer Index)
- Select(TSelectWhat SelectWhat)
- SelectedDatapageCount()
- SelectedDocumentCount()
- SelectedIndexInDocument()
- SelectedIndexInGroup()
- SelectedIndexInJob()
- SelectedPageCount()
- Sort(const String Name, optional TSortFlags Flags, optional const String Name...
- Parameters
- Exceptions
- Parameters
- Exceptions
- Parameters
- Returns
- Parameters
- Exceptions
- Parameters
- Returns
- Exceptions
- Parameters
- Returns
- Parameters
- Returns
- Exceptions
- Parameters
- Returns
- Exceptions
- AlambicEdit API reference
- Stopping execution
- Special workflow types
- About Tasks
- Adding tasks
- Editing a task
- Task properties
- Masks
- Selecting a resource file in task properties
- Input tasks
- Action tasks
- Data splitters
- Process logic tasks
- Connector tasks
- PlanetPress Capture
- Metadata tasks
- OL Connect Send
- OL Connect tasks
- Output tasks
- Document Management tasks
- Connection tab
- Download tab
- Connection tab
- Upload tab
- Advanced properties
- Advanced properties
- Email Services
- Unknown tasks
- About variables
- Workflow add-ons
- About related programs and services
- 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 user interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PReS Workflow Button
- Configuration Components pane
- Components Area Sections
- 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
- 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
- Resize the rows and columns of the Process area
- Collapse and expand branches and conditions
- Undo a command
- Zoom in or out within the Process Area
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PReS Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- The PReS Workflow Service Console
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
Task properties
Any task you add to your PReS Workflow process must be configured using its Properties
dialog. It appears as soon as you add a task to a process, or when you double-click on a task.
Each task's Properties dialog will give you the options to configure that specific, individual task.
Properties of one task do not directly affect the properties of another task, however there are
some software preferences that may affect tasks in one way or another (see "Preferences" on
page766).
Each task has its own set of tabs available, though some tabs are common to most tasks.
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Most tasks have the General tab which lets you configure the main task properties for that
specific task.
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All tasks except for the InputErrorBin, Run Script, Open XLST and Comment tasks
have an On Error tab that lets you manage errors generated by the task. For a description
of the options that it contains, see "Using the On Error tab" on page99.
The error management system (the On error tab and the Error Bin Input task), however,
is only triggered when there is an error within the task functionality - that is, a plugin error.
These kinds of errors are triggered if the plugin cannot communicate with a service,
another task, if the plugin crashes, etc.
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All initial Input tasks have the Other tab which lists Job Infos (see "Job Info variables" on
page714) and lets you back up the job file (see "Job file" on page51).
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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 OK button, and are displayed in "The Task Comments Pane" on
page896.
Some Action, Create Content and Output tasks let you select a resource file to use with the
task; for more information see "Selecting a resource file in task properties" on page307.
Variable task properties
When you edit tasks, you may notice that some of the properties that you can modify have a red
(or more precisely, a maroon) title. This means that the property can be dynamically determined
whenever your process runs, that is to say it will not remain static. This can be extremely useful
when, for example, you want to determine how many copies you will print out depending on
your data, or what document will be used in the printout depending on the department it came
from.
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