2022.2
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to PReS Workflow 2022.2
- 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
- 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 variables
- Workflow add-ons
- About related programs and services
- About Tasks
- Adding tasks
- Editing a task
- Task properties
- Masks
- Selecting a resource file in task properties
- Input tasks
- Initial Input tasks
- Secondary Input tasks
- Properties common to all input tasks
- Available Input tasks
- Create File
- Email Input
- File Count
- Folder Capture
- Folder Listing
- FTP Input
- HTTP Client Input
- Input Error Bin
- Input SOAP
- LPD Input
- Merge PDF Files
- Microsoft 365 Email Input
- Microsoft 365 OneDrive Input
- NodeJS Server Input
- PrintShop Web Connect
- Secure Email Input
- Serial Input
- SFTP Input
- SMTP Input
- Telnet Input
- WinQueue Input
- Action tasks
- Add/Remove Text
- Advanced Search and Replace
- Barcode Scan
- Change Emulation
- Create PDF
- Database Query
- Decompress File(s)
- Digital Action
- External Program
- Load External File
- Logger
- Mathematical Operations
- Open XSLT
- PDF/A-3 Attachments
- Push to Repository
- Rename
- Run Script
- Search and Replace
- Send to Folder
- Set Job Infos and Variables
- SOAP Client plugin
- Standard Filter
- Translator
- XML/JSON Conversion
- Data splitters
- Process logic tasks
- Connector tasks
- Metadata tasks
- OL Connect Send
- OL Connect tasks
- All In One
- Create Email Content
- Create Job
- Create Output
- Create PDF/VT
- Create Preview PDF
- Create Print Content
- Create Web Content
- Download EML Messages
- Execute Data Mapping
- File Store - Delete File
- File Store - Download File
- File Store - Upload File
- Mark Connect Sets for Deletion
- Merge Jobs
- PDF to Bitmap
- Render Email Content
- Retrieve Items
- Set Properties
- Update Data Records
- Output tasks
- Document Management tasks
- Email Services
- Legacy tasks
- Unknown tasks
- 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
- SMTP Input 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
- Access Manager
- Access Manager hosts.allow File
- Activate a printer
- Advanced SQL Statement Dialog
- Data Repository Manager
- The Data Selector
- Data Selector display preferences
- The File Viewer
- LaserFiche Repository Output Task - Configure Tags
- LaserFiche Repository Output Task - Configure Templates
- PDF Viewer
- Printer utilities
- Process properties
- Rule Interface
- The PReS Workflow Service Console
- Task Properties dialog
- Update document
- Virtual Drive Manager
- 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
OL Connect Send (see "OL Connect Send" on page481) needs one Workflow process to handle the
job transfer, and in licensed mode it needs at least one other process to interact with the user. Reports
about the use of OL Connect Send might be produced in yet another Workflow process. For examples
of these processes see "Workflow processes in a Connect Send solution" on page237.
PDF workflow
A PDF workflow uses a PDF as its job file and manipulations are generally made in the Metadata
instead of the PDF itself, since PDF files are much larger than most other data files compatible with
PReS Workflow. The Metadata Tools are extensively used in the example presented, which is a weekly
sales report sent to all the sales associates of a particular company branch. See the "PDF Workflow" on
page228 for more details.
PlanetPress Capture workflow (PlanetPress Suite only)
A Capture workflow is divided in two steps: Creating an output of documents containing the Plan-
etPress Capture Fields, and retrieving the information from the Anoto Digital Pen to merge it with the ori-
ginal documents. See "PlanetPress Capture Workflow" on page229 for more details.
SOAP workflow
As SOAP can be either a client or a server, two workflows will be presented. The SOAP Client workflow
presents PReS Workflow as the client and will explore how to retrieve WSDL information and how to
make a SOAP request as a client. The SOAP Server workflow will show how to create a process that
responds to SOAP requests, and where our own WSDL is located.
HTTP Server workflow
An HTTP Server workflow is one that has one or more processes that always start with the HTTP
Server Input task and returns something to a client using a web browser. Each process would have a
specific task referred to as an "action", called from the browser itself.
HTTP Server Input tasks are typically used in one of the two following situations:
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HTML Form Action: An HTML Form in the browser that may contain text and attached files can
be filled and sent to a process with the HTTP Server Input task.
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HTTP Data Submission: A custom application or a server sends the request to PReS Workflow
using either a POST or GET command. The application or server then waits for a response from
PReS Workflow.
PReS Workflow can serve both static and dynamic resources to a web browser, however it is not meant
to be used as a fully featured web server, as it is not built for responsiveness nor guaranteed uptime. It
is much better to have a common web server (for example, IIS or Apache) to serve your contents and to
have PReS Workflow available only to process things only it can do. For more information on how to
serve HTML and PDF generated by Connect through IIS, watch the Connect with Evie - IIS series.
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