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
This task is put into effect in the following example process: "Example: Daily sales report from PDF
files" on page228.
Input
This task captures all of the PDF files present in a specific folder, in one operation.
The Merge PDF Files Input task performs just like any other Input task: once the process has com-
pleted, control is transferred back to the Input task one last time to check if new files meeting the mask
have come in. This means that the merging of PDF files that are not all present at the start of the pro-
cess may take several passes, which may have an adverse effect on the overall performance and the
size of the resulting PDF.
Processing
Once all PDF files are captured, their original copies are deleted from the input folder (or tagged as
Archive if this option is selected) and they are merged into a single PDF. This is done in a single oper-
ation, not incrementally, meaning the file is built once and, if the option is chosen, optimized once.
Output
A single PDF containing as many pages as all the combined input PDFs is generated. If the option is
selected, this PDF is optimized. An optional Metadata file is also created, containing information about
the PDFs. This Metadata is divided in such a way that each PDF file is its own document, which can
contain multiple data pages.
Task properties
General Tab
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Folder: Enter the full path of the folder from which the input files are to be taken.
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Masks: Enter a single or multiple file names or use file name masks. See "Masks" on page291.
Since this task only supports PDF files, make sure your extension remains .PDF for all your
masks.
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Sort files by: Select a given sorting method to prompt PReS Workflow to sort the files in the
source folder before taking them (and thus to take them in a specific order). Select None to let
PReS Workflow take the files without sorting them first.
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Sort order: If you selected a sorting method in the Sort files by box, select the order in which
you want the files to be sorted.
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Use archive attribute: Select to turn on the archive attribute of the data files found in the source
folder and to leave them in their original location (i.e. to take copies of the source files). Note that
PReS Workflow never takes source files that have their archive attribute turned on (so the source
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