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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 pro-
cessing. You can combine the various PReS Workflow services to set up versatile automated pro-
cesses 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 plu-
gins 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 con-
tinuously 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 Ser-
vice. 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 versatile
automated processes to print jobs as well as generate other types of output (emails, web pages, files).
Note: A PReS Workflow configuration must be composed of at least one process, but it may
include as many as 512.
PReS Workflow cannot work without a valid configuration, and a PReS Workflow session running on a
given computer can only use one configuration at a time.
For a configuration created in the PReS Workflow Configuration tool to actually be executed by PReS
Workflow, it must be sent to the PReS Workflow Service. When you do this, your PReS Workflow for-
gets its previous configuration and starts executing the tasks included in the new configuration.
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