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JSON to XML: the task only converts JSON files to XML.
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XML to JSON: the task only converts XML files to JSON.
Miscellaneous Tab
The Miscellaneous tab is common to all tasks.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in the Pro-
cess area.
Data splitters
Splitter action tasks are used to split single data files into multiple data files.
Splitters initiate a recurring cycle that stops only when the original file has been completely processed.
When a given splitter creates a file, it hands it down to the task that follows, and all the tasks on the
same branch are performed until the output task. Then the splitter task creates yet another file that is
again handed down to the next task, and so forth until the cycle ends (when there is no more data in the
original file).
In PlanetPress Suite, such tasks can be used, for example, to split files that contain statements for mul-
tiple clients into smaller files that each contain a single client statement. Each statement can then be
printed and sent by snail mail, or emailed directly from PReS Workflow, to each individual client.
Note that if the process merges the split data with a PlanetPress Design document, the splitter must not
alter the structure of the data file. In other words, each split file must have the same structure as the ori-
ginal files, otherwise the Design documents to which they will be sent will not be able to extract the data
correctly and the merging process will fail.
In OL Connect jobs, data is normally extracted from a data file using the "Execute Data Mapping" on
page522 task. That task stores the extracted data in records which can then be merged with a tem-
plate.
Caution: Splitters do not modify the Metadata that is currently active within your process. This
means that, if you are intending to use Metadata along with a process using splitters, you can
either use the "Metadata Sequencer" on page476 instead of a splitter, or (re)create the Metadata
after the splitter.
About using emulations with data splitters
An emulation specifies how to interpret a data file (see "About data emulation" on page54.) When an
emulation is used with a splitter action task, the job file is emulated, cut to pieces and de-emulated.
Most times, the emulation/de-emulation process is completely transparent. However, in some cases,
there may be minute differences.
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