2022.2

Importing PrintShop Mail documents
This procedure describes how to import variable content documents created in PrintShop Mail (Suite,
not Connect) into PReS Workflow.
1. Click the PReS Workflow button.
2. Choose Import, then Import PrintShop Mail Document. The Import PrintShop Mail Docu-
ment dialog box appears.
3. Navigate to the document you want to import, select it and click Open. The document is imported
and displayed in the Configuration Components pane. This physically installs the documents
to the Documents folder relative to the install folder of PReS Workflow.
Tip: To navigate quickly to the Workflow working folders, press the keyboard shortcut
CTRL+ALT+Shift+F4 from within the Workflow configuration tool.
For help on importing PrintShopMail Connect templates, see "Connect resources" on page38.
About data
Data is what drives your business, and our software. We define data as anything that is obtained
through an Input task and used within the process itself. Once the data is obtained, it becomes the job
file that is passed from one task to another and generally used to generate output (see "Job file" on the
facing page).
Data can be manipulated using the tasks in the process, used as comparison for conditions and loops,
complemented with data from other sources, and used to generate your output. It originates from many
different sources (as many as the input tasks support), parts of it can be stored in variables, and it is
always accessible by the task that currently handles it.
Data is referred to in tasks using data selections. "Data selections" on page48 let you use data in file
names, for example, or store them in a variable or in the Data Repository for use later on.
While creating a process, you will need a sample data file to make data selections from it and to debug
the process with it. For more information about sample data files see "Sample Data" on page62.
Note: Null characters present in the data may not be displayed properly when using the PReS
Workflow Configuration tool, and they may also be printed differently by different printers. To
ensure consistency, you should consider filtering out such characters.
About documents and variable data
"Variable data" is data that is meant to be merged with a document or template.
In PReS Connect, variable data is usually retrieved from a data file (the job file) using the OLConnect
Execute Data Mapping task. This task uses a data mapping configuration file, created with the
Page 46