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DataMapper, to produce a record set. A data mapping configuration contains a data model. Any Con-
nect template constructed using the same data model can be merged with the resulting record set by
an OLConnect Create Content task.
In PlanetPress Suite, Design documents are typically associated with an Output task. PReS Workflow
dispatches captured data (the job file) to PlanetPress Design documents directly. It is therefore critical
that a process and a document use the same emulation (see "About data emulation" on page54). Plan-
etPress Suite users are advised to review the PlanetPress Design User Guide, especially the Select-
ing an Emulation section.
Job file
Whichever source it may come from, a serial port, an e-mail message, or an LPR request, for instance,
and whatever its format, data entering a PReS Workflow process via an Input task is always referred to
as a data file. When a data file enters a process, it becomes the job file.
'Job file' however is a more general term, that can refer to data files as well as other types of files trav-
eling through a process. Image files, for example, can be passed from task to task in order to be down-
loaded to a printer. So files traveling within a process are referred to as job files.
A single job file can be the source of multiple job files. This is the case, for example, when a process
includes multiple branches, as each branch is given a duplicate copy of the job file (see "About
branches and conditions" on page113). This is also the case when a job file is split into multiple smaller
files by a Splitter Action task, for instance (see "Data splitters" on page405).
It is important to note that job files may be used as a helpful debugging resource (see "Debugging and
error handling" on page82).
Job file names are generated automatically and stored in the %f system variable (see "Job file names
and output file names" below).
Actual data and sample data
The actual data is the dynamic data captured by PReS Workflow at run-time. The sample data file is a
static sampling of the run-time data (see "Sample Data" on page62).
In the PReS Workflow Configuration program, you use sample data files to create, edit and debug
PReS Workflow configurations (see "Debugging your PReS Workflow process" on page88).
Job file names and output file names
When an Input task sends a new data file down a process, it gives it an internal file name referred to as
the job file name (associated with the %f variable). The new job file typically keeps the same name until
the end of the process.
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If the job file comes to a branch in the process, PReS Workflow makes a copy of the job file and
gives the new file a new job file name.
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