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
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"OL Connect tasks" on page492 can add information, such as record IDs, a record set ID or a
print job ID, to the Metadata. They put it under 'User defined information' on the Job, Group or
Document level.
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The "Barcode Scan" on page355 task can add information to the existing Metadata, and creates
it if there is none.
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The "Capture-Fields generator" on page621, "Capture-Fields processor" on page624, "Capture-
Get document" on page632 and "Capture-Find document" on page629 tasks generate their own
Metadata.
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The "Lookup in Microsoft® Excel® Documents" on page440 enhances Metadata fields with
information from an Excel spreadsheet, but does not otherwise change its structure.
How Metadata affects the output
By default the data file is not affected when the Metadata are modified. There are however a few situ-
ations in which Metadata will or may affect the output.
In OL Connect, output is normally created from records in the Connect database, but options in some
"OL Connect tasks" on page492 make it possible to influence the output via the Metadata.
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The "Execute Data Mapping" on page522 task and "Retrieve Items" on page537 task can output
records in the Metadata.
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The "Create Print Content" on page513 and "Create Email Content" on page500 tasks have the
option to update the records in the Connect database from the Metadata and use the updated
records as input.
Note: Date/time values are stored in the OLConnect database as Unix timestamps, i.e. the total
number of seconds from the starting time of UTC (Universal Time, Coordinated) to the current
time (with zero time zone offset). For instance: 1675950179.
In the Metadata, however, date/time values are represented in the following format: YYYY-MM-
DDTHH:MM:SSZ.
In PlanetPress Suite, the Metadata defines the order in which the data is consumed by a Design tem-
plate. Changing the order and location of the various items means that the final output will be different
than the original and will follow the order dictated by the Metadata instead of the order of the physical
data.
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When you print a PDF with a Windows Print Queue, the Metadata is inspected to determine
whether pages should print or not (see "Print using a Windows driver" on page553).
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The "Create PDF" on page364 task also takes the Metadata into account.
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