8.4
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PReS Workflow 8.4.1
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PReS Workflow
- About Branches and Conditions
- Configuration Components
- Connect Resources
- About Data
- About Documents
- Debugging and Error Handling
- The Plug-in Bar
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow Types
- About Tasks
- Task Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Special Workflows
PDFWorkflow
APDFworkflow uses a PDFas it's job file and manipulations are generally made in the Metadata instead of
the PDFitself, since PDFfiles are much larger than most other data files compatible with PReS Suite. The
Metadata Tools are extensively used in the example presented, which is a weekly sales report sent to all the
sales associates of a particular company branch. See the "PDF Workflow" on page 145 for more details.
PlanetPress Capture Workflow
A Capture workflow is divided in two steps:Creating an output of documents containing the PlanetPress
Capture Fields, and retrieving the information from the Anoto Digital Pen to merge it with the original
documents. See "PlanetPress Capture Workflow" below for more details.
HTTPServer workflow
An HTTPworkflow receives requests from a client via a GETor POSTrequest, sometimes only with
information, sometimes with attached files. An HTTPworkflow is basically an XMLworkflow since that is the
type of file created by the HTTPServer Input action task. See the "HTTP Server Workflow" on page 138
page for more details.
SOAPWorkflow
As SOAPcan be either a client or a server, two workflows will be presented. The SOAPClient workflow
presents PReS Workflow as the client and will explore how to retrieve WSDLinformation and how to make
a SOAPrequest as a client. The SOAPServer workflow will show how to create a process that responds to
SOAPrequests, and where our own WSDLis located.
PlanetPress Capture Workflow
PlanetPress Capture, introduced in PlanetPress 7.2 and enhanced ever since, is a set of tools that is used
to simplify digital archiving processes by capturing information from a special pen which records everything
it writes on paper, as long as this paper contains special Anoto Patterns.
Warning
There are important considerations to keep in mind when dealing with PlanetPress Capture. Please