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
Task Properties
Any task you add to your PReS Workflowprocess must be configured using its properties dialog box. Each
task's Properties dialog will give you the options to configure that specific, individual task. Properties of one
task do not directly affect the properties of another task, however there are some software preferences that
may affect tasks in one way or another (See "Preferences" on page 544)
Variable Properties
When you edit tasks, you may notice that some of the properties that you can modify have a red(or more
precisely, a maroon) title. This means that the property can be dynamically determined whenever your
process runs, that is to say it will not remain static. This can be extremely useful when, for example, you
want to determine how many copies you will print out depending on your data, or what document will be
used in the printout depending on the department it came from.
Variable properties may include:
l Static data.
l Standard Variables. See "Standard Variables" on page 467.
l Local and Global Variables. See "Manipulate Local Variables" on page 501.
l Job Infos. See "Job Info Variables" on page 466.
l Data and Metadata Selections. See "Data Selections " on page 18.
l Printer Control Characters. See "Shared Printer Queue Properties" on page 57. These are normally
only used in printer outputs.
Variable propertiescan also be used in these special locations:
l
In the Set Job Infos and Variables action task. See "Set Job Infos and Variables" on page 262.
l In Scripts. See the chapter on "Using Scripts" on page 75.
l
In the Create File input task. See "Create File" on page 155.
l Within a PReS Connect Document, using the ExpandString()function.See the PReS Connect User
Guide.
Variable properties can also be mixed, meaning you can combine, within a single variable property box, any
number and order of variable types. You can, for example, do the following for an output file name: %O_@
(1,1,1,30, KeepCase,Trim)_%y-%m-%d.txt. This would translate in the original file name, followed by part of
the first line of a text data file, then the current date.