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
When Metadata is produced for a given job, a hierarchical (i.e. tree-like) structure is created,
composed of the above elements in the following order: Job->Group(s)->Document(s)-
>Datapage(s)->Page(s). Any operation that modifies the data with regards to this structure (ex:
remove pages, alter the data, etc.) makes the metadata obsolete and so it must be recreated or
refreshed.
As an example, consider the typical case of a PReS Connect document which uses a Line
Printer datafile of transactional data in order to generate PDF invoices for a series of clients. By
using the Metadata tools available in PReS Workflow, we can add the following information to
the datafile:
l The job contains only invoices for clients located in Montreal.
l Since more than one invoice can go to the same recipient, invoices are grouped by
customer.
l Each invoice is a document resulting from the execution of a PlanetPress Design
document over one or more datapages, which results in zero or more physical pages
being output.
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