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
 
A single JOB can be composed of GROUPS of DOCUMENTS, which themselves are
composed of physical PAGES produced by executing a PReS Connect document on one or
more DATAPAGES.
Metadata Elements
Each metadata node (i.e. Job, Group, Document, etc.) is described with a series of elements,
that is, system-defined attributes or user-defined fields holding static or dynamic information
about the node they are attached to. Each element has a name and a value. More specifically,
here is a definition of these 2 types of elements:
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Attribute: A read-only, system-defined element which holds a certain information about a
certain node from the Metadata structure. This information can be static (e.g. the size of a
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