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
variables selected in this window will be available for the rest of your process, or whenever they are
overwritten.
Common Errors
Though some error messages are specific to a task in particular, others may apply to any and all tasks
because they are related more to the system than to PReS itself. Some examples would be W3813, W3830,
W3991, W4005. These correspond to issues such as not having any space to write files, permission errors
on folders or files, etc.
Comments Tab
The Comments tab, added in PReS Suite 7.5, is common to all tasks. It contains a single text area (Task
comments)that lets you write comments about the task. These comments are saved when the dialog is
closed with the OKbutton, and are displayed in The Task Comments Pane.
Use Cases
Use Case 1: Send Personalized Emails with Promotional Document Attached
A PReS Connect document takes as input a PDF file as the input data file, and reproduces it exactly as it
enters. The document also contains a custom data selection set to hold an email address.The data
selection's value is given by a Metadata Field called'Email'.The value of this Emailmetadata field isa
region from the sample data file representing the customer number. At production time, the Lookup in
Microsoft® Excel® Documents action task will replace the value of this metadata field with the
corresponding customer email.
Use Case 2: Translate a list of line items descriptions into a given language
A PReS Connect documenttakes as input a transactional PDF file, and reproduces it exactly as it enters.
Metadata fields called ItemDesc are created, one for each line item description, at the datapage level. Each
ItemDesc metadata field is given the value of a line item description as found on a region of the current data
page. The line item descriptions appearing on the resulting page produced by the design tool are custom
data selections whose valuecome fromthe correspondingItemDescmetadata fields. The Lookup in
Microsoft® Excel® Documents action task updates the value of all 'ItemDesc' metadata fields with their
corresponding foreign language descriptions.
Microsoft® Word® Documents To PDF Conversion
The Microsoft® Word® to PDFaction task can be used to convert a Word® document into a PDFfile that
can be used in your PReS Workflow process. It can also do a Mail Merge as it runs the task.