8.5

This section covers issues relating to the sample data used to create your PReS Workflow
configuration and to the actual data that PReS Workflow will send to PlanetPress Design
documents. It is an important section which you should fully understand before you start
creating your configuration. Also included in this section are procedures that let you make data
selections as well as get data from the sample data file.
Since many of the concepts and explanations included in this chapter are closely related to
concepts and explanations found in the PlanetPress Design User Guide, we suggest that you
review this document, especially the Selecting an Emulation section.
Choosing a Database Type Sample Data File
The procedure for selecting a sample data file that is in fact a database is the same as doing so
in PlanetPress Design. For more information, please see the relevant page in the PlanetPress
Design User Guide.
Note
You can also use the PReS Workflow Database action task to get data form a database,
and output in multiple different formats such as CSV. See "Database Query" on
page263.
Choosing a Sample Data File
In order to create your PReS Workflow Process, the sample data you are going to use has to
correspond precisely to the job files that will be treated by that process, at least in terms of
structure.
The sample data file should have a relatively small number of pages (generally less than a
hundred)in order to be processed quickly, while your actual data may be much larger and take
more time to process. The sample data file should also contain at least one of every exception
you may want to detect, or data used for a specific condition. For example if you wanted to filter
out any data for clients in Canada, you would want to use a data file that has at least one user
from Canada, to test whether your condition removes it.
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