8.5
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PReS Workflow 8.5
- System Requirements
- 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
- Variable Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
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ID:Enter an error ID. This IDwill be visible in the Windows Event Viewer. However, the IDis not
visible in the PReS Suite Workflow Tools' log file.
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Store the IDin variable:Select in which jobinfo, local or global variable you want to store the error
ID.
l Reset to defaults:Resets all options in this tab to their default values.
If storing the message or ID, if they are store in a jobinfo they will be available in any error handling process
where errors are being forwarded. In all cases, if your process continues after the error, the contents of the
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 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 PlanetPress Design 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.