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
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.
Output Tasks
Output tasks are exits from PReS Workflow processes. They can be used to send data to specific devices,
such as printers, applications, such as email software, or locations, such as folders. A single process can
include multiple branches, each one terminated by an output task, and so a single process may generate
output via a variety of output tasks.
Typically, whenever PReS Workflow sends an output task to an output device, application or location, it
considers its job finished. When it sends data to a printer, for example, it does not wait for the document to
have finished printing to consider its job done. In the same fashion, an email output task is completed once
PReS Workflow has sent its message to the email software, not when the email has actually been sent from
the software. And in the case of a PReS Image output task, PReS Workflow considers its job done once it
has sent its request to PReS Image, not once PReS Image has finished generating the actual image file.
Other tasks available in PReS Workflow can be used to generate output, such as Digital Action, Create
VDX and PrintForm action tasks. Unlike output tasks, action tasks are only considered completed once the
output file has been generated. In the case of a Digital Action action task, for example, PReS Workflow will
consider the task completed only once the image file has actually been created. This means that no other
task from the same process can be performed in the meantime. For more information on those tasks, refer to
Action Tasks.
Send to Folder tasks, which are considered as action and output tasks, are documented in the current
chapter.
Delete
Delete output tasks simply delete the job files they receive. They are often used after conditions to get rid of
those files that did not meet the requirements of the condition.
Input
Any data file, with optional metadata.