8.6
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PReS Workflow 8.6.1
- System Requirements
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PReS Workflow
- About Branches and Conditions
- Configuration Components
- Connect Resources
- About Data
- Data Repository
- About Documents
- Debugging and Error Handling
- The Plug-in Bar
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow processes
- About Tasks
- Task Properties
- Variable Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PReS Workflow Button
- The Configuration Components Pane
- Components Area Sections
- Processes and Subprocesses
- Manipulate Global Variables
- Connect Resources
- PPS/PSM Documents
- Associate Documents and PReS Printer Queues
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Rename Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reorder Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expand and Collapse Categories and Groups in the Configuration Components Pane
- Delete Objects and Groups from the Configuration Components Pane
- Other Dialogs
- The Debug Information Pane
- The Message Area Pane
- The Object Inspector Pane
- The Plug-in Bar
- Preferences
- Other Preferences and Settings
- General appearance preferences
- Object Inspector appearance preferences
- Configuration Components Pane appearance preferences
- Default Configuration behavior preferences
- Notification Messages behavior preferences
- Sample Data behavior preferences
- Network behavior preferences
- PlanetPress Capture preferences
- OL Connect preferences
- PDF Text Extraction Tolerance Factors
- General and logging preferences
- Messenger plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 1 plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 2 plugin preferences
- LPD Input plugin preferences
- Serial Input plugin preferences
- Telnet Input plugin preferences
- PReSFax plugin preferences
- FTP Output Service preferences
- PReS Image preferences
- LPR Output preferences
- PrintShop Web Connect Service preferences
- Editor Options
- The Process Area
- Zoom In or Out within Process Area
- Adding Tasks
- Adding Branches
- Edit a Task
- Replacing Tasks, Conditions or Branches
- Remove Tasks or Branches
- Task Properties Dialog
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting Tasks and Branches
- Moving a Task or Branch Using Drag-and-Drop
- Ignoring Tasks and Branches
- Resize Rows and Columns of the Process Area
- Selecting Documents in Tasks Links
- Highlight a Task or Branch
- Undo a Command
- Redo a Command
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PReS Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
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.
Use Case 2: Translate a list of line items descriptions into a given language
A PlanetPress Design 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.
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