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
both include a startup process, the one in the imported configuration will become a
standard process.
Important considerations
l When importing a PReS Workflow configuration file, your PlanetPress Design and
PrintShop Mail document are not physically imported as they are not part of the
configuration file itself. In order for the documents to be available, you will need to send
each document from PlanetPress Design and PrintShop Mail (see their respective
documentation for details).
l
If you import a PReS Workflow configuration that contains a PReS Fax output task, you
must update the task’s properties and refresh the host name. Otherwise, when PReS
Workflow will attempt to output the file, an error will be generated.
Toggle the Run on Desktop Property
Since PReS Workflow configurations are typically meant to run without user interaction, all of
their processes are set to run in the background by default. In some cases, such as when a
dialog box must appear or user input is required, you may make any process run on your
desktop instead of as a service.
Generally this will happen only when calling a third-party software using the Run External
Program plugin, but is also valid if using a Script that generates a dialog that someone must
click or interact with.
Note
The term "Desktop"is defined as the desktop of the user logged on to the computer
where PReS Workflow is installed. These dialogs cannot be displayed on any other
computer.
To toggle a process’ Run on Desktop property:
1.
Select an active process in the Configuration Components pane.
2.
In the Object Inspector Pane, change the Run on desktop property from False to True,
or vice versa.
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