8.7
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
 - Welcome to PReS Workflow 8.7.1
 - 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 Types
 - 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
 
 - Additional Information
 - Copyright Information
 - Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
 
A single JOB can be composed of GROUPS of DOCUMENTS, which themselves are
composed of physical PAGES produced by executing a PlanetPress Design document on one
or more DATAPAGES.
Metadata elements
Each metadata node (i.e. Job, Group, Document, etc.) is described with a series of elements,
that is, system-defined attributes or user-defined fields holding static or dynamic information
about the node they are attached to. Each element has a name and a value. More specifically,
here is a definition of these 2 types of elements:
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Attribute: A read-only, system-defined element which holds a certain information about a
certain node in the Metadata structure. This information can be static (e.g. the size of a
physical page) or evaluated on-the-fly (e.g. the number of documents in a group).
Attributes are non-repetitive (i.e. name is unique) and do not persist through metadata
recreation.
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Field: A read-write, user-defined element which holds custom information about a certain
node in the metadata structure. Fields are repetitive (i.e. the same field may appear
multiple times) and persist through metadata recreation.
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