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
 
l Record Set:Retrieves one or more Record Sets, including all their records. Output
similar to the Create Record Set task.
l Content Item: Retrieves one or more Content Items, whether or not they are part of
a Content Set. Output similar to the Create Print Content or Create HTML Content
Set tasks.
l Content Set:Retrieves one or more Content Sets, including all their content items.
Output similar to the Create Print Content task.
l Job:Retrieves one or more Jobs, including all their content items ready to be
printed. Output similar to the Create Job task.
l
Retrieve by:
l
Condition: Select entities based on one or more conditions, the value of a metadata
field for example.
l
Record ID: Select records based on their Record ID. This option is only available
when the entity to retrieve is a Record. Multiple records can be retrieved by entering
multiple Record ID's, each on a new line.
l Conditions:
l Add a condition:Click to add a new condition line. This adds the line to the current
condition level, by default with an AND operator.
l Switch conditions:Click to swap two conditions on the same level, or two groups
of conditions.
l Delete the selected condition:Click to delete the currently selected conditions in
the list.
l Clear the rule: Click to delete all rules in the list. Note:This cannot be undone.
l
Import a rule:Click to open the Browse dialog and load a Rules file. This will load
its rules into the list.
l
Export the rule:Click to open a Save dialog and save the Rules file to disk.
l Rule Viewer:Displays a text-based view of the condition using operators and
parentheses.
l Output Type group:
l Output IDs in Metadata:Select to only output minimal metadata containing the
entity IDs.
l Output records in Metadata:Select to output IDs as well as record details in the
metadata, useful for further sorting and filtering of the metadata.
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