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
Lastly, PReS Workflow 7.4 and higher also has a new option that can be used in conjunction
with the previous to avoid skipping through large processes:
l Step through the process until the emulation or data change, as in the first method.
l Save the data file locally and then select it as your sample data file, as with the second
method.
l Instead of skipping through each task, use the Run from here or Step from here options,
either from the Debug tab or by right-clicking on the task where you want to start the
process.
Once you have created and fully debugged all your processes, you will be ready to send it to
PReS Workflow service. See "Saving and Sending" on page608.
The Plug-in Bar
PReS Workflow offers a constantly increasing number of plugins, while always allowing third
party plugins to be installed and set up to be used by PReS Workflow. The PReS Workflow
Plug-in Bar lists all plugins available in PReS Workflow, and is divided into categories, which
users can customize at will.
Most of the PReS plugins are installed by default, but other plugins may be added. Because the
plugins are always expected to execute some sort of task, they are always referred to, in this
documentation, as tasks, except in the specific case of importing a new plugin or customizing
the Plug-in Bar.
Categories
The default categories list plugins according to what type of task they achieve. When first
starting your PReS Workflow program, the following categories are used:
l Inputs
l Actions
l Data splitters
l Process logic
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