8.8
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PReS Workflow 8.8
- 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
- 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
- PReS Fax 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
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HTML Form Action: An HTMLForm in the browser that may contain text and attached
files can be filled and sent to a process with the HTTPServer Input task.
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HTTP Data Submission: A custom application or a server sends the request to PReS
Workflow using either a POST or GET command. The application or server then waits for
a response from PReS WorkflowTools.
PReS Workflow can serve both static and dynamic resources to a web browser, however it is
not meant to be used as a fully featured web server, as it is not built for responsiveness nor
guaranteed uptime. It is much better to have a common web server (for example, IISor
Apache)to serve your contents and to have PReS Workflow available only to process things
only it can do.
Note
You can control access to the PReS Workflow Tools HTTP Server via the Access
Manager.
Important Configuration, Setup and Options
Before starting to work with HTTPworkflows, there are few key points to keep in mind in terms
of configuration. First of all, the following options are available in PReS Workflow Preference
screen, under the HTTPServer Input 1 and HTTPServer Input 2 sections:
l Port (default value:8080 recommended):The port number is the one in which a
browser needs to make a request to PReS Workflow. By default in most web server, port
80 is used and, when this is the case, it is not necessary to include it. For example, if
Itype http://www.objectiflune.com/ in my browser, it is actually accessing the address
http://www.objectiflune.com:80/ , but port 80 is always hidden. The reason port 8080 is
used by default is to prevent any interference with existing web servers installed or
activated on the same server as PReS Workflow.
l Time-out(seconds):This determines how long the HTTPServer service will wait for the
process to finish, before returning a time out error back to the client browser. This means
that if a process takes more than 120 seconds (by default)to complete, the browser will
time out. While you can change this value, it is recommended to always keep your
processing to a minimum, since both browsers and users generally frown upon being
stopped for more than a minute, unless they are well aware of this processing time (and
even then...)
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