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
l PDFType:Select Preview or Print to select which type of PDFshould be
generated. This option is only available when PDF is selected in the Output type
box.
l PostScript Driver:Select which driver to use to generate the job. This should be
the same as the printer selected in your PrintShop Mail document when designing
it. This option only appears in the PDFand Produce PostScript output types.
l Windows printer: Select the print driver of the printer to which you want the print job
to be sent. This option is only available when Windows PostScript driver is selected
in the Output type box.
l Print Technology:Select the PrintShop Mail print technology to use when
generating the output. For a list of available job technologies, consult the PrintShop
Mail User Guide. This option is only available when Windows PostScript driver is
selected in the Output type box.
l Layout: Select which layout to use to produce the JPGfile (output is limited to a
single image). This option is only available when JPG is selected in the Output type
box.
l User generated file as output:The output from the plugin will be the file generated
by the merging (depending on the output type selected). This option is not available
in the Windows PostScript Driver output type.
l User original data as output: The output from the plugin will be original data file.
When this option is selected, a box is enabled under the option, letting you specify a
full path where the output should be saved. This option is not available in the
Windows PostScript Driver output type.
l Record Range group
l All records: Select if you want to print all the records included in the job file.
l Use Record Range: Select if you want to print only some of the range included in
the job file. Use the From and To boxes to indicate the record range.
On Error Tab
The On Error tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found in the" Task Properties Dialog"
on page771.
By default, any action task, branch, splitter or condition that generates an error will simply be
ignored, and the task just under it (not within a branch)will be given control of the job file
without any modification. Any initial input task that generates an error will stop the process from
running as a whole, and output tasks will not generate output. The On Error tab can be used to
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