Hi,

Am very much new to Plant Press, I have a pdf generated through the work flow which is automatically saved in a perticular path.

I just want to know if we have any option in the flow to open the windows save dialog box, so that the user can himself choose the save location.

Thanks,
Ram

Hi Ram,

Since most of the features of Planet Press are actually ran through services on a server there are not any options that will allow the end user to enter an input or answer to a dialog box.

You will not be able to choose from a remote computer the path of the said file you want to save.

But keep in mind that you can create many folders for watch to monitor so that end users have a somewhat some kind of flexibility to where the files are going.

Hope this helps!

Marc

Hi Marc,

Thank you for your reply.

Actually I remember sometimes back when I run the workflow, it used to generate the PDF file and it will automatically show me the windows save dialog box for me choose the location where I can save the outpur PDF file.

But now many things have been changed by my team memebers and now I dont get this option.

Would be great if you can help me in this.

Thanks
Ram

Ram,

Maybe (but I'm not sure) if you're sending to a third-party pdf printer like AdobePDF or PDFCreator, it would pop up a Save As dialog. But this would only happen if you're logged on to the actual workflow computer and if the process was set to Run on Desktop.

Doing this from a remote computer however is simply not possible using a "save as" dialog. There would be ways for a user to specify a location, for example if they are sending their data file through email and the subject line contains the path, or if you're receiving jobs through LPD and you use the originating username to send it somewhere in particular (such as the user's personal network drive).

Perhaps if you found an older backup of the configuration where the Save As dialog you mentioned was working, you could study what it did... but I'm fairly certain it wouldn't be supported by us.

Also if you'd like for us to create a solution for your needs, we do have professional services available that can do it for you (at a price). Contact your Objectif Lune sales person for more details on that.

Hi,



If you want interaction between a user and the Workflow tool, then you could investigate the possibility of providing an HTML/forms based interface, using PlanetPress Workflow's built-in HTTP Server and the HTTP Server Input plug-in. For example, the workflow tool could serve an HTML page allowing users from the same network to provide some input parameters through an HTML form. Submitting the form could trigger a process that would behave according to the provided input parameters (which may include uploaded files), and send back a response to the user's browser.

Hope this helps!

Benoit

Hi frnds,

Thanks for your help.
I will check on the options provided.