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#49463 - 09/24/14 04:23 PM Sending to PlanetPress Suite Workflow, using cmd
ahshia Offline
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Registered: 03/18/13
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Loc: usa
I want to send my (configurations) from Design to Watch [send to planetpress suite workflow] using command lines or any other way possible without having to open the design.pp7 to do it.

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#49482 - 09/25/14 06:35 PM Re: Sending to PlanetPress Suite Workflow, using cmd [Re: ahshia]
GBowlsby Offline
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Unless you make a change to your design .pp7 file you should not have to send it. So if you make a change pp7 will already be opened.

If you are using one process for multiple pp7, it may be better to have multiple process.

Then you can use a cmd line to copy the data, or a batch file.

With that said I do not think you can send design files to watch through command line.

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#49484 - 09/26/14 05:13 AM Re: Sending to PlanetPress Suite Workflow, using cmd [Re: ahshia]
Dal Offline
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Can you put some context around your question so I can better understand why you would need to do this?

Is this for deploying within a 2-server environment (test to production)??

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#49493 - 09/26/14 03:33 PM Re: Sending to PlanetPress Suite Workflow, using cmd [Re: ahshia]
ahshia Offline
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Thanks for the replies.

We have over a 100 processes, each with its own pp7 forms. The forms changes through out the month and is used for printing at the 1st of the next new month.

So prior to the first we have to go to every pp7 form and send its new design forms to watch. We have to do this on multiple servers as well to keep those watches consistent. We use them for making PDFs and for printing.

So being able to send command lines to the pp7 would greatly speed up the process.

Anything thoughts?

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#49494 - 09/26/14 05:05 PM Re: Sending to PlanetPress Suite Workflow, using cmd [Re: ahshia]
Dal Offline
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I hope you have a test server?

If so, send your pp7's to the test server as changes are made (you'll be in Design anyway).

Then when you want to deploy to the other servers, simply copy the contents of %systemdrive%\ProgramData\Objectif Lune\PlanetPress Watch\Documents to the same directory on each if your other machines overwriting the old versions.

You could set this up as a process on each of your servers:
Test server - single process on a schedule which calls robo copy (or similar) to push the current design files to central storage)
All other servers have a similar process to copy the files from central storage and overwrite local copies.

HTHs

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#49499 - 09/29/14 07:03 AM Re: Sending to PlanetPress Suite Workflow, using cmd [Re: ahshia]
Philippe F. Offline
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Have you looked into the Batch Send To option? It allows you to send several documents to several servers at once. Sounds pretty much like what you're looking for.
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#49504 - 09/29/14 12:53 PM Re: Sending to PlanetPress Suite Workflow, using cmd [Re: ahshia]
ahshia Offline
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Batch Send To Option sounds like its almost there. Selecting the 100s of documents to send and each document sitting in 100s of different folder paths makes it a lot of work. Are we able to tell pp7 what documents to batch and send outside of the batch and send menu option?

For cross server I'll try the simple copy of "%systemdrive%\ProgramData\Objectif Lune\PlanetPress Watch\Documents". I thought the last time I tried something like that watch didnt like it.

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#49513 - 09/29/14 03:05 PM Re: Sending to PlanetPress Suite Workflow, using cmd [Re: ahshia]
ahshia Offline
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Loc: usa
Ok this is my progress so far.

I can send this in a batch file

c:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\PlanetPress Suite 7\PlanetPress Design\"
PPress /batch

this will execute the the "Batch Send To" menu. now if I can have it load all the "Selected documents" paths instantly I'll be that much closer. Any thoughts?

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#49525 - 09/30/14 11:25 AM Re: Sending to PlanetPress Suite Workflow, using cmd [Re: ahshia]
Philippe F. Offline
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Unfortunately, that's as close as it gets.
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