Allowing to file selection to print

OL Connect Professional Workflow
1

Good Morning

I would like to create some process where I would have some printers selection and may decide which PDF files will be printed on which printer.

For example I have 2 printers:

  • Printer A

  • Printer B

And I have main process “Checks” which would generate a lot of output PDF files.

I would like to create maybe some kind of additional process where I would select that for examples 3 PDFs will be printed on printer A and 2 last PDFs will be printed on printer B.

Is there any solution to handle that case in Planet Press? Or maybe there is other way to do this?

Thanks

2

You want it to be pre-defined in the process?

Or do you want some kind of dashboard where you can select which PDF goes where?

3

I will have some kind of special dashboard which will contain 2 printers.

4

There is nothing pre-defined like that in Workflow but it does provided you all the tools you need to create your own.

You will need to create your Dasboard using Connect Design. Then in Workflow, you will have a process that look into specific folders to know when PDFs are generated. This info would then be provided back to the Dashboard via an HTTP Server Input returned answer.

In your Dashboard you will then select (or drag drop depending on how you set it) the PDF files to the proper printer and via anAjax query, post theses choices to another Workflow process via HTTP Server Input.