The Plug-in Bar

PlanetPress Workflow offers a constantly increasing number of plugins, while always allowing third party plugins to be installed and set up to be used by PlanetPress Workflow. The PlanetPress Workflow Plug-in Bar lists all plugins available in PlanetPress Workflow, and is divided into categories, which users can customize at will.

Most of the PlanetPress plugins are installed by default, but other plugins may be added. Because the plugins are always expected to execute some sort of task, they are always referred to, in this documentation, as tasks, except in the specific case of importing a new plugin or customizing the Plug-in Bar.

Categories

The default categories list plugins according to what type of task they achieve. When first starting your PlanetPress Workflow program, the following categories are used:

  • Inputs
  • Actions
  • Data splitters
  • Process logic
  • Connectors
  • PlanetPress Capture
  • Metadata Related
  • OL Connect Send
  • OL Connect
  • Outputs
An Uncategorized category is dynamically created if your PlanetPress Workflow finds any plugin that would not be part of the existing Plug-in Bar. User-defined plugins and third party application plugins falls into such a category.

Settings & Customization

The Plug-in Bar can be customized according to your needs and the plugins you most frequently used.

You can use the horizontal dark blue bar separating the plugin area and the list of categories to change how many plugin categories are displayed as the full-width bar with the title, and how much are displayed as icon only. Move the bar up to display more full-width categories, or down to display them more as icons.

Furthermore, the Plug-in Bar can be customized using the popup indicator control (). Customizing the Plug-in Bar is mostly used for third party or legacy plugins.

Using the contextual menu displayed by the popup indicator, you can:
  • Insert, delete and rename custom categories.
  • Move categories up or down.
  • Import third party or legacy plugins.
  • Move plugins from one custom category to another (that you cannot move default plugins from the default categories, you can only copy them)
  • Copy plugins from one custom category to another by holding the CTRL key.
  • Delete plugins from any custom category by using the Delete key.
  • Revert to the default Plug-in Bar by selecting Reset to default.
To import a plugin:
  1. Click on the popup control ().
  2. Click on Import Plugin.
  3. Browse to the location of the plugin DLL file.
  4. Click on Open.
  5. New plugins appear in the Uncategorized category.