PReS™ Image User Options
PReS™ Image user options control certain functions of the PReS™ Image service, which in turn has a direct impact on all PReS™ Image output tasks performed on a given computer. These include error and logging options, PReS™ Search database options, as well as networking and email options.
Bear in mind that PReS™ Image output tasks included in a given PReS™ Workflow configuration can be performed by a PReS™ Image installation running on a different computer, typically one that runs only PReS™ Image. When you change the user options on a given computer, only that computer is affected. So you should consider changing the PReS™ Image user options on the computer that actually performs the PReS™ Image output tasks.
The changes you make to the PReS™ Image user options are stored in the PReS™ Image configuration file (ppimage.cfg). They will be applied when PReS™ Image is started.
The available PReS™ Image user options are separated in four different sections:
PReS™ Image 1 or logging tab
- Administrator’s address(es): Enter one or more system administrator email addresses to which error and other messages related to the creation of PDFs/images by PReS™ Image are sent. Separate multiple email addresses with semi-colons (;).
- Send to the administrator group
- Daily log: Select to send an email to the administrator every day at midnight (according to the local system clock) reporting the daily activity of PReS™ Image. The log is sent to all addresses you enter in the Administrator’s address(es) text box.
- Error Log: Select to send an email that includes the current error log to the administrator when an error occurs. The error log is sent to all addresses you enter in the Administrator’s address(es) text box.
- Error file: When enabled, sends an e-mail with an attachment of the offending file when an error occurs in the PReS™ Image output task. Additionally, a backup of the job is created in the Error folder, which is located in the PlanetPress Suite installation folder.
- Name or address not resolved: Select to send an email to the administrator when a name or address in the document selected to be used in PReS™ Image cannot be resolved.
- Delete log after: Enter the number of days to wait before deleting the log of the generated PReS™ Image output. Each log file covers a single 24-hour period and is kept in the Log folder, which is located in the PlanetPress Suite installation folder. This log may be on the local computer running PReS™ Workflow or on another computer on your network.
- Activation: Click to enter activation codes for the PReS™ Image service installed on the same computer as PReS™ Workflow. If you have already activated the PReS™ Image service from its Control Panel applet, this is reflected when you open the activation dialog box by clicking this button.
- Check for updates: Click to access the Objectif Lune website to search for updates to PReS™ Image. You are guided through the updating process with the PlanetPress Suite Update Service wizard.
- About: Click to display an About dialog box for PReS™ Image. This dialog box contains information such as the version number, whether the software is activated or the number of days remaining in the trial.
- Select Language: Click to select a different interface language for the PReS™ Image Configuration applet. Note that this button is not displayed if you edit the PReS™ Image options directly (not via PReS™ Workflow Configuration program).
PReS™ Image 2 or database tab
Add PDF to PReS™ Search database group: Select to populate a PReS™ Search database using the documents created by PReS™ Image and to activate the related options. Refer to the PReS™ Search User Guide for more information on this PlanetPress Suite software.
- Database type: Select the type of the database in which you want to create a table (Access, or SQL Server).
- Connection time-out: Enter the time, in seconds, that the connection to the database is maintained while no action is taking place before the connection is severed.
- Database directory: Enter the path of the directory in which the Access database is located, or use the Browse button to navigate to, and select, the directory. This option is available only when you select Access database in the Database type box.
- Data source name: Enter the name of the computer on which the database runs. This option is available only when you select SQL Server database or Oracle database in the Database type box.
- Use default database: Select to use the default database associated with your user profile on that SQL Server or Oracle database. Clear to enter the name of the database in the box that appears.
- Use Windows NT Integrated security: Select to use your Windows user name and password to log onto the SQL database.
- User ID: Enter the user id required to access the database to which you are adding new PDI files from the generated PDF files. If you are using an SQL database, enter the login name you chose when you configured the SQL database (refer to the “Using PlanetPress Search with an SQL Server Database” section of the PlanetPress Search User Guide).
- Password: Enter the password required to access the database.
- Test Connection: Click to verify that PlanetPress Image can connect to the specified database.
- Enforce global table creation: Select this option, as it ensures that all database users are granted access to the database. This option is available only when you select SQL database in the Database type box.
PReS™ Image 3 or network tab
The options in this section are identical to the ones in the Network User Options section. However, they determine how PReS™ Image will interact with your Novell NetWare system, not PReS™ Workflow Service.
PReS™ Image 4 or login tab
- Use Microsoft Outlook: Select to use Microsoft Outlook on the host computer running PReS™ Image to send the error messages to the administrators. The host computer must be running Outlook, and PReS™ Workflow must have access to Outlook. Outgoing emails appear in the outbox of Outlook, and is sent whenever Outlook is set to send email.
- Use SMTP mail group: Check to activate this group’s options and to use Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send the error messages to the administrators. Note that if you select this option, you will be required to enter information in the Name, Email address and Outgoing mail (SMTP) boxes.
- Name: Enter the name of the user sending the error messages to the administrators.
- Organization: Enter the name of the organization of the user sending the error messages to the administrators.
- Email address: Enter the email address of the user sending the error messages to the administrators.
- Reply address: Enter the reply address that recipients use to reply to the error messages.
- Outgoing mail (SMTP): Enter the IP address of the server that PReS™ Workflow uses to send the emails via SMTP.
- Server requires authentication: Select if the outgoing server used to send the emails via SMTP requires authentication. Note that if you select this option, you will be required to enter information in the Account name and Password boxes below.
- Account name: Enter the account name of the user on the server to be able to send emails via SMTP. You must select Server requires authentication to enable this field.
- Password: Enter the password corresponding to the Account name of the user on the server to be able to send email via SMTP. You must select Server requires authentication to enable this field.