Create Metadata

Creates all the metadata that is either the result of the merging between a data file and a PlanetPress Design document, or the information about a PDF File.

Input

Either a data file in any supported Emulation, or a PDF File.

Processing

If a data file and document are selected, the metadata is generated by merging the data file and document and retrieving only the metadata generated by this merge. The Metadata levels will reflect those defined in the document, including separation for Group and Document, metadata fields, etc.

In PDF emulation, the size and orientation attributes for each page are set in the metadata. In all other emulations, those attributes remain blank.
In XML emulation, the metadata file is always created as if the user had specified the "Second Level" parameter in PlanetPress Design.

If the "Do not use document (passthrough)" option is used, no PlanetPress Design document is used. The metadata will contain a single Job, Group and Document level, as many data page levels as there are records (pages in a PDF, XML levels, etc) in the file, and one page level per data page.

In PlanetPress Design, this step is equivalent to a &metamode variable value of 1.

Output

The original data file is output, along with the newly generated metadata file. Job infos are not changed.

Task Properties

General Tab

Documents: Select a specific PlanetPress Design document you want all the jobs metadata information generated for.
Add job information to the document: Select to prompt your PReS™ Workflow to add the available job information elements in the header of the generated file. Note that this option is only enabled if a document was selected.

Examples & Use Cases

This task is put into effect in the following use cases and example processes:

On Error Tab

By default, any action task, branch, splitter or condition that generates an error will simply be ignored, and the task just under it (not within a branch) will be given control of the job file without any modification. Any initial input task that generates an error will stop the process from running as a whole, and output tasks will not generate output. The On Error tab can be used to overwrite the default behaviors.

Send to Process: Check this option to send the job file to an error management process.
Error Process drop-down: Enabled only when the Send to Process option is checked. Lists any process of which the initial input task is the Input Error Bin task.
Action Group: This group is disabled in the initial input tasks and defaults to Stop Process. In all other tasks where the On Error tab is present, the following options are available:
- Ignore: The task is ignored as if it did not exist, and the job file is passed on to the next task in the process.
- Stop Branch: If the task is in a branch of the process, the branch is stopped and the job file is returned to the process after the branch. The branch will not produce any output.
- Stop Process: The process is stopped and no more processing is done. No further output is produced.
Log Message: Check this option to enable logging a custom error message in the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools' log file.
Message: Enabled only when the Log Message option is checked. Enter a message that will be logged in the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools' log file. You can use any variables available in PlanetPress Workflow to customize the message.
Store the message in variable: Select in which jobinfo, local or global variable you want to store the message content.
ID: Enter an error ID. This ID will be visible in the Windows Event Viewer. However, the ID is not visible in the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools' log file.
Store the ID in variable: Select in which jobinfo, local or global variable you want to store the error ID.
Reset to defaults: Resets all options in this tab to their default values.

If storing the message or ID, if they are store in a jobinfo they will be available in any error handling process where errors are being forwarded. In all cases, if your process continues after the error, the contents of the variables selected in this window will be available for the rest of your process, or whenever they are overwritten.

Common Errors

Though some error messages are specific to a task in particular, others may apply to any and all tasks because they are related more to the system than to PlanetPress itself. Some examples would be W3813, W3830, W3991, W4005. These correspond to issues such as not having any space to write files, permission errors on folders or files, etc.

Comments Tab

The Comments tab, added in PlanetPress Suite 7.5, is common to all tasks. It contains a single text area (Task comments) that lets you write comments about the task. These comments are saved when the dialog is closed with the OK button, and are displayed in The Task Comments Pane.