PlanetPress Image preferences

PlanetPress Image user options control certain functions of the PlanetPress Image service, which in turn has a direct impact on all PlanetPress Image Output tasks performed on a given computer. These include error and logging options, PlanetPress Search database options, as well as networking and email options.

Bear in mind that Image Output tasks included in a given PlanetPress Workflow configuration can be performed by a PlanetPress Image installation running on a different computer, typically one that runs only PlanetPress Image. When you change the user options on a given computer, only that computer is affected. So you should change the Image user options on the computer that actually performs the Image Output tasks.

The changes you make to the PlanetPress Image user options are stored in the PlanetPress Image configuration file (ppimage.cfg). They will be applied when PlanetPress Image is started.

The available PlanetPress Image user options are separated in four different sections.

PlanetPress 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 PlanetPress 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 PlanetPress 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 PlanetPress Image output task. Additionally, a backup of the job is created in the Error folder, which is located in the PlanetPress Workflow 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 PlanetPress Image cannot be resolved.
  • Delete log after: Enter the number of days to wait before deleting the log of the generated PlanetPress Image output. Each log file covers a single 24-hour period and is kept in the Log folder, which is located in the PlanetPress Workflow installation folder. This log may be on the local computer running PlanetPress Workflow or on another computer on your network.
  • Activation: Click to enter activation codes for the PlanetPress Image service installed on the same computer as PlanetPress Workflow. If you have already activated the PlanetPress 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 PlanetPress Image. You are guided through the updating process with the PlanetPress Workflow Update Service wizard.
  • About: Click to display an About dialog box for PlanetPress 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 PlanetPress Image Configuration applet. Note that this button is not displayed if you edit the PlanetPress Image options directly (not via PlanetPress Workflow Configuration program).

PlanetPress Image 2 or database tab

Add PDF to PlanetPress Search database group: Select to populate a PlanetPress Search database using the documents created by PlanetPress Image and to activate the related options. Refer to the PlanetPress Search User Guide for more information on this PlanetPress Workflow 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 PlanetPressSearch 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 PlanetPressImage 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.

PlanetPress 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 PlanetPress Image will interact with your Novell NetWare system, not the PlanetPress Workflow Service.

PlanetPress Image 4 or login tab

  • Use Microsoft Outlook: Select to use Microsoft Outlook on the host computer running PlanetPress Image to send the error messages to the administrators. The host computer must be running Outlook, and PlanetPress 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 PlanetPress 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.