Selecting a resource file in task properties

The Properties dialog of some Action, Create Content and Output tasks lets you select a file. Depending on where the selection list appears you will have access to the Connect Resources (Connect resources), all PlanetPress Design documents (PlanetPress Design documents) or only to the PlanetPress Design documents installed on a printer queue.

In most cases, you have three options:

• You can choose a specific file from the list of installed documents (see Workflow Configuration resource files); these will be either Connect resources, or PlanetPress Design documents, depending on the task.
• You can choose a variable file (see below).
• You can choose not to use any document (only in certain cases). If an Output task was originally designed to merge a PlanetPress Design document with data, this means no document is merged with the data and the job file is sent as is.

Variable file name

The variable file name feature is used to dynamically determine which file is used with the task. The file name can be constructed using any variable (see Variable task properties).

To insert a variable file name:

1. Click on the %o entry in the document list
2. Right-click to insert variables using the contextual menu, or type the variables.
3. Click OK on the dialog.

Note: At run-time, if Connect Workflow cannot find the document name generated by those variables, the task will fail.