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FreeFlow Process Manager Operator and Administrator Guide

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Workflow Builder

Creating conditional branches

Conditional branching provides an added level of logic to a 

workflow, allowing it to examine the properties of submitted jobs, 

and then act accordingly without human intervention.

You can add one or more conditional branches to a workflow, 

each with one or more user-designated conditions that specify the 

desired attributes or properties of the submitted jobs.

During execution, the condition(s) of each branch are compared 

with the information retrieved from the job. The first branch whose 

conditions or specifications “match” the properties retrieved from 

the job will be taken.  

Each Conditional node can include up to 12 branches; each 

branch can include up to 12 conditions that must be satisfied.

You can specify two main categories of conditions: 

•

PDF-related conditions

•

JDF ticket-related conditions

For more information about these conditions, see the 

Conditions 

to Add

 table.

The branches of a Conditional node can be merged into a 

common workflow. For more information, see 

Linking conditional 

branches

.

Conditional branching provides an alternative to using Preflight as 

a means to filter and route jobs. For more information, see 

Using 

preflight as a filter

.

See also:

Guidelines for successful conditional branching

Adding and configuring branch conditions

Conditional branch conditions

Managing conditional branches

Editing conditional branches

Deleting conditional branches

Linking conditional branches