Integrating with Other Applications

In this section:

1. Introduction
2. Overview
   RICOH ProcessDirector provides several mechanisms for interacting with other applications. The mechanism you use depends on your goal and on the capabilities of the application.
3. Submitting jobs from other applications
   If your application is a document composition or a job submission tool, you can use hot folder or LPD input devices to get print jobs into RICOH ProcessDirector to be processed and printed.
4. Adding functions to workflows
   RICOH ProcessDirector workflows can be configured to send print jobs to other applications for additional processing and then receive them back into the system. The other applications can run on the server that holds the primary server, on a secondary server, or on an application server.
5. Using Web Services
   If your application provides a different interface for displaying information about the RICOH ProcessDirector system, or if it needs to extract information from RICOH ProcessDirector to do more processing, you can use web services to request different kinds of information and manage system objects.
6. RICOH ProcessDirector symbol notation
   You can use RICOH ProcessDirector symbol notation in formulas to describe the information source that RICOH ProcessDirector evaluates to set the value of a job property.
7. File system mapping file for job tickets
   The sample system_map.cfg found in /aiw/aiw1/samples/config/ (Linux) or C:\aiw\aiw1\samples\config\ (Windows) translates the file paths in JDF job tickets to the file paths of a mounted file system. You can copy this file into the /aiw/aiw1/control_files/config/ (Linux) or C:\aiw\aiw1\control_files\config\ (Windows) directory and edit it as necessary.
8. Syntax for RICOH ProcessDirector control files
   Various parts of RICOH ProcessDirector use the information in control files or control file templates to set and pass values for different properties. You can copy the control files and control file templates that RICOH ProcessDirector provides and modify them to meet the needs of the installation.
9. Database property names
   RICOH ProcessDirector messages might refer to properties by their database names instead of the field names that appear in property notebooks. Most of the database property names are similar to the names in the property notebooks, but they are written in a different format.
10. Job properties that can be set from the job ticket
    When you submit a job with a job ticket, RICOH ProcessDirector sets some job properties from values in the job ticket.