Using Before and After Process scripts

You can run Before and After Process scripts, before and after each record.

Running scripts before and/or after individual records gives a script context for variable values, extracted using SOM expressions. See StreamServe variable mapping.

Mappings from SOM expressions to StreamServe variables are performed for each record (and even, if Evaluate variable for each page is enabled, for each page within a record). With this setting:

•	Enabled – The Before/After Process script is invoked for each record with these values.

•	Disabled – Only the values extracted from the last record will be available to the After Process script.

Note:

The very first Before Process script and the very last After Process script will be executed in the pre-process phase (before and after the actual process) as well as in the process phase. All the other Before and After Process scripts will be executed only in the process phase.

How it works – script execution order

The execution order of Before and After Process scripts during the process phase, with the setting Evaluate variable for each page enabled, is illustrated in the figure below.

Figure 15

Script execution order

1	The Before Process script is executed before the process invocation.

2	The Before Process script is executed before the first record.

3	The After Process script is executed after the first record.

4	The Before Process script is executed before any subsequent record.

5	The After Process script is executed after any subsequent record.

6	The Before Process script is executed before the last record.

7	The After Process script is executed after the last record.

8	The After Process script is executed after the Process end.

To enable Before and After Process scripts

You enable and disable this functionality in the Settings dialog by selecting the Run Before and After Process scripts, before and after each record. See Settings dialog box.

If this setting is selected, Before and After Process scripts will be executed before and after each record. If not selected, the before and after Process scripts will be executed before and after each Process.

For new Projects created in Production Print, this functionality is enabled by default.

For upgraded Projects, created in versions before LiveCycle Production Print ES2, this functionality is disabled by default and the previous behavior with scripts per Process applies.

Restrictions

The following scripts cannot be used in the before and after Process scripts when running on record level in the process phase:

•

CallProc

•

CallBlock

•	PreProcLog

•	EndDocument

•	SetExtJobId

•	GetJobResourceIndex

•	AddSortDef

•	AddSortKeys

•	ODBCConnect

•	ODBCDisconnect

•	SAPCreateFunction

•	SAPInvokeFunction2

•	SetDestPath