Storing documents in the Post-processor repository You use a Post-processor repository output connector to store data from PageOUT Processes in the post-processing repository. You can use a separate repository for storing resources, such as overlays and fonts. This resource repository can be used as a common source for several document repositories. See Configuring a Post-processor repository output connector. Document trigger Since the post-processing repository stores documents, you must specify the variable, for example the customer ID, that triggers the creation of a new document in the job. See Specifying document trigger Variables Variables that are included in the PageOUT processes can be used when the documents are post-processed. You must specify these variables when you store documents in the post-processing repository, if you want to use them to create statistics or for specifying sheet layout, labels or OMR marks. See Specifying variables to be used for post-processing documents. Metadata Metadata are variables that associate the value of a variable to a specific document. Metadata is stored along with the corresponding documents. You use metadata to: • Identify the documents in the Post-processor Repository Tool. • Select documents to be printed or deleted. • Sort and bundle documents into envelopes. See Specifying metadata to be used for post-processing documents. Compressing data If possible, you should compress jobs that contain many or large documents before storing them in the post-processing repository. This keeps the repository size down and enables documents to be retrieved faster. For smaller jobs it can be more efficient not to compress the data. The data is compressed by default. See Enabling compression of data stored in post-processing repository. Job info file A Job info file is a query file that specifies all documents within the job. When you store the documents in the post-processing repository, you can simultaneously create a Job info file. You can use the Job info file to for example retrieve the stored job directly for printing via a Directory input connector. See Creating a Job Info file. Post-processing repository user authentication If the post-processing repository is password protected, you must specify a user name and password for accessing the repository. You can password protect a repository using the StreamServe Repository Tool. To be able to write to the post-processing repository, you must specify the user name and password on the Post-processor repository output connector.