Patent ID: 7983943

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of managing a printing workflow program, the method comprising: receiving an indication of a modification to a selected node corresponding to a prepress process step in the printing workflow program; saving the modification to the selected node in a save event; accessing, by a processor and in response to the save event, a table to determine a peer association group associated with the selected node; identifying at least one peer-to-peer node of the peer association group; propagating the modification to the at least one peer-to-peer node; selecting a pre-existing process node in the printing workflow program; specifying an association group for the pre-existing process node; providing a list of printing workflow programs that contain a same type of pre-existing process nodes as the pre-existing process node; selecting an additional pre-existing process node of the same type of the pre-existing process nodes from the list of printing workflow programs; adding the additional pre-existing process node to the association group; designating process nodes in the association group in a peer-to-peer relationship; and displaying a graphical artifact indicating the peer-to-peer relationship of the process nodes in the association group, wherein the steps of identifying, propagating, selecting, specifying, providing, adding, designating and displaying are performed by a processor.