1.6
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 1.6.1
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Installation Pre-Requisites
- User accounts and security
- The Importance of User Credentials on Installing and Running PlanetPress Connect
- Installing PlanetPress Connect on Machines without Internet Access
- Installation Wizard
- Running Connect Installer in Silent Mode
- Activating a License
- Migrating to a new computer
- Information about PlanetPress Workflow 8
- Upgrading from PlanetPress Suite 7.6
- What do I gain by upgrading to PlanetPress Connect?
- Server Settings
- Uninstalling
- The DataMapper Module
- Basics
- Features
- Data Mapping Configuration
- Data Mapping Workflow
- The Data Model
- Data Source (Settings)
- DataMapper User Interface
- Defining Boolean Values
- Defining String Values
- Building String Values
- Defining Integer Values
- Building Integer Values
- Defining Float Values
- Building Float Values
- Defining Currency Values
- Building Currency Values
- Extracting dates
- Entering a date using JavaScript
- Defining Object Values
- DataMapper Scripts API
- The Designer
- Generating output
- Optimizing a template
- Generating Print output
- Saving Printing options in Printing Presets.
- Connect Printing options that cannot be changed from within the Printer Wizard.
- Print Using Standard Print Output Settings
- Print Using Advanced Printer Wizard
- Adding print output models to the Print Wizard
- Splitting printing into more than one file
- Variables available in the Output
- Generating Fax output
- Generating Tags for Image Output
- Generating Email output
- Generating Web output
- Release Notes
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
You can edit a Data Model directly from the Data Model pane. Right-click anywhere and a
contextual menu will appear, depending on the location. If you right-click inside the record itself,
you can add a field or a table. A field will simply be added at the end with no extraction, while a
table will be added with no fields inside.
The Data Model pane acts as a Data Model editor. If you create a new data mapping
configuration with nothing in it and your Data Model pane is empty, you can create it here and
then export it. Remember that the Data Model has nothing to do with the type of data. It does not
matter whether you do it from an XML, CSV or PDF.
TXT and PDF
Because PDF and text files do not have field names, but only areas from which data is
extracted, it is a bit more useful to have a Data Model, especially with the right field names.
When extracting data from a PDF or text file, you do have to go one line at a time or one field at
a time because For example, if you select a whole address block from the Viewer and try to
extract it into the data model address fields on the right, it is only going to map one field. If you
split it, it will create different fields using that address.
For more information about the operations that can be performed on the Data Model, please
refer to The Data Model Interface.
About Records and Fields
A record is defined as a block of information that refers to a single document for a single
recipient. A documentcan be anything, such as an invoice, a letter, a postcard, a report, a
contract. When defining records in the Data Sample (called Source Records), the concept of a
single documents and recipients is important. For instance, a Record should not contain
multiple invoices for a single client, nor should it contain multiple client addresses for
postcards.
While the record is a more general term, there are two more specific places where record is
used:
The Source Record is the piece of information as it is found in Sample Data. Source Records
are defined by Boundaries in the Settings Pane.
The Extracted Record, on the other hand, is a combination of data extracted from the Source
Record using the Extractor and data coming from other sources. Each Extracted Record is used
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