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
Example
currentPosition()
Returns the current position of the pointer in the data. Depending on the type of data being
processed, the return value may be a string (e.g. XPath value in XML), an integer (e.g. line
numbers in text ot tabular data), or a measure in millimeters(e.g. PDF data).
Example
extract()
Extracts the text value from a rectangular region. All coordinates are expressed as characters.
The extract method always returns a String data type.
extract(left, right, verticalOffset, regionHeight, separator)
Extracts a value from a position in a text file.
left
Number that represents the distance from the left edge of the page to the left edge of the
rectangular region.
right
Number that represents the distance from the left edge of the page to the right edge of the
rectangular region.
verticalOffset
Number that represents the distance from the current vertical position.
regionHeight
Number that represents the total height of the region.
separator
String inserted between all lines returned from the region. An empty string can be specified.
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