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
Email template
It is strongly recommended to start creating an Email template with a Wizard; see "Creating an
Email template with a Wizard" on page320. Designing HTML email that displays properly on a
variety of devices and screen sizes is challenging. Building an email is not like building for the
web. While web browsers comply with standards (to a significant extent), email clients do not.
Different email clients interpret the same HTML and CSS styles in totally different ways.
When an Email template is created, either with a Wizard or by adding an Email context to an
existing template (see "Adding a context" on page279), the Email context folder is created
along with other files that are specific to an Email context; see "Email context" on page324.
Only one Email section is created at the start, but you can add as many Email sections as you
need; see "Email templates" on page326. However, when the Designer merges a data set to
generate output from the Email context, it can merge only one of the templates with each
record; see "Generating Email output" on page830.
Email templates are personalized just like any other template; see "Variable Data" on
page510.
Sending email
When the template is ready, you can change the email settings (see "Email header settings" on
page329) and send the email directly from the Designer or via Workflow. To test a template,
you can send a test email first.
Output, generated from an Email template, can have the following attachments:
l The contents of the Print context, in the form of a single PDF attachment.
l The output of the Web context, as an integral HTML file.
l Other files, an image or a PDF leaflet for example.
Attaching the Print context and/or the Web context is one of the options in the Send (Test)
Email dialog.
See "Email attachments" on page333 and "Generating Email output" on page830.
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