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
Use background images wisely
Most mail clients do not support background images: a very good reason to stay away from
them in your mainstream email campaign. There is one situation in which they do come in
handy. Both iPhone and Android default mail have solid CSS support and cover most of the
mobile marketspace. You could use background images to substitute images when viewed on
these devices. This is done by hiding the actual image and showing a mobile-friendly image as
background image instead. This is a technique used in Responsive Email Design.
Creating an Email template with a Wizard
With the Designer you can design Email templates as well as PDF attachments. PDF
attachments are designed in the Print context; see "Print context" on page289.
It is strongly recommended to start creating an Email template with a Wizard, because
designing HTML email that displays properly on a variety of devices and screen sizes is
challenging. Email clients can, and will, interpret the same HTML and (inline) CSS in totally
different ways (see "Designing an Email template" on page317).
With an Email Template Wizard you can easily create an Email template that outputs emails
that look good on virtually any email client, device and screen size.
After creating an Email template, the other contexts can be added to it, as well as other sections
(see "Contexts" on page278 and "Email templates" on page326).
To create an Email template with a Template Wizard:
1.
In the Welcome screen that appears after startup:
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Choose Browse Template Wizards.
Scroll down until you see the Email Template Wizards. There are three types of
Email Template Wizards:
l Basic Email templates
l Banded Email templates
l Slate: Responsive Email templates by Litmus.
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Or choose Create a New Template and select the Email template. This starts the
Basic Action Email wizard.
Alternatively, on the File menu, click New, and:
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