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
2.
Configure settings for the data source.
Configure how the Data Sample is read by the DataMapper so it can delimit each record
in the file (using Delimiters). See Data Source.
3.
Configure the data extraction workflow.
Configure the workflow steps that will be required to extract the data from the Data source
to the Data Model. This way, data will be converted and prepared to be used by the
Designer module. To learn more, see Data Extraction.
4.
Editing the Data Model.
In this step you can change the data type of fields, add fields, use JavaScript to change
the value of a field and much more. To learn more, see The Data Model Interface.
What's Next?
Use the Designer module to create templates for personalized customer communications. To
learn more, see The Designer Module.
Features
The DataMapper Module is a tool that extract data and prepares it for use in the Designer
module. The tool does this through the use of a Data Mapping Workflow consisting of multiple
Steps which process and extract data from each Source Record of a Data Source and stores it
in a Record Set.
Data Mapping Configuration
A Data Mapping Configuration file can refer to either the current active configuration in the
DataMapper, or a file on disk containing the information necessary for data mapping. It contains
the extraction workflow (steps), Delimiter and Boundary Settings, and any imported Data
Samples.
Data Mapping Workflow
The data mapping workflow is a series of Steps inside of a data mapping configuration that
extract the appropriate data from the Source Record and places it into the Record (see Data
Model).
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