1.8
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 1.8
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Where to obtain the installers
- Installation - important information
- Installation - How to guides
- Activation
- Installation Prerequisites
- 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 workstation
- Information about PlanetPress Workflow 8
- Upgrading from PlanetPress Suite 6/7
- What do I gain by upgrading to PlanetPress Connect?
- Known Issues
- Issues with Microsoft Edge browser
- Worklfow - Execute Data Mapping - Issues with mutliple PDFs
- Installation Paths with Multi-Byte Characters
- Switching Languages
- GoDaddy Certificates
- MySQL Compatibility
- PostScript Print Presets
- Available Printer Models
- External Resources in Connect
- Using Capture After Installing Workflow 8
- Capturing Spool Files After Installing Workflow 8
- Colour Model in Stylesheets
- Image Preview in Designer
- Merge\Weaver Engines when Printing
- REST Calls for Remote Services
- Print Content and Email Content in PlanetPress Workflow
- Print Limitations when the Output Server is located on a different machine
- VIPP Output
- Server Configuration Settings
- Uninstalling
- General information
- The DataMapper Module
- DataMapper basics
- Data mapping configurations
- Data mapping workflow
- The Data Model
- DataMapper User Interface
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Menus
- Panes
- Example
- Settings for location-based fields in a Text file
- Settings for location-based fields in a PDF File
- Settings for location-based fields in CSV and Database files
- Settings for location-based fields in an XML File
- Text and PDF Files
- CSV and Database Files
- XML File
- Text and PDF Files
- CSV and Database Files
- XML Files
- Left operand, Right operand
- Condition
- Operators
- Text file
- PDF File
- CSV File
- XML File
- JavaScript
- Toolbar
- Welcome Screen
- DataMapper Scripts API
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Web
- Capture OnTheGo
- COTG Forms
- Creating a COTG Form
- Filling a COTG template
- Testing the template
- Sending the template to the Workflow tool
- Using COTG data in a template
- Designing a COTG Template
- Capture OnTheGo template wizards
- Using Foundation
- COTG Elements
- Using COTG Elements
- Testing a Capture OnTheGo Template
- Using the COTG plugin: cotg-2.0.0.js
- Dynamically adding COTG widgets
- Saving and restoring custom data and widgets
- Capture OnTheGo API
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing Content
- Writing your own scripts
- Designer User Interface
- Designer Script API
- Designer Script API
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Examples
- Creating a table of contents
- Example
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Replace elements with a snippet
- Replace elements with a set of snippets
- Example
- Example
- Creating a Date object from a string
- Control Script API
- Examples
- Generating output
- Print output
- Email output
- Web output
- Optimizing a template
- Generating Print output
- Saving Printing options in Print 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
- Print output variables
- Generating Fax output
- Generating Tags for Image Output
- Generating Email output
- Generating Web output
- Overview
- Connect 1.8 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Performance Related Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Capture OnTheGo (COTG) Enhancements and Fixes
- Workflow 8.8 Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- Overview
- Connect 1.7.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Workflow 8.7 Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- OL Connect Send
- Connect 1.6.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect Workflow 8.6 Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.5 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 8.5 Workflow Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.4.2 Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 New Features and Enhancements
- Connect 1.4.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 8.4.1 Workflow Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
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On lines: Triggers a new page in the Data Sample after a number of lines.
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Cut on number of lines: Triggers a new page after the given number of lines.
With this number set to 1, and the Boundaries set to On delimiter, it is possible
to create a record for each and every line in the file.
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Cut on FF: Triggers a new page after a Form Feed character.
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On text: Triggers a new page in the Data Sample when a specific string is found in
a certain location.
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Word to find: Compares the text value with the value in the data source.
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Match case: Activates a case-sensitive text comparison.
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Location: Choose Selected area or Entire width to use the value of the
current data selection as the text value.
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Left/Right: Use the spin buttons to set the start and stop columns to the
current data selection (Selected area) in the record.
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Lines before/after: This option places the delimiter a certain number of lines
before or after the current line. This is useful if the text that triggers the
delimiter is not on the first line of each page.
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Text from right to left: Sets the writing direction of the data source to right-to-left.
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Expand tabs to spaces: Replaces tabs with the given number of spaces.
XML File Input Data settings
For an XML file you can either choose to use the root node, or select an element type, to create
a new delimiter every time that element is encountered.
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Use root element: Locks the XML Elements option to the top-level element. No other
boundaries can be set. If there is only one top-level element, there will only be one record.
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XML elements: Displays a list containing all the elements in the XML file. Selecting an
element causes a new page of data to be created every time an instance of this element
is encountered.
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The information contained in all of the selected parent nodes will be copied for each
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