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
Note
When referring to images or fonts from a CSS file, you need to remember that the current path is
css/, meaning you can't just call images/image.jpg. Use a relative path, for example: #header {ī
background-image: url('../images/image.jpg'); }
External resources
External resources are not stored in the template, but on the local hard drive or on a network
drive. They are accessed using a path. The path must have forward slashes, for example <img
src="file:///c:/resources/images/signatures/johnsmith.gif"> or var json_variables = loadjson
("file:///d:/jsondata/variables.json");. The complete syntax is:īfile://<host>/<path>. If the
host isī"localhost", it can be omitted, as it is in the example, resulting inīfile:///<path>. The
empty string is interpreted as `the machine from which the URL is being interpreted'.
Network paths are similar: results.loadhtml
("file://servername/sharename/folder/snippet.html"); (note that in this case file is
followed by 2 slashes only).
Some limitations
l Style sheets cannot refer to external resources.
l The Connect Server user needs access to whichever network path is used. If the network
path is on a domain, the Connect Server must be identified with domain credentials that
have access to the domain resources.
For more information on network paths, please see this Wikipedia entry: file URI scheme.
Web resources
Web resources are simply accessed using a full URL. This URL needs to be publicly
accessible: if you type in that URL in a browser on the server, it needs to be visible.
Authentication is possible only through URL Parameters
(http://www.example.com/data.json?user=username&password=password) or through HTTP
Basic Auth (http://username:password@www.example.com/data.json).
Resources can also be called from a PlanetPress Workflow instance:
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