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Note
When you send a test email, the Email To Script will not be used; instead, the email
will be sent to the address that you specify in the Send Test Email dialog. If you
have a Litmus account, you can enter your Litmus test address. To make the test
address appear by default, you can set the default test address in the Email
Preferences: select Window > Preferences, click the arrow next to Email, click
General and type the test address next to Email Test address.
See also: "Testing Email output" on page1445.
Tip
For a detailed description of how to use Mandrill with Connect to send and track emails, see the
following how-to: Using Mandrill.
Generating Email output from Workflow
Here's how to generate Email output from Workflow:
1. Send the required files to PlanetPress Workflow: the template that contains the Email
context, and any data mapping configuration that you want to use to extract data from a
data file. See: "Sending files to Workflow" on page429.
Note
If the input data is JSON, a data mapping configuration isn't needed.
2. Create a process in PlanetPress Workflow. See: "Email processes with OL Connect
tasks" on page182.
Aborting content creation
You may want the content creation process to be aborted in certain situations; for example,
when a template script fails to load remote content. To abort the content creation process, you
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