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l If style sheets are used to style the email, the styles can be added either to the header of
the email or to inline style properties as if local formatting was applied (this is also called
"embedded CSS"). See "Email section properties" on page1016.
l PDF attachments can be compressed to make the files smaller; see "Compressing PDF
attachments" on page527.
Testing Email output
It can't be guaranteed that content will look the same in all email clients, particularly when it
comes to older client versions, so it is recommended to always test and validate the output by
sending a test email.
An example of a tool that can facilitate testing to ensure a consistent look and feel is Litmus:
https://litmus.com/email-testing.
If you have a Litmus account, you can enter your Litmus test address when sending a test email
(see "Generating Email output from Connect Designer" below).
To narrow down the field of potential email clients by finding out which email clients are most
commonly used by your target audience you can use Litmus' analytics tool (see
https://litmus.com/email-analytics).
Generating Email output from Connect Designer
To generate Email output from the Designer:
1. Open a template with an Email context.
2. Load a data file or database compatible with this template, or open a data mapping
configuration. See "Loading data" on page792.
If you have an open data mapping configuration and open another data file, the current
data mapping configuration will try to retrieve data from the file or database using its own
Data Model and extraction logic.
Note
When generating output with just an open data mapping configuration, the template
is merged with the complete sample data file that is part of the data mapping
configuration. The output is not limited to the number of records shown in the Data
Model pane (which is one of the settings in the DataMapper).
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