2021.2
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 2021.2
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Where to obtain the installers
- Installation prerequisites
- User accounts and security
- 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
- Upgrading
- Server Configuration Settings
- Known Issues
- Uninstalling
- General information
- OL Connect projects
- The DataMapper
- DataMapper basics
- Data mapping configurations
- Creating a new data mapping configuration
- Opening a data mapping configuration
- Saving a data mapping configuration
- Down-saving a data mapping configuration
- Using the wizard for CSV and Excel files
- Using the wizard for databases
- Using the wizard for JSON files
- Using the wizard for PDF/VT or AFP files
- Using the wizard for XML files
- Advanced PCL to PDF options
- Data mapping workflow
- The Data Model
- DataMapper User Interface
- DataMapper Scripts API
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Web
- Capture OnTheGo
- COTG Forms
- Creating a COTG Form
- Filling a COTG template
- Sending the template to the Workflow tool
- Receiving and extracting data from a COTG Form
- 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
- Dynamically adding COTG widgets
- Saving and restoring custom data and widgets
- Using submitted COTG data in a template
- Capture OnTheGo API
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing content
- Preferences
- General preferences
- Clean-up Service preferences
- DataMapper preferences
- Database Connection preferences
- Editing preferences
- Email preferences
- Emmet preferences
- Engines preferences
- Hardware for Digital Signing preferences
- Language preferences
- Logging preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Print preferences
- Project Wizards preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Servers preferences
- Web preferences
- Writing your own scripts
- Script types
- Creating a new Standard Script
- Writing a script
- Setting the scope of a script
- Managing scripts
- Testing scripts
- Optimizing scripts
- The script flow: when scripts run
- Selectors in Connect
- Loading a snippet via a script
- Loading content using a server's API
- Using scripts in Dynamic Tables
- Control Scripts
- Post Pagination Scripts
- Translating templates
- Designer User Interface
- Designer Script API
- Functions and fields
- Example
- Functions and fields
- html()
- margins
- front, back
- Generating output
- Print output
- Email output
- Web output
- Generating Print output
- Generating Print output from the Designer
- Generating Print output from Workflow
- Print settings in a template
- Aborting content creation
- Print using standard print output settings
- Print Presets
- 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
- Optimizing a template
- Runtime parameters
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2021.2.1
- License Update Required for Upgrade to OL Connect 2021.x
- Backup before Upgrading
- Overview
- OL Connect 2021.2.1 Improvements
- OL Connect 2021.2 Designer Improvements
- OL Connect 2021.2 DataMapper Improvements
- OL Connect 2021.2 Output Improvements
- Workflow 2021.2 Improvements
- OL Connect 2021.2 Improvements
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2021.1
- OL PlanetPress ConnectRelease Notes 2020.2.1
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2020.1
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2019.2
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2019.1
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2018.2.1
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2018.1.6
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 1.8
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 1.7.1
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 1.6.1
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 1.5
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 1.4.2
- 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
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2021.2.1
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
l Negative Sign Before: Any value in a numeric field that has a "-" sign is interpreted as a
negative value.
l Decimal Separator: Set the decimal separator for a numerical value.
l Thousand Separator: Set the thousand separator for a numerical value.
l Currency Sign: Set the currency sign for a currency value.
l Date Format: Set the date format for a date value.
l Automatic: Select this option to parse dates automatically, without specifying a
format. This is the default setting for new Date fields.
l ISO8601: This setting allows for dates with different timestamp formats, or belonging
to different time zones, to be parsed inside a single job. Dates that do not include a
specific time are automatically considered to use the current locale's time zone.
Select the ISO template to be used when parsing the timestamp. Other ISO8601
formats can be handled via the Custom option.
l Custom: Set a custom date format. For the markers available in the DataMapper
see "Defining a date/time format" on page290.
l Language: Set the language for a date value (ex: If English is selected, the term May will
be identified as the month of May).
l Use offset from UTC: Select the default time zone, which is to be used to extract any
timestamp that does not already include time zone information with the time.
l Treat empty as 0: A numerical empty value is treated as a 0 value.
Note
Default data formats tell the DataMapper how certain types of data are formatted in the
data source. They don't determine how these data are formatted in the Data Model or in
a template. In the Data Model, data are converted to the native data type. Dates, for
example, are converted to a DateTime object in the Data Model, and will always be
shown as "year-month-day" plus the time stamp, for example: 2012-04-11 12.00 AM.
SQL Query Designer
The SQL Query Designer is used to design a custom SQL query to pull information from a
database. It can be opened by clicking the Custom SQL button on the Settings pane, under
Input Data.
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