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
Uninstalling PlanetPress Connect from the previous workstation
It is recommended to keep the previous install for a few days until everything is completed.
However, once your transition is successful and complete, the OL Connect software must be
uninstalled from the original server. See "Uninstalling" on page124.
Information about PlanetPress Workflow
If you wish to use PlanetPress Workflow (automation) in conjunction with PlanetPress Connect,
you will need to install PlanetPress Workflow 2021.2 as well. Workflow 2021.2 is provided
through a separate installer which is available on CD or for download as follows:
l If you are a Customer, the installer can be downloaded from the Objectif Lune Web
Activations page: http://www.objectiflune.com/activations
l If you are a Reseller, the installer can be downloaded from the Objectif Lune Partner
Portal: http://extranet.objectiflune.com/
PlanetPress Workflow can be installed in parallel on the same machine as an existing
PlanetPress® Suite 7.x installation.
Note however:
l If both versions need to be hosted on the same machine, PlanetPress Workflow 2021.2
must always be installed after the legacy PlanetPress® Suite 7.x installation.
l When uninstalling PlanetPress Workflow 2021.2, you may be prompted to repair your
legacy PlanetPress® Suite 7.x installation.
l If PlanetPress Workflow 2021.2 has been installed alongside PlanetPress® Suite 7,
Capture can no longer be used with Workflow 7.
The plugins are now registered uniquely to Workflow 2021.2 and the messenger for
Workflow 7 is taken offline. It is only then possible to use Capture from PlanetPress
Workflow 2021.2.
l PlanetPress Workflow 2021.2 and PlanetPress® Suite Workflow 7 cannot run
simultaneously, since only one version of the Messenger service can run at a time. In fact,
no two versions of Workflow can be run simultaneously on the same machine, regardless
of versions.
l It is possible to switch between different versions running by shutting down one version's
services and then starting the other. However, this is not recommended. There are no
technical limitations that prevent processes from previous PlanetPress Suite Workflow
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