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 Text Group: Determines how text is displayed in labels and legends.
l Font: Type in the font-face to use to display text. The font must be installed on the
system and defaults to Verdana if the font is not found. (Equivalent to the
fontFamily property; see: fontFamily.)
l Size: Type in the size of the font. Defaults to 11. (Equivalent to the fontSize
property; see: fontSize.)
l Color: Type the color in which to display text: a valid hexademical color (HTML Hex
Color) or a predefined CSS color (CSS color names), or click the colored square to
open the Color Picker dialog ("Color Picker" on page960). (Equivalent to the
color property; see: color.)
l Slice Colors Group
Note
Settings made in this group override the settings made in the Chart Wizard (see
"Selecting data for a Business Graphic" on page703).
l Base Color: Enter a base color: a valid HTML hexadecimal color value (HTML Hex
Color) or a predefined CSS color (CSS color names), or click the colored square to
open the Color Picker dialog ("Color Picker" on page960). When a Base Color is
set, it will be the color of the first slice and the colors of all other slices are based on
this color. (Equivalent to the baseColor property; see: baseColor.)
To set a color for each data field individually, leave this option empty and edit the
script that fills the Pie Chart (see "Selecting data for a Business Graphic" on
page703).
l Brightness Step: Enter the amount of brightness to change on each new slice.
Positive values increase the brightness (max: 100), negative values decrease the
brightness (minimum: -100). Default is 10. (Equivalent to the brightnessStep
property; see: brightnessStep.)
l Slice Outline Group: Determines whether an outline should be added to each slice of the
chart.
l Width: Select the width of the outline for each pie slice. (Equivalent to the
outlineThickness property; see: outlineThickness.)
l Color: Enter a color for the outline: a valid HTML hexadecimal color value (HTML
Hex Color) or a predefined CSS color (CSS color names), or click the colored
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