2022.1
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 2022.1
- 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
- OL Connect automation with Node-RED
- Installation
- OL Connect nodes
- Connection settings for OL Connect Server
- OL Connect resources in Node-RED
- Flows in an OL Connect application
- Node-RED: nodes and common techniques
- OL Connect Startup flow
- An OL Connect email flow in Node-RED
- An OL Connect print flow in Node-RED
- An OL Connect preview PDF flow in Node-RED
- An OL Connect web flow in Node-RED
- Capture OnTheGo flows in Node-RED
- 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
- Sample Projects preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Servers preferences
- Versioning 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
- Handlebars in OL Connect
- 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 2022.1.2
- License Update Required for Upgrade to OL Connect 2022.x
- Backup before Upgrading
- Overview
- OL Connect 2022.1.2 Improvements
- OL Connect 2022.1.1 Improvements
- OL Connect 2022.1 Improvements
- OL Connect 2022.1 Designer Improvements
- OL Connect 2022.1 DataMapper Improvements
- OL Connect 2022.1 Output Improvements
- Workflow 2022.1 Improvements
- OL Connect 2022.1 Improvements
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2021.2.1
- 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 2022.1.2
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
l CMYK group (suitable for Print output only): Enter the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black
color values from 0 to 100 percent.
Note
Whenever one value within this dialog is changed, all the other values are adjusted to its
equivalent.
Colors Properties
The Colors Properties defines and sets named colors used in the template; see "Colors" on
page819. Named colors can be used throughout the templates, in all contexts. They are visible
in color selector dialogs and useable with their names in style sheets; see "Styling and
formatting" on page785.
l Color Type Selector: Click and use the drop-down to display which color types to show
in the list: All, RGB, CMYK or Spot colors.
l Color List: Displays the colors, filtered using the Color Type Selector.
l New: Create a new color using the Edit Color dialog (see below and see "Colors" on
page819).
l Edit: Edit the currently selected color using the Edit Color dialog (see below and see
"Colors" on page819).
l Delete: Delete the currently selected color.
l Duplicate: Duplicate the currently selected color using the name [color]CopyX.
Edit color
You can edit the following color properties.
l Name: Enter the name of the color. This name should not contain spaces or special
characters.
l Create name based on values: Check so that the name is automatically based on the
color slider values below.
l Type: Use the drop-down to specify which type of color this should be: either a Tint or a
Color.
l Option group: contains the options for the chosen type. Options change depending on
the selected type.
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