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
In order to create this data mapping configuration, the input data needed to be saved to a file
first (see "Sample Project: COTG Timesheets" on page150).
The sample data file is located in the Configurations\Data folder, but you will also see it when
you open the data mapping configuration itself.
The Workflow configuration
There are four processes in the COTG Timesheets Workflow configuration. Some of them use
the OL Connect tasks that are normally used in a Web process or a Print process (see "Web
processes with OL Connect tasks" on page192 and "Print processes with OL Connect tasks"
on page190).
Creating the forms
The cotg_ts_deploy_form process is triggered when any file enters the Workspace\In folder,
but its Execute Data Mapping task expects an XML file that is structured exactly like the Sample
Data.xml file (in the Resources\Data folder).
The Execute Data Mapping task outputs records in the Metadata.
Subsequently, the Metadata Sequencer task creates a loop; the rest of the process is
performed as many times as there are records in the Metadata, for one record at a time:
l The Set Job Infos and Variables task reads data from the (current record in the)
Metadata and puts them into variables.
l The Create Web Content task merges the record with the COTG Timesheet Form
template.
l The Send to Folder task saves the form to the Forms folder in the project folder, using the
value of one variable as the file name.
l Finally, the Output to Capture OnTheGo task sends information about the form to the
COTG Server. Double-click the task to see how variables are used in its settings.
The Delete task is an Output task that does nothing, actually; it doesn't even remove anything.
However, this step is useful when running the project step by step in Debug mode. Tasks will
only return their output to the process - where it can be viewed - as long as they are followed by
another task.
Serving a form
When the user chooses to download a form in the app, the app sends a request using the URL
that was set for the form in the properties of the Output to Capture OnTheGo task (on the
Deposit tab). The URL contains one parameter: a unique ID.
The cotg_ts_serve_form process receives the request and loads the form (if it exists). The
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