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Component Selection
After clicking the Next button, the Component Selection page appears, in which the different
components of PlanetPress Connect can be selected for installation.
The options are:
l Base: The installation files required for any PlanetPress Connect Connect installation.
This component is not optional.
l Designer: The Designer module (see "The Designer" on page475) can be installed
standalone (with no other installed modules)on as many machines as you like. It does
not require a license to run as a standalone designer tool . This allows any number of
people to use the Designer for creating jobs, but without production capabilities such as
automation and commingling. The Designer module is optional, but it is recommended
that it always be installed.
l Messenger: The Messenger Service that allows connection between Designer and
PlanetPress Connect Workflow. Recommended for all production installations.
l Server: The Connect Server back-end that provides Connect production capabilities such
as production content creation (print output, HTML content for emails and web pages),
automation, commingling and picking. It is also referred to as the Connect Master Server
in Connect clustered environments.
l MariaDB Server: A supplied MariaDBdatabase used by PlanetPress Connect.
The database is used for referencing temporary Connect files and for sorting temporarily
extracted data, and similar.
A pre-existing MariaDB, MySQL or Microsoft SQL server (referred to as an external
database, in this documentation) could be used instead, for the same purposes. The
external database could reside on the same computer or on a separate server.
If you wish to make use of an external database, please make sure the MariaDB option is
not selected.
Warning
If you chose not to install the supplied MariaDBdatabase, and instead opt for using
a pre-existing (External) database then you yourself must ensure that the External
database is accessible to Connect.
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