7.4

Create a User-Defined Emulation
Since User-Defined emulations are based on PlanetPressTalk commands, please see the chapter on PlanetPress Talk for
more information no creating user-defined emulations.
Associate a Sample Data File with a Document
This procedure describes how to associate a sample data file with your document using either the Data Selector or the Data
Pane of the Program window. Note that this does not apply to Database Emulations, which are configured using a database
connection (see Database Emulation)
To associate a sample data file with your document, do any of the following:
l In the Data Selector, click the Browse button to the right of the Sample data file box to browse and select a sample
data file.
l In the Data Selector, in the Sample data file box, enter the path of the new sample data file and either press ENTER, or
click outside the Sample data file box.
l In Windows Explorer, select the sample data file, and drag and drop it into any of the following areas of the PlanetPress
Design Program window: the Structure area, the Page area, the Data Pane, or, if the Object Inspector is displaying an
image resource, the Object Inspector.
PlanetPress Design makes a copy of the sample data file and stores it within the document. The Sample data file box displays
the path of the sample data file and the first data page of the sample data file appears in the Data Pane. It also automatically
selects an emulation that corresponds to the file name extension of the sample data file you select, using the following table:
File name extension: Emulation:
csv
CSV
dat, txt Line printer
db, dbf, mdb Database
pdf
PDF
You can set the User Options to have PlanetPress Design monitor the original sample data file and prompt for confirmation to
update its internal copy if it detects changes in the original. See "Notification Messages Preferences" (page 69).
Metadata
Simply put, metadata is data about data or, in other words, information tagged to data. Metadata includes information about
the data file itself, the document, page properties, page counts and custom user fields.
Applications or plug-ins created in PlanetPress Suite 6 and using Metadata will need to be updated for use in version 7.
No backward compatibility mode is available.
When a user-defined emulation is used with metadata, results and behavior are unknown and unsupported. For
instance, refreshing the metadata file may cause the document to crash and/or corrupt. For this reason, it is strongly
advised to create backup copies of your documents beforehand.
Metadata structure
Metadata in PlanetPress Suite Version 7 introduces the following concepts for adding information to a job:
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