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Typically, a pURL in a Connect template takes the user to a personalized landing page, for
example, to download an invoice or get access to specific products or services.
In addition to the pURL, to generate a personalized landing page the Connect Server needs a
template with a Web context and a Workflow process with the following tasks:
l A HTTP Server Input task to capture incoming web requests.
l An Execute Data Mapping task to create the record set appropriate for the template.
l A Create Web Content task that generates the HTML files.
Creating a personalized URL
Creating a personalized URL implies writing a script. See "Write your own scripts" on page
376.
It also requires some planning, because the pURL needs to contain data that is necessary to
create the web page. For instance, creating a personalized URL for a client's invoice may
require the Invoice Number to be present in the URL, which is then used to retrieve the invoice
data, generate the invoice in PDF or HTML format using a template, and then return it to the
browser. The trick is then to add the designated information to a hyperlink. How to do this is
described in a how-to; see How to dynamically insert a hyperlink.
Print
With the Designer you can create one or more Print templates and merge the template with a
data set to generate personal letters, invoices, policies etc.
The Print context is the folder in the Designer that can contain one or more Print sections.
Print templates, also called Print sections, are part of the Print context. They are meant to be
printed to a printer or printer stream, or to a PDF file (see "Generating Print output" on page
309).
The Print context can also be added to Email output as a PDF attachment; see "Generating
Email output" on page 320. When generating output from the Print context, each of the Print
sections is added to the output document, one after the other in sequence, for each record.
When a Print template is created (see "Creating a Print template with a Wizard" on page 426),
or when a Print context is added to an existing template (see "Adding a context" on page 222)
the Print context folder is created along with other folders and files that are specific to a Print
context; see "Print context" on the facing page.
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