1.5
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 1.5
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Installation Pre-Requisites
- User accounts and security
- The Importance of User Credentials on Installing and Running PlanetPress Connect
- Installing PlanetPress Connect on Machines without Internet Access
- Installation Wizard
- How to Run Connect Installer in Silent Mode
- Activating a License
- Migrating to a new computer
- Information about PlanetPress Workflow 8
- Upgrading from PlanetPress Suite 7.6
- What do I gain by upgrading to PlanetPress Connect?
- Server Settings
- Uninstalling
- The DataMapper Module
- Basics
- Data Mapping Configuration
- Data Mapping Workflow
- The Data Model
- Data Source (Settings)
- DataMapper User Interface
- Defining Boolean Values
- Defining String Values
- Building String Values
- Defining Integer Values
- Building Integer Values
- Defining Float Values
- Building Float Values
- Defining Currency Values
- Building Currency Values
- Extracting dates
- Entering a date using JavaScript
- Defining Object Values
- DataMapper Scripts API
- The Designer
- Generating output
- Print output
- Email output
- Web output
- Optimizing a template
- Generating Print output
- Saving Printing options in Printing Presets.
- Connect Printing options that cannot be changed from within the Printer Wizard.
- Print Using Standard Print Output Settings
- Print Using Advanced Printer Wizard
- Adding print output models to the Print Wizard
- Splitting printing into more than one file
- Variables available in the Output
- Generating Fax output
- Generating Tags for Image Output
- Generating Email output
- Generating Web output
- Release Notes
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
in the Designer module to generate a single documentfor a singlerecipient, and is part of
theRecord Set, the complete information being generated by a data mapping configuration and
later merged with a template created in Designer.
A Field is part of a record and contains a single piece of data from that record.
Data Model File Structure
The Data Model file is a XML file that contains the structure of the data model, including each
field's name, data type, and any number of detail tables and nested tables.
Example for promotional data, including a simple name and address:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<datamodel schemaVersion="1.0.0.3" name="Generic Address Block"
version="1"
xmlns="http://www.objectiflune.com/connectschemas/DataModelConfig"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.objectiflune.com/connectschemas/Data
ModelConfig
http://www.objectiflune.com/connectschemas/DataModelConfig/1_0_0_
3.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<field type="string" name="Name" required="true"/>
<field type="string" name="Organization" required="true"/>
<field type="string" name="Address1" required="true"/>
<field type="string" name="Address2" required="true"/>
<field type="string" name="Address3" required="true"/>
<field type="string" name="City" required="true"/>
<field type="string" name="StateOrProvince" required="true"/>
<field type="string" name="Country" required="true"/>
<field type="string" name="ZipOrPostalCode" required="true"/>
<field type="string" name="Extra1" required="true"/>
<field type="string" name="Extra2" required="true"/>
</datamodel>
Example with transactional details, a simple invoice format
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<datamodel schemaVersion="1.0.0.3" name="Transactional Invoice"
version="1"
xmlns="http://www.objectiflune.com/connectschemas/DataModelConfig"
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