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
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Location: Choose Selected area or Entire width to use the value of the
current data selection as the text value.
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Left/Right: Use the spin buttons to set the start and stop columns to the
current data selection (Selected area) in the Source Record.
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Lines before/after: Defines the delimiter a certain number of lines before or
after the current line. This is useful if the text triggering the delimiter is not on
the first line of each page.
For a XML File
XML is a special file format because these file types can have theoretically an unlimited
number of structure types. The input data has two simple options that basically determine at
which node level a new record is created. Use root node uses the complete XML file as a
single Source Record. The XML nodes option list all the node. Choosing one creates a new
delimiter every time that a node is encountered.
Note
The information contained in all of the selected parent nodes will be copied for each instance of that
node. For example, if a client node contains multiple invoice nodes, the information for the client
node can be duplicated for each invoice.
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Use root element: Locks the XML Elements option to the top-level element. If there is
only one top-level element, there will only be one record before the Boundaries are set.
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XML elements: Displays a list containing all the elements in the XML file. Selecting an
element causes a new page of data to be created every time an instance of this element
is encountered.
The Boundaries
When the Data Source is received by the DataMapper, it has no boundaries to tell the
DataMapper if it contains different records or where each of those records begins and ends.
This is because boundaries are not actual bits of data (like a character or a field would be).
Boundaries are a logical structure outside the Data Source (note that some formats like
PDF/VT actually include structured information, but those are the exception rather than the
rule). Boundaries are therefore a form of metadata. You could very well use the exact same
data with a different boundary structure in order to extract different information. Think, for
instance, of an Invoice Run stored in a PDF. You can use a structure where each invoice is a
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