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
Description
This subsection is collapsed by default in the interface, to allow more screen space be given to
other important parts.
Name: The name of the step. This name will be displayed on top of the step's icon in the Steps
pane.
Comments: The text entered here gives more details on the step and will be displayed in the
tooltip appearing when hovering over the step in the Steps pane.
Data Types
Looking at the Data Model pane, you will see that the fields are either string or HTML string,
depending on how they were extracted. Basically, it is all just text. But inside the DataMapper
module, which is very useful when we’re actually working with the data in a template, you can
change the actual type of data that is being extracted so that it can be evaluated differently.
How can it be changed? Simply by clicking on any field where you want to modify the data
type. You then go to the bottom of the Step Properties pane and click the Type drop-down.
Changing the type does not only determine the data type inside your record. It also sets the way
it will be read into the Data Source. In the following example, if you select a date type, it actually
causes an error because the format inside the Source Record is not recognized. The format is
"year year year year month month day day" but the default format, in this case, adds the time. If
you remove that, it will actually apply the change. So, visually speaking, only two things have
been changed in the record: a little calendar icon now appears, indicating that it is a date type,
and you can see that a time stamp was added..
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