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
show within the email client. Unfortunately, desktop, webmail, and mobile clients all use
different rendering engines, which support different subsets of HTML and CSS. More often than
not, the result of these operations is that they completely break the HTML email's layout.
Designing HTML email in PlanetPressDesigner
The problem of HTML email is that preprocessing and rendering engines break the HTML
email's layout. HTML tables, however, are mostly left untroubled. As they are supported by
every major email client, they are pretty much the only way to design HTML emails that are
universally supported. That's why Tables are heavily used to position text and images in HTML
email.
Nesting tables (putting tables in table cells) and applying CSS styles to each table cell to make
the email look good on all screen sizes is a precision work that can be a tedious and
demanding. Connect's Designer offers the following tools to make designing HTML email
easier.
Email templates: Slate and others
The most obvious solution offered in the Designer is to use one of the templates provided with
the Designer; see "Creating an Email template with a Wizard" on page311. The layout of these
templates has been tested and proven to look good in any email client, on any device and
screen size. The Tables in these templates are nested (put inside another table) and they have
no visible borders, so readers won't notice them.
Tip
Click the Edges button on the toolbar to make borders of elements visible on the Design
tab. The borders will not be visible on the Preview tab or in the output.
Emmet
Emmet is a plugin that enables the lightning-fast creation of HTML code though the use of a
simple and effective shortcut language. The Emmet functionality is available in the HTML and
CSS source editors of Connect Designer. Emmet transforms abbreviations for HTML elements
and CSS properties to the respective source code. The expansion of abbreviations is invoked
with the Tab key.
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