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
By default, when adding the Print context to an email, all Print sections are output to a single
PDF file, named after the email subject, which is then attached to the email. The PDF can be
protected with a password (see "Email PDF password" on page323).
When adding the Web context to an email, only the default Web section is generated and
added to the email as an HTML file that is named after the email subject.
Note
To split the Print context into multiple attachments, or to attach multiple Web sections as separate
attachments, you need to create a Control Script that specifies parts; see "Parts: splitting and
renaming email attachments" on page537.
This topic explains how to attach files other than those generated by the Print or Web context.
This is also described in a how-to; see Add custom email attachments.
Attaching external files
To attach files other than those generated by the Print or Web context to Email output:
1. Add the files to the template; see Adding images, or put them in a folder that is available
to the machine that outputs the emails.
2.
Create a script: on the Scripts pane at the bottom left, click New. A new script appears in
the list. Double-click on it to open it. If you are not familiar with scripts, see "Writing your
own scripts" on page515 for an explanation of how scripts work.
3. Change the name of the script, so that it reflects what the script does.
4.
Choose the option Selector and in the Selector field, type head.
5. Write a script that appends a <link> element to the results (the selector is head, so the
results contain the <head> of the email).
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Make sure to set the rel attribute to related.
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The href attribute determines where the file comes from. For resources inside of the
template, use 'images/file.extension' , or 'fonts/myfont.otf', etc.
For external resources, you need the full path to the file, such as
'file:///c:/resources/attachments/instructions.pdf'. Of course,
you can also use dynamic calls such as 'file:///c:/clientfiles/' +
record.fields.client_id + '/invoices/' +
record.fields.invoice_number + '.pdf'.
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