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
COTG Forms
A Capture OnTheGo Form is actually just a Web Form that has a number of characteristic
features:
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Its action always specifies a Workflow HTTP Server Input task, so that when the Form is
submitted, the form data is sent to the Workflow server. (See: "Specifying an action"
below.)
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It may contain special COTG Input elements, like a Signature, Geolocation, or Camera
element. These require the COTG JavaScript library to be added to the template. This
happens automatically when the Form is created with a COTG Template Wizard.
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Thanks to the mobile app, it may be used offline. The app will submit the Form data when
a connection to the internet is available. Just make sure, if the Form uses remotely stored
style sheets or JavaScript files, that the option 'Use cached Capture OnTheGo resource'
is enabled when adding the resources to the template. This prevents that the app tries to
download a file again that has already been downloaded.
Creating a COTG Form
A Capture OnTheGo Form is actually just a Web Form, so you could add a Form element to a
Web page in the Web context without the use of a Template Wizard. It is strongly recommended
however, to start the COTG Template using one of the COTG Template Wizards. They all
include the appropriate JavaScript files and style sheets to create user-friendly, responsive
forms; see "Capture OnTheGo template wizards" on page358.
Before starting to create a COTG Form, take some time to structure the design process and to
get familiar with the principles of form design, as explained in the topic "Designing a COTG
Template" on page355.
Specifying an action
The action of the Capture OnTheGo Form element should specify a Workflow HTTP Server
Input task (see Workflow Help: HTTP Server Input) that receives and handles the submitted
data. The action will look similiar to this: http://192.168.175.1:8080/actionname (where
actionname is the HTTP action of the HTTP Server Input task).
For information about specifying an action for a Form, see "Adding a Form" on page430 or
"Changing a Form's properties" on page433.
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