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
After loading a Data Mapping Configuration or data from a data file or database (see "Loading
data" on page488), you can add variable data fields to the contents of your template. You can
do this via the drag-and-drop method, or using the Text Script Wizard.
Use the Text Script Wizard when there are empty fields in the data, and the value of a data
field needs to be preceded or followed by a space, line break or text in the template. Otherwise,
empty data fields will cause empty lines and superfluous white spaces to show up in the text.
You should also use this method for blocks of data, such as address blocks, and when you
want to format data differently, for example, when you want a number to be displayed as a
currency.
You can use the drag-and-drop method for simple fields that do not need to be preceded or
followed by a space, line break or text.
Note
Web templates are personalized just like any other template. There are a few extra possibilities,
though; see "Using variable data on a Web page" on page334.
Inserting variable data directly (drag-and-drop)
An easy, quick and direct way to insert variable data in the content is via drag and drop:
1. Open the section you want to add the data field to.
2.
Drag and drop a data field from the Data Model pane at the bottom right into the content
of your template.
To select and insert multiple data fields at the same time, press Shift or Ctrl, whilst
selecting fields in the Data Model pane.
What happens is that:
o
A placeholder for the value of the data field shows up in the text. It looks as follows:
@FIELDNAME@.
o
A text script appears in the Scripts pane at the bottom left.
A text script replaces placeholders in the content with the value of a data field in the current
record.
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