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
Suppose you want to display negative amounts in red and positive amounts in green.
Assuming that there is an AMOUNT field in your customer data, you could write the
following script (with the selector: td.amount, that is: table cells with the class 'amount').
var amount = record.fields.AMOUNT;
if (amount >= 0)
{results.css('color', 'green');}
else if (amount < 0) {
results.css('color', 'red');
}
When this script executes, it stores the value of the AMOUNT field from the current record
in a variable and evaluates it. If the value is zero or higher, the color of text in the results -
in this case they are cells with the CSS class 'amount' - will be set to green; if the value is
below zero, the text color will be set to red.
Tip
For more examples of using conditions, see this how-to: Combining record-based
conditions.
Designer API
Features like results and record do not exist in the native JavaScript library. These are
additional JavaScript features, designed for use in Connect scripts only. All features
designed for use in the Designer are listed in the Designer's API, with a lot of examples;
see "Designer Scripts API" on page729.
Managing scripts
Order of execution
When a record set is merged with a template to generate output, all scripts are executed once
for every record in the record set, in the order in which they appear in the Scripts pane at the
bottom left.
The order in which scripts are executed is particularly important when one script produces
content that contains a selector for another script. If the other script has already been executed,
it will not run again automatically. So, scripts that produce content that contains one or more
selectors for other scripts, need to come first.
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