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
merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections['Policy'].background.start =
2;
merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections['Policy'].background.start =
5;
Example
This scripts sets a background on a Print section using absolute positioning.
var activeSection = merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections['Section
1'];
activeSection.background.source = BackgroundResource.RESOURCE_PDF;
activeSection.background.url = "images/somepage.pdf";
activeSection.background.position = MediaPosition.ABSOLUTE;
activeSection.background.left = "10mm";
activeSection.background.top = "10mm";
You could replace the last three lines of the previous script by the following line to scale the
Print section background to Media size:
activeSection.background.position = MediaPosition.FIT_TO_MEDIA;
Dynamically adding sections (cloning)
This topic explains how to clone a section in a Control Script, Print sections can be cloned, so
that a document can have a dynamic number of sections, based on data. This is particularly
useful when the record set defines one or more PDFs (e.g. insurance policies) per recipient.
Via a Control Script, for each PDF a section can be cloned and each clone can be given one of
the PDFs as background (see "Control Script: Setting a Print section's background" on
page540). For each page in the PDF, a page will be added to the section.
For information about Control Scripts in general, see "Control Scripts" on page532 and
"Control Script API" on page782. If you don't know how to write scripts, see "Writing your own
scripts" on page515.
Cloning a section
To clone a section, first use the clone() function and then add the clone to the Print context
before or after a specific section, using addAfter() or addBefore():
var clone = printSections["Section 1"].clone();
printSections["Section 1"].addAfter(clone);
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