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
MySQL Compatibility
After installing Connect 1.5 a downgrade to a Connect version earlier than Connect 1.3 or to a
MySQL version earlier than 5.6.25 is not seamlessly possible. This is because the database
model used in Connect 1.3 and later (MySQL 5.6) is different to that used in earlier versions. If
you need to switch to an older version of Connect / MySQL, it is first necessary to remove the
Connect MySQL Database folder from "%ProgramData%\Connect\MySQL\data" before
installing the older version.
PostScript Print Presets
The print presets for PostScript were changed from Version 1.1 onwards meaning that some
presets created in Version 1.0 or 1.0.1 may no longer work.
Any PostScript print preset from Version 1.0 that contains the following will not work in Version
1.5: *.all[0].*
Any preset containing this code will need to be recreated in Version 1.5.
Available Printer Models
Note that only the single Printer Model (Generic PDF) will appear on the Advanced page of the
Print Wizard by default.
To add additional printer models click on the settings button next to the Model selection
entry box.
Note that the descriptions of some of the printers were updated in version 1.2 meaning that if
you had version 1.n installed, you may find that the same printer style appears twice in the list,
but with slightly different descriptions.
For example the following printer types are actually identical:
l Generic PS LEVEL2 (DSC compliant)
l Generic PS LEVEL2 (DSC)
External Resources in Connect
There are certain limitations on how external resources can be used in Connect. For example if
you want to link a file (e.g., CSS, image, JavaScript etc.) from a location on the network but you
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