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
Note
To add an Extract step, you can also use JavaScript (select JavaScript from the Mode drop-down
in the Step Properties pane). Please refer to DataMapper API for more information.
About Promotional and Transactional Data
Promotional data, like its name suggests it, is used for promotional communications. It usually
contains personal information like addresses, names and phone numbers used to identify the
recipient of these communications. Each recipient represents one record and records for
promotional data are fixed length. These communications are aimed to promote a product or
service, create a bond or establish a relationship with the customer.
Transactional data is used in the communication of transactions between a company and their
customers or suppliers. Examples of such communications are invoices, statements or
purchase orders. Because of the nature of transactions, records lengths vary from record to
record.
Steps
l Steps are executed sequentially, from top to bottom in a workflow.
l Inside conditions, some steps may be skipped altogether when they are on a particular
branch, whereas in loops several steps may be repeated a number of times.
l The Preprocessor and Postprocessor steps are special in that the former can be used to
modify the incoming data prior to executing the rest of the workflow while the latter can be
used to further process the Data Set after the entire workflow has been executed.
You will find below a list of different steps that can be added to a Data Mapping Workflow.
Note
For more details about operations that can be performed on steps, please refer to The
Steps Pane Interface.
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