1.6
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 1.6.1
- 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
- Running 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
- Features
- 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
- 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
How to Use a Data Model?
The Data Model is simply a file containing that structure and all you need to do is to import that
Data Model file into your data mapping configuration in order to be able to use it. When you
import the Data Model, it appears in the Data Model pane where you can see all the fields and
their types.
Once imported a Data Model can be modified. You can delete or add fields, or change their
type. Once the data model is imported and all the fields properly set, all you need to do is
extract the information. That is done simply via drag & drop.
Note
The order in which these panes are displayed corresponds to the order in which they are normally
used to create a data mapping configuration.
XML and Tabular Data
Multiple fields can be extracted by using a database or an XML file. To extract multiple fields
inside a tabular data type or an XML, simply select all the fields and drag & drop them.
Depending on where they are dropped, they will react a bit differently. When you drag & drop
fields directly from the Viewer to the first field ID in the Data Model pane, it takes the number of
fields and it overwrites the values inside the Data Model one after the other. If you have small
corrections to make, like inverting the first and last names, simply override the individual fields.
It will not create duplicate extractions; it will simply fix the current extraction.
If your Data Sample has fields that are named the same way as the imported Data Model, the
simpler thing to do is to drag & drop them inside the record table itself, not directly on a field.
When you do this, the DataMapper module automatically matches all the fields with the same
name and adds any field that is not already there.
The Data Model can also contain detailed tables and nested tables. These are used in the
same way: you can simply drag & drop your selection into the detail table to extract the data.
However, as in a normal data mapping, a loop is needed before extracting detail lines. Once a
loop has been created, you can select everything and drag & drop it into the detail table (see
the Repeat step for more information about loops).
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