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
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A collection of Snippets in the Snippets folder on the Resources pane. The Snippets
contain ready-to-use parts to build the web page. Double-click to open them. See
"Snippets" on page464 for information about using Snippets.
l Images: icons, one picture and one thumbnail picture. Hover your mouse over the names
of the images in the Images folder on the Resources pane to get a preview.
The Wizard opens the Web section, so that you can fill it with text and other elements; see
"Content elements" on page385, "Web Context" on page340 and "Web pages" on page341.
Web pages can be personalized just like any other type of template; see "Variable Data" on
page510 and "Personalizing Content" on page499.
Tip
Use the Outline pane at the left to see which elements are present in the template and to
select an element.
Use the Attributes pane at the right to see the current element's ID, class and some other
properties.
Use the Styles pane next to the Attributes pane to see which styles are applied to the
currently selected element.
Tip
Click the Edges button on the toolbar to highlight borders of elements on the Design tab.
The borders will not be visible on the Preview tab.
Web Template Wizards
Foundation
All Web Template Wizards in Connect Designer make use of the Zurb Foundation front-end
framework. A front-end framework is a collection of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to build
upon. Foundation is a responsive framework: it uses CSS media queries and a mobile-first
approach, so that websites built upon Foundation look good and function well on multiple
devices including desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and mobile phones. Foundation is
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