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
10.
Hover over the name of the script in the Scripts pane. In the workspace you will see
which parts of the template are affected by the script. If the script produces an error, the
error message will be displayed in a hint on the Scripts pane.
Tip
When one of the included data fields is empty, the respective line, including the
prefix and suffix, is skipped. The result of the script will be shorter, causing the rest
of the content to move up or down. If, in a Print context, you don't want the result of
the script to be part of the text flow (for example, when a letter is going to be sent in
an envelope with a window), put the placeholder for the script in a positioned box
(see "Boxes" on page432 and "How to position elements" on page478).
Tip
An example of how to create an address block using the Text Script Wizard is described in a how-
to; see How to create an Address Block.
Formatting variable data
When a Text Script, made with the Text Script Wizard (see "Using the Text Script Wizard" on
page513) adds variable data to a template, it can easily change the way the data are formatted
as well. This is done in the Text Script Wizard through a special formatting modifier or a format
mask for each field that the script adds to the template.
The available formatting functions depend on the data type of the corresponding field in the
Data Model. In a Data Mapping Configuration you can set the data type of each field. When you
open a data file or database without a Data Mapping Configuration, all fields are text fields
(fields of the type string).
You could also format data in a script using the formatter ; see "Designer Scripts API" on
page742.
Date
Dates in variable data can be displayed as long, medium and short dates with different time
displays. There are quite a few presets, but you can also enter a custom format mask.
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