1.7

General DataMapper Enhancements and Fixes
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XML Wizard: option added to extract Attributes and to set boundaries on Attribute
changes. (SHARED-42251)
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Improved support for UNC paths to image files. (SHARED-44316)
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The Extradata fields are now available in the DataMapper to more easily allow setting of
field default values. The display of the Extradata fields can be toggled on or off directly
from the Data Model panel. (SHARED-51426)
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New data.findRegExp() function added. This function is similar to the existing data.find()
function, but with Regular Expression support added. (SHARED-51694)
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Repeat Step conditions can now be set to evaluate operands as integers or as strings
to make it easier to compare numeric values without having to cast them first. (SHARED-
49786)
Connect 1.7.1 Output Enhancements and
Fixes
Grouping With and Without Sorting
Sometimes the data used for generating documents is already pre-sorted, but you may still
need to group documents into sets or segments. In those cases, the grouping process should
not reorder the documents. This has now been implemented in PlanetPress Connect 1.7.1.
Consider the following example: data has been pre-sorted for postal sorting, which means that
documents for the same customer will also be in consecutive order in the job (assuming a
customer has a single postal address). If we want documents for the same customer to go into
the same job, we can use grouping to create document sets and we might use the customer
number for this grouping. When the customer number changes, we want a new document set to
begin. If grouping by customer number also sorts by customer number, our pre-sorted order will
get messed up.
The Job Creation settings have been improved to allow this kind of grouping. Sorting
ascending, descending or not sorting at all can be set per field used for grouping. (SHARED-
45125)
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