1.7
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 1.7.1
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Where to Obtain the Installers
- Installation - important information
- Installation - How to guides
- Activation
- Installation Prerequisites
- 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 workstation
- Information about PlanetPress Workflow 8
- Upgrading from PlanetPress Suite 7.6
- What do I gain by upgrading to PlanetPress Connect?
- Server Configuration Settings
- Uninstalling
- The DataMapper Module
- The Designer
- Basic Steps
- Web
- Capture OnTheGo
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing Content
- Writing your own scripts
- Designer User Interface
- Script API
- Designer Scripts API
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Examples
- Creating a table of contents
- Example
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Replace elements with a snippet
- Replace elements with a set of snippets
- Example
- Example
- Control Script API
- 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
- General Information
- Release Notes
- Overview
- Connect 1.7.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Workflow 8.7 Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- Overview
- OL Connect Send
- Connect 1.6.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect Workflow 8.6 Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.4.2 Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 New Features and Enhancements
- Connect 1.4.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 8.4.1 Workflow Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
Workflow 8.7 Enhancements and Fixes
Custom Task descriptions
The Comments section of each Workflow Task can now be used as the task's description in the
Workflow Configuration tool, allowing users to better document the process without having to
resort to numerous Comment Tasks. (SHARED-39120)
Workflow processes can sometimes become rather complex and thus they require some
documentation in order to allow subsequent users to know why they were implemented in one
fashion or another. Comment tasks are already available but they use up some valuable real
estate in Workflow processes, which sometimes adds to the clutter, rather than making things
clearer.
Each task in a process also has a Comments section that allows you to properly document
what you want, but requires you to click each task in order to view the comments associated
with each (and you have to remember to display the Task Comments panel, which also robs
you of valuable on-screen real estate).
To cure these issues in Workflow 8.7 we introduced a new checkbox located below the
Comments field: Use as step description. Ticking this box instructs the Configuration tool to use
the task’s Comments as the description for the task in the Process panel, which allows you to
put in more descriptive text than the default value without having to click on each Task to
visualize it:
Option to bypass Record Persistence added to plugins
A new checkbox option has been added to both the Create PDFPreview task and the
DataMapper tab of the All-In-One task, allowing you to specify that the data should not be
stored in the database. This feature is specifically tailored for one-off jobs, to prevent data from
being written needlessly to the database. Instead, records are streamed directly into the
Content Creation process for immediate merging. Turning the feature on in the All-In-Task can
improve data mapping performance significantly, as well as the time required for the clean-up
process.
Note that checking this option in the All-In-Task means that if you ever need the data for any
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