2020.2
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 2020.2
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Where to obtain the installers
- Installation prerequisites
- User accounts and security
- 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
- Upgrading
- Server Configuration Settings
- Known Issues
- Uninstalling
- General information
- OL Connect projects
- The DataMapper
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Web
- Capture OnTheGo
- COTG Forms
- Creating a COTG Form
- Filling a COTG template
- Sending the template to the Workflow tool
- Using COTG data in a template
- Designing a COTG Template
- Capture OnTheGo template wizards
- Using Foundation
- COTG Elements
- Using COTG Elements
- Testing a Capture OnTheGo Template
- Using the COTG plugin: cotg-2.0.0.js
- Dynamically adding COTG widgets
- Saving and restoring custom data and widgets
- Using submitted COTG data in a template
- Capture OnTheGo API
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing content
- Preferences
- General preferences
- Clean-up Service preferences
- DataMapper preferences
- Database Connection preferences
- Editing preferences
- Email preferences
- Emmet preferences
- Engines preferences
- Hardware for Digital Signing preferences
- Language preferences
- Logging preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Print preferences
- Project Wizards preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Servers preferences
- Web preferences
- Writing your own scripts
- Script types
- Creating a new Standard Script
- Writing a script
- Setting the scope of a script
- Managing scripts
- Testing scripts
- Optimizing scripts
- The script flow: when scripts run
- Selectors in Connect
- Loading a snippet via a script
- Loading content using a server's API
- Using scripts in Dynamic Tables
- Control Scripts
- Post Pagination Scripts
- Translating templates
- Designer User Interface
- Designer Script API
- Generating output
- Print output
- Email output
- Web output
- Generating Print output
- Generating Print output from the Designer
- Generating Print output from Workflow
- Print settings in a template
- Aborting content creation
- Print using standard print output settings
- Print Presets
- Print using Advanced Printer Wizard
- Adding print output Models to the Print Wizard
- Splitting printing into more than one file
- Print output variables
- Generating Fax output
- Generating Tags for Image output
- Generating Email output
- Generating Web output
- Optimizing a template
- Runtime parameters
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes
- OL PlanetPress ConnectRelease Notes 2020.2.1
- License Update Required for Upgrade to Connect 2020.x
- Backup before Upgrading
- Overview
- OL Connect 2020.2.1 Enhancements
- OL Connect 2020.2 Enhancements
- Connect 2020.2 Designer Improvements
- Connect 2020.2 DataMapper Improvements
- Connect 2020.2 Output Improvements
- Workflow 2020.2 Improvements
- OL Connect Send Improvements
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2020.1
- License Update Required for Upgrade to Connect 2019.x
- Backup before Upgrading
- Overview
- OL Connect 2019.2 Enhancements
- Connect 2019.2 Designer Improvements
- Connect 2019.2 DataMapping Improvements
- Connect 2019.2 Output Improvements
- Workflow 2019.2 Improvements
- Known Issues
- License Update Required for Upgrade to Connect 2019.1
- Overview
- OL Connect 2019.1 Enhancements
- Connect 2019.1 Designer Updates
- Connect 2019.1 DataMapping Updates
- Connect 2019.1 Output updates
- Print Wizard and Preset Wizard Improvements
- Workflow 2019.1 Updates
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 2018.2.1 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.2 Enhancements
- Connect 2018.2 Designer Updates
- Connect 2018.2 DataMapping Updates
- Connect 2018.2 Server Enhancements
- Connect 2018.2 Output updates
- Print Wizard and Preset Wizard Improvements
- Workflow 2018.2 Updates
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 2018.1.6 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.5 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.4 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.3 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.2 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.1 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1 General Enhancements
- Connect 2018.1 Designer Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1 DataMapping Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1 Output Enhancements/Fixes
- Workflow 2018.1 Enhancements/Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.8 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Performance Related Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Capture OnTheGo (COTG) Enhancements and Fixes
- Workflow 8.8 Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- 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
- 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 1.5 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 8.5 Workflow 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
- OL PlanetPress ConnectRelease Notes 2020.2.1
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
When refering to them, normally you would simply use the path directly with the file name. The
structure within those folders is maintained, so if you create a "signatures" folder within the
"Images" folder, you need to use that structure, for example in HTML: <img
src="images/signatures/johnsmith.gif">. In scripts, you can refer to them in the same way, for
example:
results.loadhtml("snippets/en/navbar.html");
See also: "Loading a snippet via a script" on page881 and "Writing your own scripts" on
page853.
Note
When referring to images or fonts from a CSS file, you need to remember that the current
path is css/, meaning you can't just call images/image.jpg. Use a relative path, for
example: #header {background-image: url('../images/image.jpg'); }
External resources
External resources are not stored in the template, but on the local hard drive or on a network
drive. They are accessed using a path. The path must have forward slashes, for example <img
src="file:///c:/resources/images/signatures/johnsmith.gif"> or var json_variables = loadjson
("file:///d:/jsondata/variables.json");. The complete syntax is:file://<host>/<path>. If the host
is"localhost", it can be omitted, as it is in the example, resulting infile:///<path>. The empty
string is interpreted as `the machine from which the URL is being interpreted'.
Network paths are similar: results.loadhtml("file://servername/sharename/folder/snippet.html");
(note that in this case file is followed by 2 slashes only).
Some limitations
l Style sheets cannot refer to external resources.
l The Connect Server user needs access to whichever network path is used. If the network
path is on a domain, the Connect Server must be identified with domain credentials that
have access to the domain resources.
For more information on network paths, please see this Wikipedia entry: file URI scheme.
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