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Todynamicallyselectasectionforoutput,useaControlScript;see"ControlScripts"on

page838.

WhenprintingfromtheDesigner,thecurrentlyopenEmailsectionwillbeoutputted.

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Aplain-textversionoftheHTMLisaddedtoeachemailifthisoptionischeckedintheEmailsec-

tion'sproperties(see"Emailsectionproperties"onpage931).Withnewtemplatesthisisalways

thecase.

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Ifstylesheetsareusedtostyletheemail,thestylescanbeaddedeithertotheheaderofthe

emailortoinlinestylepropertiesasiflocalformattingwasapplied(thisisalsocalled"embedded

CSS").See"Emailsectionproperties"onpage931.

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PDFattachmentscanbecompressedtomakethefilessmaller;see"CompressingPDFattach-

ments"onpage479.

Generating Email output from Connect Designer

TogenerateEmailoutputfromtheDesigner:

1. OpenatemplatewithanEmailcontext.

2. Loadadatafileordatabasecompatiblewiththistemplate,oropenadatamappingconfiguration.

See"Loadingdata"onpage710.

Ifyouhaveanopendatamappingconfigurationandopenanotherdatafile,thecurrentdatamap-

pingconfigurationwilltrytoretrievedatafromthefileordatabaseusingitsownDataModeland

extractionlogic.

Note: Whengeneratingoutputwithjustanopendatamappingconfiguration,thetemplate

ismergedwiththecompletesampledatafilethatispartofthedatamappingconfiguration.

TheoutputisnotlimitedtothenumberofrecordsshownintheDataModelpane(whichis

oneofthesettingsintheDataMapper).

3. OntheFilemenu,clickSend EmailorSend Test Email.Inthedialogthatappearsyoucan,

amongotherthings,attachthePrintcontextortheWebcontexttotheemail.See"Send(Test)

Email"onpage935foradescriptionofalltheoptions.Finally,clickOK.

Note: Whenyousendatestemail,theEmailToScriptwillnotbeused;instead,theemail

willbesenttotheaddressthatyouspecifyintheSendTestEmaildialog.IfyouhaveaLit-

musaccount,youcanenteryourLitmustestaddress.Tomakethetestaddressappearby

default,youcansetthedefaulttestaddressintheEmailPreferences:selectWindow >

Preferences,clickthearrownexttoEmail,clickGeneralandtypethetestaddressnextto

Email Test address.

Seealso:"TestingEmailoutputfordifferentemailclients"onthenextpage.

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