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Note: Content creation may be aborted by a script in a Connect template that raises a fatal error.
This triggers the On Error tab of the Content Creation task. See Designer Script API.
Tip: Drag-and-drop a template from the Connect resources in the Configuration Components
pane on a process to add this task or one of the other OL Connect tasks that create content from
a template: a "Create Email Content" on page502 task, a "Create Print Content" on page515
task, or a "Create Web Content" on page518 task.
Properties
Datamapper tab
The Create Preview PDF plugin gets one record from the source selected on the Datamapper tab. This
record is then merged with the template (selected on the Content Creation tab) to create a preview
PDF.
The Datamapper tab can have one of the following source options:
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Data mapping configuration sets the data source to a data mapping configuration.
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%o: Select this to use a dynamic data mapping configuration name. Click on %o to change
the expression that determines the name of the data mapping configuration to use.
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Alternatively, select a configuration name. Adding configurations to this list is done
through the Send to Workflow option in the Designer module.
Click the Open data model of selected configuration button to view the data model
attached to the chosen configuration in the DataMapper module, to verify that the right one
is used.
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No storing or post-processing of the data records (faster): This option prevents data
from being written to the database. Instead, records are streamed directly into the Content
Creation process for immediate merging. Turning this feature on can improve data map-
ping performance significantly, as well as the time required for the cleanup process.
However, since the data is not written to the database, there is no way to do post-pro-
cessing on the extracted data. Any post-processors defined in the data mapping con-
figuration will be disabled.
This option is unchecked by default.
Note: When the data mapping configuration provides multiple records, the preview
is created based on the first record.
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