1.8
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 1.8
- 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 PrintShop Mail C...
- Installing PrintShop Mail Connect on Machines without Internet Access
- Installation Wizard
- Running connect installer in Silent Mode
- Activating a License
- Migrating to a new workstation
- Known Issues
- Uninstalling
- Connect: a peek under the hood
- Connect File Types
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing Content
- Writing your own scripts
- Designer User Interface
- Designer Script API
- Designer Script 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
- Creating a Date object from a string
- Control Script API
- Examples
- Generating output
- Print output
- Email output
- Optimizing a template
- Generating Print output
- Saving Printing options in Print 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
- Print output variables
- Generating Email output
- Print Manager
- Print Manager Introduction Video
- Print Manager usage
- Print Manager Interface
- 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 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Print Manager Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- Overview
- Connect 1.7.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.6.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.5 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 General 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 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
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When checked, the option Convert fields to JSON string writes the results from
the script into an attribute or text as a JSON string. This is useful for Web contexts
where a front-end script can read this value easily.
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OK: Click to save any changes made to the script, apply the changes in the template, and
close the dialog.
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Cancel: Click to close the dialog without saving changes.
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Expand: Click to convert the script generator to a regular script. Note that this action is not
reversible once the regular script has been saved.
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Apply: Saves changes made to the script and applies the changes in the template
without closing the dialog.
Epanded Script window
When expanded, the Script window replaces all parts of the wizard below the Selector by a box
in which the script can be typed. See "Writing your own scripts" on page260.
For an overview of keyboard shurtcuts that can be used in this script editor, see "Keyboard
shortcuts" on page372.
Chart Script dialog
These are the options in the Chart Script dialog:
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Name: The name of the script, making it easier to identify it.
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Find: The Selector or Text to apply the result of the script to.
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Selector: Uses CSS selectors to find the element to which the script applies.
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Text: Uses text as a trigger for the script. The script applies to all instances of the
text found in the template.
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Selector and Text: Uses text as a trigger for the script but only applies to text within
the specified Selector.
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Input Type: Use the drop-down to select the source of the data to add to the Chart. The
selection changes the options below:
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Static Labels: Select to use a static number of data lines below. The chart will
always have the same number of items.
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Data List: Lists the data lines that are part of the Chart. Each line represents a
segment of the pie as well as a label if they are shown.
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