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Scripting Preferences
The Scripting preferences define different options related to scripting within PrintShop Mail
Connect. See also: "Testing scripts" on page332.
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General:
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Script timeout at design time (sec): In Preview mode or when running the Script
Profiler (see the Profile Scripts dialog), a long running script is stopped after the
amount of time set here. The default is 2 seconds, the minimum is 1 second.
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Designer scripting profiling group:
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Number of iterations: Enter the number of times to run scripts when running the
Profile Scripts dialog. The default is 1000. Accepted values are 1 to 1000000000.
Yes, that's 1 billion - which would take a long time to run!
The Scripting Preferences also provides you with buttons to :
l Restore Defaults. This option restores the preferences to Defaults. This applies to the
current Preferences page only, but not other Preferences.
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Apply: This option Applies the settings made within the current Preferences page, but
does not close the Preferences dialog.
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Writing your own scripts
Personalization can be taken a lot further than just inserting names and addresses, and hiding
or showing text or images. Every bit of information in your communications can be made
entirely personal, using scripts.
A script is a small set of instructions to the program, written in JavaScript.
When Connect generates the actual output – letters or emails -, it opens a record set and
merges it with the template. It takes each record, one by one, and runs all scripts for it (in a
specific order, see "The script flow: when scripts run" on page359).
This topic explains how scripts work and how you can create and write a script.
Most scripts can be made using one of the Script Wizards. For a block of variable data, such as
an address, the Text Script Wizard is a perfect fit. Paragraphs can be made conditional with a
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