2020.2
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 2020.2
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Preferences
- Clean-up Service 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
- Engines preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Known Issues
- Uninstalling
- General information
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing content
- Preferences
- Clean-up Service 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
- 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 Manager
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes
- OL PrintShop Mail ConnectRelease Notes 2020.2.1
- Previous Releases
- OL PrintShop Mail 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 Output Improvements
- Print Manager 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 Output updates
- Print Wizard and Preset Wizard Improvements
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 2018.2.1 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.2 Enhancements
- Connect 2018.2 Designer Updates
- Connect 2018.2 Output updates
- Print Wizard and Preset Wizard Improvements
- Connect 2018.2 Print Manager 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 Output Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1 Print Manager 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 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Print Manager 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 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
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
In a Print context, the Standard scripts in the Scripts pane run once for each section and then
for each Master Page (see "Master Pages" on page153). Next, each processed Master Page is
put behind every page to which it should be applied.
Scripts are NOT executed again for every page.
Finally, Post Pagination Scripts run, in the order in which they appear in the Scripts pane
(see "Post Pagination Scripts" on page433).
Post Pagination Scripts are run in a Print context after the content has been paginated.
Because they can search through the output of all Print sections, and modify Print sections (one
at a time), they may be used to create a Table Of Contents (TOC), as explained in the topic:
"Creating a Table Of Contents" on page435.
Note
Any JavaScript files included in a section run after the scripts in the Scripts pane.
Selectors in Connect
Selectors are patterns used to select one or more HTML elements. They were originally
developed to be able to define the layout of web pages without touching their content, through
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). In Connect, since each section in a Connect template is in fact
an HTML file (see "Editing HTML" on page191), the very same selectors can be used in style
sheets (see "Styling templates with CSS files" on page287) and template scripts (see
"Personalizing content" on page329 and "Writing your own scripts" on page381). Using
selectors for scripting can increase the speed with which a template and data are merged; see
"Use an ID or class as selector" on page397.
Standard CSS selectors
Selectors are made up of one or more of the following components:
l
An HTML element. Type the HTML tag without the angle brackets (e.g. p) to select all
elements of that type (pselects all paragraphs).
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A class. Type the class name, preceded by a dot, e.g.: .green, to select HTML elements
with that class.
l
An ID. Type the ID, preceded by #, e.g.: #intro, to select an HTML element with that ID.
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