2022.2
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 2022.2
- 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
- Sample Projects preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Versioning preferences
- Engines preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Known Issues
- Uninstalling
- General information
- Versioned projects
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing content
- Variable data in the text
- Conditional content
- Dynamic images and Print section backgrounds
- Snippets
- Scripts
- Loading data
- Variable data in text: expressions
- Variable data in text: scripts and placeholders
- Formatting variable data
- Showing content conditionally
- Conditional Print sections
- Dynamic images
- Dynamic Print section backgrounds
- Handlebars in OL Connect
- 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
- Sample Projects preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Versioning 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 OL 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 Connect Release Notes 2022.2.3
- Previous Releases
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2022.1.5
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2021.2.1
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2021.1
- OL PrintShop Mail ConnectRelease Notes 2020.2.1
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2020.1
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2019.2
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2019.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2018.2.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2018.1.6
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.8
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.7.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.6.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.5
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.4.2
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Whenreferingtothem,normallyyouwouldsimplyusethepathdirectlywiththefilename.Thestruc-
turewithinthosefoldersismaintained,soifyoucreatea"signatures"folderwithinthe"Images"folder,
youneedtousethatstructure,forexampleinHTML:<imgsrc="images/signatures/johnsmith.gif">.In
scripts,youcanrefertotheminthesameway,forexample:
results.loadhtml("snippets/en/navbar.html");
Seealso:"Loadingasnippetviaascript"onpage391and"Writingyourownscripts"onpage368.
Note: WhenreferringtoimagesorfontsfromaCSSfile,youneedtorememberthatthecurrent
pathiscss/,meaningyoucan'tjustcallimages/image.jpg.Usearelativepath,forexample:
#header{background-image:url('../images/image.jpg');}
External resources
Externalresourcesarenotstoredinthetemplate,butonthelocalharddriveoronanetworkdrive.
Theyareaccessedusingapath.Thepathmusthaveforwardslashes,forexample
<img src="file:///c:/resources/images/signatures/johnsmith.gif">
or
var json_variables = loadjson("file:///d:/jsondata/variables.json");.
Thecompletesyntaxis:file://<host>/<path>.Ifthehostis"localhost",itcanbeomitted,asitisinthe
example,resultinginfile:///<path>.Theemptystringisinterpretedas`themachinefromwhichthe
URLisbeinginterpreted'.
Networkpathsaresimilar:results.loadhtml("file://servername/sharename/folder/snippet.html");(note
thatinthiscasefileisfollowedby2slashesonly).
Some limitations
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Stylesheetscannotrefertoexternalresources.
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TheConnectServeruserneedsaccesstowhichevernetworkpathisused.Ifthenetworkpathis
onadomain,theConnectServermustbeidentifiedwithdomaincredentialsthathaveaccessto
thedomainresources.
Formoreinformationonnetworkpaths,pleaseseethisWikipediaentry:fileURIscheme.
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