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
pageinthePrintsection.See"MasterPages"onpage141.
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Scriptsandselectorsforvariabledata.TheScriptspaneshows,forexample,ascriptcalled
"first_name".Thisscriptreplacesthetext"@first_name@"onthefrontofthepostcardbythe
valueofafieldcalled"first_name"whenyouopenadatasetthathasafieldwiththatname.See
"Variabledatainthetext"onpage297.
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AscriptcalledDynamicFrontImageSample.Thisscriptshowshowtotoggletheimageonthe
frontpagedynamically.Seealso"Writingyourownscripts"onpage368.
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OneemptyMedia.Media,alsocalledVirtualStationery,canbeappliedtoallpagesinthePrint
section.See"Media"onpage144.
TheWizardopensthePrintsection,sothatyoucanfillitwithtextandotherelements;see"Contentele-
ments"onpage170.ItalreadyhastwoPositonedBoxesonit:oneonthefront,fortext,andoneonthe
back,fortheaddress.
See"Printcontext"onpage122and"Printsections"onpage126formoreinformationaboutPrinttem-
plates.
Formal letter
TheFormalLetterWizardfirstletsyouselectthepagesettings,see"Pagesettings:size,marginsand
bleed"onpage135.
Thesesettingsarefairlyself-explanatory,exceptperhapsthese:
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Duplexmeansdouble-sidedprinting.
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Themarginsdefinewhereyourtextflowwillgo.Theactualprintablespaceonapagedepends
onyourprinter.
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Thebleedistheprintablespacearoundapage.Itcanbeusedonsomeprinterstoensurethat
nounprintededgesoccurinthefinaltrimmeddocument.Printersthatcan’tprintableed,willmis-
interpretthissetting.Setthebleedtozerotoavoidthis.
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ThenumberofsectionsisthenumberofpartsinthePrintcontext.AlthoughthisTemplatewizard
canaddmultiplePrintsectionstothePrintcontext,itwillonlyaddcontenttothefirstsection.
Onthenextsettingspage(clickNexttogothere),youcantypeasubject,thesender'snameandthe
sender'stitle.Thesewillappearintheletter.Youcanalso:
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ClicktheBrowsebuttontoselectasignatureimage.Thisimagewillappearabovethesender's
nameandtitle.
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SelectVirtualStationery:aPDFfilewiththeletterheadstationery.AlsoseeMedia.
WhenyouclickFinish,theWizardcreates:
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