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
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ThePrintcontextiscreatedandonePrint sectionisaddedtoit.Youcanseethisonthe
Resourcespane:expandtheContextsfolder,andthenexpandthePrintfolder.
ThePrintcontextcancontainmultiplesections:acoveringletterandapolicy,forexample,orone
sectionthatismeanttobeattachedtoanemailasaPDFfileandanotheronethatisgoingtobe
printedoutonpaper.OnlyonePrintsectionisaddedtoitatthebeginning,butyoucanaddas
manyprintsectionsasyouneed;see"AddingaPrintsection"onpage127.
See"Printsections"onpage126tolearnhowtofillaPrintsection.
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OneMaster Pageisaddedtothetemplate,ascanbeseenontheResourcespane,inthe
Master Pagefolder.
InPrintsections,thereareoftenelementsthatneedtoberepeatedacrosspages,likeheaders,
footersandlogos.Inaddition,someelementsshouldappearoneachfirstpage,oronlyonpages
inbetweenthefirstandthelastpage,oronlyonthelastpage.Examplesareadifferentheader
onthefirstpage,andatear-offslipthatshouldshowuponthelastpage.
ThisiswhatMasterPagesareusedfor.MasterPagescanonlybeusedinthePrintcontext.
See"MasterPages"onpage141.
Initially,the(empty)masterpagethathasbeencreatedwiththePrintcontextwillbeappliedtoall
pagesinthePrintsection,butmoreMasterPagescanbeaddedandappliedtodifferentpages.
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OneMediaisaddedtothetemplate,asisvisibleontheResourcespane,intheMediafolder.
Thisfoldercanholdthecompany'sstationeryintheformofPDFfiles.Whenappliedtoapagein
aPrintsection,MediacanhelppreventthecontentsofaPrintsectionfromcollidingwiththecon-
tentsofthestationery.See"Media"onpage144tolearnhowtoaddMediaand,optionally,print
them.
Initially,the(empty)mediathathasbeencreatedwiththePrintcontext,isappliedtoallpagesin
thePrintsection.YoucanaddmoreMediaandapplythemeachtodifferentpages.
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OneStylesheet,namedcontext_print_styles.css,isaddedtothetemplate,asyoucanseeon
theResourcespane,intheStylesheetsfolder.Thisstylesheetismeanttobeusedforstylesthat
areonlyappliedtoelementsinthePrintcontext.Seealso"StylingtemplateswithCSSfiles"on
page261.
PrintsettingsinthePrintcontextandsections
ThefollowingsettingsinthePrintcontextandPrintsectionshaveanimpactonhowthePrintcontextis
printed.
Arranging and selecting sections
ThePrintcontextcancontainoneormorePrintsections.WhengeneratingoutputfromthePrintcon-
text,eachofthePrintsectionsisaddedtotheoutputdocument,oneaftertheotherinsequence,for
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