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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Content page count:Thisisthetotalnumberofpagesinthecurrentdocumentthathavecon-
tents,suppliedbythePrintsection.ApagethathasaMasterPagebutnocontents,isnot
includedintheContentpagecount.
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Sheet number:Thecurrentsheetnumberinthedocument.Asheetisaphysicalpieceofpaper,
withtwosides(orpages).Thisisequivalenttohalfthepagenumber,forexampleifthereare10
pages,therewillbe5sheets.
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Sheet count:Thismarkerisreplacedbythetotalnumberofsheetsinthedocument,whetheror
nottheyhavecontents.
Note: Whenamarkerisinserted,aclassisaddedtotheelementinwhichthemarkerisinserted.
Donotdeletethatclass.Itenablesthesoftwaretoquicklyfindandreplacethemarkerwhengen-
eratingoutput.Therespectiveclassesare:pagenumber,pagecount,contentpagenumber,
contentpagecount,sheetnumber,andsheetcount.
Tip: Insteadofpagenumbers,youmightwanttodisplaythecurrentrecord indexand/orthe
totalnumberofrecordsintherecordset,inthedocument.ThereisaHow-tothatexplainshowto
dothat:Howtogettherecordindexandcount.
Creating a table of contents
Atableofcontentscanonlybecreatedinascript.
Ifyouarelookingtocreateashort,simpletableofcontentsinone section,youcouldaddaStandard
ScriptthatusesthepageRef()function.Foranexample,see"pageref()"onpage805.
Foramulti-page,cross-sectiontableofcontentsyoumustuseaPostPaginationScript;see"Creat-
ingaTableOfContents"onpage411.
Thebasicsofscript-writingintheDesignerareexplainedinthefollowingtopic:"Writingyourown
scripts"onpage368.
Configuring page numbers
BydefaultthepagenumbersareArabicnumerals(1,2,3,etc.)withoutleadingzerosnorprefix,and
pagenumberingstartswithpage1foreachsection.Butthiscanbechanged.Todothat:
1. OntheResourcespane,right-clickasectioninthePrintcontextandclickNumbering.
2. UncheckRestart Numberingifyouwantthepagenumberstogetconsecutivepagenumbers,
insteadofrestartingthepagenumberingwiththissection.
Note: Evenifasectionisdisabled,soitdoesn'tproduceanyoutput,thissettingisstill
takenintoaccountfortheothersections.ThismeansthatifRestartNumberingischecked
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