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
1. CreateajobcreationpresetthatindicatesthatMediahastobeprinted:selectFile > Presets
andsee"OutputCreationPresetsWizard"onpage626formoredetails.
2. SelectthatjobcreationpresetinthePrintWizard;see"GeneratingPrintoutput"onpage858.
Email
WiththeDesigneryoucancreateoneormoreEmailtemplatesandmergethetemplatewithadataset
togeneratepersonalizedemails.
TheEmailcontextisthefolderintheDesignerthatcancontainoneormoreEmailtemplates,also
calledEmailsections.TheHTMLgeneratedbythiscontextismeanttobecompatiblewithasmanycli-
entsandasmanydevicesaspossible.
Email template
ItisstronglyrecommendedtostartcreatinganEmailtemplatewithaWizard;see"CreatinganEmail
templatewithaWizard"onpage154.
Alsosee"DesigninganEmailtemplate"onthenextpageforguidelinesonthedesign.DesigningHTML
emailthatdisplaysproperlyonavarietyofdevicesandscreensizesischallenging.Buildinganemailis
notlikebuildingfortheweb.Whilewebbrowserscomplywithstandards(toasignificantextent),email
clientsdonot.DifferentemailclientsinterpretthesameHTMLandCSSstylesintotallydifferentways.
WhenanEmailtemplateiscreated,eitherwithaWizardorbyaddinganEmailcontexttoanexisting
template(see"Addingacontext"onpage110),theEmailcontextfolderiscreatedalongwithotherfiles
thatarespecifictoanEmailcontext;see"Emailcontext"onpage157.
OnlyoneEmailsectioniscreatedatthestart,butyoucanaddasmanyEmailsectionsasyouneed;
see"Emailtemplates"onpage158.However,whentheDesignermergesadatasettogenerateoutput
fromtheEmailcontext,itcanmergeonlyoneofthesectionswitheachrecord;see"GeneratingEmail
output"onpage876.
Emailtemplatesarepersonalizedjustlikeanyothertemplate;see"Personalizingcontent"on
page297.
Sending email
Whenthetemplateisready,youcanchangetheemailsettings(see"Emailheadersettings"on
page161)andsendtheemail.Totestatemplate,youcansendatestemailfirst.
Output,generatedfromanEmailtemplate,canhavethefollowingattachments:
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ThecontentsofthePrintcontext,intheformofasinglePDFattachment.(Compressionoptions
forPDFattachmentscanbespecifiedintheEmailcontext'sproperties;see"CompressingPDF
attachments"onpage158.)
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Otherfiles,animageoraPDFleafletforexample.
AttachingthePrintcontextisoneoftheoptionsinthe"Send(Test)Email"onpage486dialog.
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