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
Note: Regardingstyling,whenasnippetisaddedtodifferentsectionsorcontexts,itisdisplayed
accordingtothesection'sorcontext'sstylesheet.Thismeansthatthesamecontentcanlookdif-
ferentdependingonthestylesappliedtothesectionorcontext,withoutchangingthecontent.
Tip: ItispossibletoopenandeditanyexternalHTMLorJSONfileintheDesigner:selectFile >
Open,selectAll files (*.*)asthefiletypeandthenselectanHTMLorJSONfile.
Adding a snippet to the Resources
Here'showtoaddasnippettotheResourcesofatemplate.
1. Beforeaddingasnippet,importanyresourcefilesthatarerelatedtothesnippet,suchasimage
filesandCSSfiles,intothetemplatefile.Draganddropthefilestothecorrespondingfolders
(ImagesandStylesheets,respectively)ontheResourcespane.Ifyouwanttouseexternal
images,see"Images"onpage239.
2. DragthefilethatcontainsthesnippetintotheSnippetsfolderontheResourcespane.
IftheaddedsnippetisnotUTF-8encodedyouwillbeaskedtoselectitsencoding.Thesnippet
willthenbeconvertedandsavedinthetemplateasUTF-8encodedfile.
Tip: Toexportasnippetfromyourtemplate,dragorcopy/pasteitoutoftheSnippetsfoldertoa
folderonthelocalharddrive.
Remotesnippets
AremotesnippetiseitheranHTMLorJSONfilethatisnotlocatedwithinyourtemplatefilebutishos-
tedonaContentManagementSystemorotherexternallocation.
Toaddaremotesnippet:
1. Right-clicktheSnippetsfolderontheResourcespane,andclickNew Snippet>Remote
HTML fileorRemote JSON file.
2. EnteranameforthefileasitappearsintheSnippetsfolder.ThisnameisshownintheSnippets
folderwiththe.rhtmlfileextensionforHTML,or.rjsonforaJSONfile.
3. EntertheURLfortheremoteresource.ThismustbeafullURL,includingthehttp://orhttps://pre-
fix,domainname,pathandfilename.
Note: Remotesnippetsmaycontainotherresources,suchasimages.Thereisonelimitation
though:onlyabsolutepathsaresupportedinsideremotesnippets.Imagesandotherresources
referredtowitharelativepath(forexample:images/img.gif)orroot-relativepath(anypathstart-
ingwithaslash,forexample:/base/images/img.gif)won'tbeavailableinthetemplate.
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