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
Notethattheinfo()functioncanalsobeusedtogetanelement'ssheetnumber,thesectionitislocated
in,andthetotalpagecountandsheetcountofthatsection(see"PaginationInfo"onpage843and"info
()"onpage847).Inthiscaseonlythepagenumberisused.
Thenthecallbackfunctionaddsanentrytothevariablethatholdsthetableofcontents,usingthe
retrievedinfo.
toc += '<p class="toc-entry ' + level + '">';
toc += '<span class="text">' + text + '</span>';
toc += '<span class="dots"></span>';
toc += '<span class="number">' + pageNo + '</span></p>';
TheHTMLtagnameisaddedasaclass.ThiscanbeusedinaCSSfiletostyletheentriesinthetable
ofcontentsaccordingtotheirlevel.(See"Step4:Stylingthetableofcontents"onpage415.)
Theemptyspanbetweentheheading'stextandpagenumberhastheclassdots.Thisisusedtoput
dotsbetweenheadingandpagenumber.
Thenumberclass(forthepagenumber)isnotonlyusedinCSS,butalsolateroninthescript.
Thetableofcontentsisinsertedinthesectionwith:results.html(toc);(see"html()"onpage801).
Thetableofcontentsmaygettoolongforasinglepageandaffectthepagenumbersinothersections.
Inthatcaseitisnecessarytore-paginatethecontent;merge.section.paginate();doesthetrick.
Note: Whetherpagenumberingrestartsineachsection,dependsonthesettingsforpagenum-
bering;see"Configuringpagenumbers"onpage137.Bydefault,pagenumberingstartswith
page1foreachsection.
Ifthepaginationprocesshaschangedthepagenumbers,theTOCneedstobeupdatedaswell.
Todothat,thescriptfirsthastocollectthepagenumbersfromthetableofcontents.Thisiswherethe
numberclasscomesinhandy:var$numbers=query('.number');.
Notethatthisquery()function,asopposedtomerge.context.query(),onlysearchesthecurrentsection
(see"query()"onpage742).
Then,thelevel1and2headingsarecollectedfromallPrintsectionsagainusingmerge.context.query
("h1,h2").
Thecallbackfunctionineach()retrievestheheading'snewpagenumber.Itthenusestheindexnum-
beroftheheadingintheresultsettogetthecorrespondingentryintheTOC:varentry=$numbers.get(
index);(see"get(index)"onpage766),andreplacesitwiththenewpagenumber.
Excluding headings
Oftentherearecertainheadingsthatyoudon'twanttoappearinthetableofcontents.Thetitleofthe
tableofcontentsitself,forexample.
Toexcludetheseheadingsfromthetableofcontents,dothefollowing:
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