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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Media Size:Usethedrop-downtoselectthemediasizeoftheslipsheet.
IfacustomMediaSizewaschosen:
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Width:enterslipsheetpagewidth.
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Height:enterslipsheetpageheight.
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Joggroup:
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Jog after every:Usethedrop-downtoselectwhentojogtheprinter,whichiseitherNone
(noforcedjogging)orattheJob,Job Segment,DocumentorDocument Setlevel.
Advanced PrintWizard and Output Creation Preset Wizard navigation options
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Previewbutton(activeinAdvanced PrintWizardonly):ClicktolaunchaProofPreviewwindow,
whichdisplayshowtheprintedoutputwouldlookbaseduponthecurrentlychosenselections.
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BackandNextbuttons:Usedtonavigatebackandforththroughalltheselectedoptionswithin
theWizard.UpuntilthePrintbuttonispressed,onecanreverseallthewaythroughthewizardto
returntothemainselectionpage(the"Printoptions"onpage630page)andaddorremoveprint-
ingoptionsfromtheprintrun.
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Printbutton(Advanced PrintWizardonly)orFinishbutton(Output Creation PresetWizard
only):
Clicktoproduceprintoutput/finalizethePresetaccordingtothecurrentsettings.
ThiscanbedoneatanypointwithintheWizard,whetherornotalltheoptionsselectedinthe
"Printoptions"onpage630pagehavebeencompletedornot.
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Cancelbutton:CancelsthePrintWizard,withoutcreatinganyprintout.
Designer Script API
InDesignertemplates,everybitofinformationcanbetailor-made,usingscripts.WhenConnectgen-
eratesactualoutput–letters,webpagesoremails-,itopensarecordsetandmergesitwiththetem-
plate.Ittakeseachrecord,onebyone,andrunsallscriptsforit(inaspecificorder,see"Thescript
flow:whenscriptsrun"onpage384).
MostscriptscanbemadeusingoneoftheScriptWizards(see"Personalizingcontent"onpage297).
However,whenyouwanttodomorethanwhatyoucandowithaWizard,youmaywriteascriptyour-
self.Ifyouarenotfamiliarwithwritingscripts,pleaseread"Writingyourownscripts"onpage368first.
AllscriptsintheDesignerhavetobewritteninJavaScript.
Ifyoudon'tknowJavaScript,themanyexamplesgiveninthisAPIwillhelpyougetstarted.
Itisworththeeffort,however,tofamiliarizeyourselfwiththeJavaScriptsyntax.Forasimplescriptall
youneedtoknowcanbefoundonthefollowingwebpages:https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_syn-
tax.aspandhttps://www.w3schools.com/js/js_if_else.asp.
Intheeditorwindow,pressCtrl+Spacetoseetheavailablefeaturesandtheirdescriptions.
UsethearrowkeystoselectafunctionorobjectandpressEntertoinsertitinthescript.
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