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
Examples
Thefollowingscriptloadspartofasnippetbasedonthevalueofafield,andtheninsertsthecontent
intothedocumentusinghtml().
var promoTxt = loadhtml('snippets/promo-en.html', '#' + record.fields['YOGA']);
results.html(promoTxt);
Thefollowingscriptloadsasnippet.Thenitlooksforaplaceholder(@var2@)inthetextofthatsnippet
andreplaceseveryfoundplaceholderbythetext'<i>OLConnect1</i>'.Ituseshtml()sotheHTML
formatting(<i>and</i>)willindeedbeinterpretedasHTML.Finally,itplacesthesnippetinthetem-
plate.
var mysnippet = loadhtml('snippets/snippet.html');
mysnippet.find('@var1@').html('<i>OL Connect 1</i>');
results.replaceWith(mysnippet);
info()
ReturnspaginationinformationforoneHTMLelementorforthefirstelementinaresultset(see"res-
ults"onpage844)ofaqueryacrossallsectionsinaPrintcontext(see"query(selector)"onpage843).
ThereturnedinformationisofthetypePaginationInfo(see"PaginationInfo"onpage843).
ThisfunctioncanonlybeusedinaPostPaginationScript;see"PostPaginationScriptAPI"on
page840.
Foranexamplesee:"CreatingaTableOfContents"onpage411.
next()
next()returnsthenextsiblingofanHTMLelement,whichcanbe:
l
Theelementsthatmatchtheselectorofascript(see"results"onpage844).
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Oneelementthatmatchestheselectorofascriptthatrunsfor"Eachmatchedelement"(see
"this"onpage781and"Settingthescopeofascript"onpage373).
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Theelementsreturnedbyaqueryinthetemplate(see"query()"onpage742).
InHTML,siblingsareHTMLelementsthatsharethesameparent,i.e.HTMLelementsinthesamecon-
tainerelement.
Notethatasiblingcanbeadifferenttypeofelement.Forexample,ifaparagraph,animageandatable
followeachotherinthesameBox,theyaresiblings.
Tip: Togettheprevioussibling,useprevious()(see"prev()"onpage809).
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