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
Print Wizard Preview showing some Landscape mode jobs in Portrait mode
PrintjobsfeaturinganassociatedConnect"OutputCreationPresets"onpage864whichhave"Impos-
itionoptions"onpage690settoLandscapewillnotPreviewinLandscape,butratherinPortraitmode.
Theprintoutisunaffected,however.
Issues associating PDFfiles with Connect
Undercertaincircumstances,ConnectSetupspriorto2019.2wouldfailwhenattemptingtoaddthe
"EnhancewithConnect"associationwithPDFfiles.Thiswouldthencausethesetuptoappeartofail.
WhilstthisissuehasbeenfixedintheConnect2019.2installer,ifauserhadpreviouslyexperienced
theissueandtemporarilyworkedaroundittocompletetheinstallation,thentheConnectinstallerwill
failonupgradeoruninstallation.
Togetaroundthis,amanualuninstallisrequired,oramodificationtoregistryentries.
The license update introduced in OLConnect 2019.1 does not cater for existing
AFPinput licenses
AFP InputisanaddonoptionforOLConnectlicenses.Unfortunately,theupdatetothe2019.1version
oftheOLConnectlicensedoesnotcaterforexistingAFPinputlicenses.
IfyouhaveanexistingAFPinputlicenseweaskthatyoucontactyourlocalCustomerCareteamafter
theinitiallicenseupdateiscompleteandhavethemaddtheAFPinputoptionbackintoyourlicense.
(See(https://www.objectiflune.com/WebActivationManager/CareInfo.aspx.)
The Update Client OLfor Connect 2019.1 does not cater for standalone Connect
Print Manager installations
TheConnectPrintManagerisastandaloneConnecttoolthatisusedinproductionsitestomanage
printjobs.ItcanbeinstalledandrunonstandalonemachineswithoutaConnectlicense.
TheUpdateClientforConnect2019.1looksforaConnectlicenseaspartoftheupdateprocess,butit
willnotfindoneonstandaloneConnectPrintManagerinstallations.AsaresulttheUpdateClientwill
notrecognizethatthereisaConnectupdateavailabletothePrintManagermachine.
InordertoupdateConnectPrintManagertoversion2019.1youwillneedtodownloadtheConnect
2019.1installeroutsideoftheUpdateClient.TheConnect2019.1installercanbedownloadedfromthe
WebActivationManagersite.Seehttps://www.objectiflune.com/webactivationmanager/.Oryoucould
askyourlocalAdministrationfortheinstaller,asitwouldlikelyalreadyhavebeendownloadedfor
installationbythedocumentdesigners.
Page break changes in 2019.1
ImprovedpagebreakinginConnect2019.1mightimpactuponsomeexistingtemplates.
Itisrecommendedthatyoucheckpagebreakinginexistingjobs,wherepagebreaksataspecific
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