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General information
Connectconsistsofvisibleandinvisibleparts.TheinvisiblepartsprocesstheConnectjobtoprovide
theactualoutput.Theyareintroducedtoyouinthetopic:"Connect:apeekunderthehood"below.
ForinformationaboutConnectlogging,see"Logfiles"onthenextpage.
ForalistofallfiletypesusedinConnect,see:"Connectfiletypes"onpage92.
Youcanfindadditionalinformationthatcomplementstheusermanuals,suchaserrorcodesandfre-
quentlyaskedquestionsaboutPrintShopMailConnect,intheKnowledgebase.
Connect: a peek under the hood
Connectconsistsofvisibleandinvisibleparts.
ThevisiblepartisofcoursetheDesigner,thatyouusetocreatetemplatesandPrintPresets.
TheinvisiblepartsprocesstheConnectjobtoprovidetheactualoutput.Thistopicintroducesyouto
thoseparts.
Here'sasimplified,graphicalrepresentationofthearchitectureofPrintShopMailConnect.
The Connect database
TheConnectdatabaseisthedatabaseback-endusedbyConnectitselfwhenprocessingjobs.Itcan
beeithertheMariaDBinstanceprovidedbytheConnectinstaller,orapre-existing(external)instance
(see"DatabaseConsiderations"onpage13).
Allgenerateditems(records,contentitemsetc.)arestoredinthisdatabase..
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