7.1
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- How to
- Common Tasks
- Company Tasks
- Publication Type and Document Tasks
- Add publication types
- Modify the publication type properties
- Delete a publication type folder
- Adding documents to a publication type
- Delete documents from a publication type
- Edit document properties
- Manage production settings
- Output options
- Manage linked files
- Setting up web forms
- Define file upload settings
- Setting up pricing
- Image Collection Tasks
- Order Manager Tasks
- Ordering workflow
- Settings
- General Settings
- Pricing and Ordering
- Production
- Modules
- Enabling B2C (Business to Customer)
- Introduction to Regular Expressions
7.2 User Input Field Defaults
The User Input Field Defaults option is introduced to streamline the web form configuration during the
PrintShop Mail Publishing process. The designer of a PrintShop Mail document can use the Printshop Mail Web
interface to change the presentation and behavior of user input fields. The designer can set various aspects
like the input type (plain text, image upload, checkbox, etc.) and make a field required. Setting up these fields
can be a time consuming task, especially when publishing documents share common elements.
A good example is a business card, because business cards typically include fields for the first name, last
name, job title and e-mail address. The first and last name fields are typically required fields and you might
want to use a regular expression field to validate the entry for the e-mail address. Besides this you might
want to link these fields to the account information of the visitor.
In order to prevent the designer to configure these fields for each business card template the administrator
can create default settings for user input fields. These settings are applied to the user input fields when
publishing a PrintShop Mail document to PrintShop Mail Web. In this process the system tries to find a
mapping between the data field name in the template document and the user input field defaults item.
To invoke this process the designer needs to specifify the name of the "default item" in the Remarks property
in PrintShop Mail. The name of the "Default item" should be surrounded by square brackets.
If a match is found all web form parameters are retrieved from the default item and stored with the input
field.
7.2.1 Add a new User Input Field Default item
To add a new user input field default item:
1. Click Settings in the Menu bar.
2. Click User Input Field Defaults in the side menu. The User Input Field Defaults overview page is shown:
The User input field default overview
3. Click the Add button below the User Input Field Default overview to show the Item Properties page.
4. The Item Properties page contains the following sections:
▪ General: Enter a name for the user input field default item and it is possible to add an informative
text which appears below the data entry field.
▪ Web Form Parameters: The Web form parameters in this section are used to define the
appearance of the field. They depend on the selected field type. PrintShop Mail Web supports the
following field types:
▪ Plain text
▪ Pull-down
▪ Phone
▪ Image upload
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