2021.2
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 2021.2
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Where to obtain the installers
- Installation prerequisites
- User accounts and security
- Installing PlanetPress Connect on Machines without Internet Access
- Installation Wizard
- Running Connect installer in Silent Mode
- Activating a License
- Migrating to a new workstation
- Information about PlanetPress Workflow
- Upgrading
- Server Configuration Settings
- Known Issues
- Uninstalling
- General information
- OL Connect projects
- The DataMapper
- DataMapper basics
- Data mapping configurations
- Creating a new data mapping configuration
- Opening a data mapping configuration
- Saving a data mapping configuration
- Down-saving a data mapping configuration
- Using the wizard for CSV and Excel files
- Using the wizard for databases
- Using the wizard for JSON files
- Using the wizard for PDF/VT or AFP files
- Using the wizard for XML files
- Advanced PCL to PDF options
- Data mapping workflow
- The Data Model
- DataMapper User Interface
- DataMapper Scripts API
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Web
- Capture OnTheGo
- COTG Forms
- Creating a COTG Form
- Filling a COTG template
- Sending the template to the Workflow tool
- Receiving and extracting data from a COTG Form
- Using COTG data in a template
- Designing a COTG Template
- Capture OnTheGo template wizards
- Using Foundation
- COTG Elements
- Using COTG Elements
- Testing a Capture OnTheGo Template
- Using the COTG plugin
- Dynamically adding COTG widgets
- Saving and restoring custom data and widgets
- Using submitted COTG data in a template
- Capture OnTheGo API
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing content
- Preferences
- General preferences
- Clean-up Service preferences
- DataMapper 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
- Project Wizards preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Servers preferences
- Web 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 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
- Functions and fields
- Example
- Functions and fields
- html()
- margins
- front, back
- Generating output
- Print output
- Email output
- Web output
- Generating Print output
- Generating Print output from the Designer
- Generating Print output from Workflow
- Print settings in a template
- Aborting content creation
- Print using standard print output settings
- Print Presets
- Print using Advanced Printer Wizard
- Adding print output Models to the Print Wizard
- Splitting printing into more than one file
- Print output variables
- Generating Fax output
- Generating Tags for Image output
- Generating Email output
- Generating Web output
- Optimizing a template
- Runtime parameters
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2021.2.1
- License Update Required for Upgrade to OL Connect 2021.x
- Backup before Upgrading
- Overview
- OL Connect 2021.2.1 Improvements
- OL Connect 2021.2 Designer Improvements
- OL Connect 2021.2 DataMapper Improvements
- OL Connect 2021.2 Output Improvements
- Workflow 2021.2 Improvements
- OL Connect 2021.2 Improvements
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2021.1
- OL PlanetPress ConnectRelease Notes 2020.2.1
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2020.1
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2019.2
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2019.1
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2018.2.1
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2018.1.6
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 1.8
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 1.7.1
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 1.6.1
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 1.5
- PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 1.4.2
- Connect 1.4.2 Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 New Features and Enhancements
- Connect 1.4.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 8.4.1 Workflow Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- OL PlanetPress Connect Release Notes 2021.2.1
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Tip
You can quickly change the position property of an element in a Print or Web section
by right-clicking it and selecting Convert to Absolute or Convert to Inline.
For an explanation of all values that the position property can possibly have, see
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp.
Where to use it
In Print sections, setting the position property to absolute can be very useful. It takes the
element out of the text flow, so that the element stays where it is on the page. On Master Pages
(which are only used in Print sections) elements are always positioned absolutely; if not, they
must be located inside an element that has an absolute position.
In Web sections, setting the position property to absolute may sometimes be useful for
elements inside a Div element, but in general, elements should not be positioned absolutely.
Designs for the Web should be flexible so that they display nicely on a variety of devices and
screen sizes.
In Email sections, do not use this property. Use Tables instead (see "Designing an Email
template" on page518 and "Table" on page735).
How to use it
In the Formatting dialog the position property can often be found on the first tab, under
Positioning. To open the Formatting dialog, right-click the element and click the respective
element on the shortcut menu. Alternatively, select the element (see "Selecting an element" on
page638) and on the Format menu click the respective element.
This property isn't present in one of the tab menus of the style rule editor, but you can add it and
specify a value after clicking the Advanced button in the style rule editor (see "Styling templates
with CSS files" on page747).
About the CSS display property
The display property is one of the most important CSS properties for controlling layout. Yet it is
unlikely that you will use it often to position elements in a template: in most cases, the initial
value of the display property for an element will be the right one.
It is more likely that you will use this property in style sheets and scripts to hide certain
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