Designer basics
With the Designer you can create templates for personalized letters, emails and web pages, and generate output from them.
These are the basic steps for creating and developing a template:
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Create a template
Create a template, using one of the Template Wizards. See Creating a template. -
Fill the template
Add text, images and other elements to the template and style them. See Content elements and Styling and formatting. -
Personalize the content
Create data mapping configurations to extract data from a variety of data sources. See DataMapper basics.
Personalize the content of a template using variable data. See Personalizing content.
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Generate output
Adjust the settings, test the template and generate output. See Generating output.
Note that steps 2 and 3 are not necessarily to be followed in this order. For example, as you add elements to a template, you may start personalizing them right away, before adding other elements to the template.
Tip: Alternatively you could start with a Sample Project which creates an entire Connect solution: a Workflow configuration, as well as any Connect templates, data mapping configurations, Job Presets and Output Presets that are used in that configuration. See: Sample Projects.
What's next?
Automate your customer communications using Workflow and/or Node-RED (see OL Connect Automate).