Sample Projects

A Sample Project generates a small Connect solution that is ready to be tested and deployed. The solution contains a specific Workflow configuration, as well as the Connect templates, data mapping configurations, and any Job Presets and Output Presets that are used in that configuration.

This chapter describes the Sample Projects and the projects that they install. It will help you install, comprehend and customize the projects.

For generic information about Connect solutions and their components, see OL Connect projects.

Note: The projects require that the Connect Server and Connect Workflow be installed on the local machine.

These are the projects that can be installed with a wizard.

  • Print promotional jobs. This project generates a batch of basic personalized letters, in the format that was selected in the wizard: PDF, PCL or PostScript Level 3. (See: Sample Project: Print Promotional Jobs.)
    The Workflow configuration uses the All In One plugin (see Print processes with OL Connect tasks).

  • Print transactional jobs. This project creates print content items - invoices - and uses multiple Create Output tasks to generate various print output variants:

    • A single PDF for the entire job (in which the invoices are grouped per customer).

    • One PDF per customer.

    • One PDF per invoice.

    (See: Sample Project: Print Transactional Jobs.)

    The Workflow process implements the typical Print plugins (see Print processes with OL Connect tasks).

  • Basic web page. This project serves a simple web page, personalized via URL parameters. (See: Sample Project: Serving a Web Page.)

  • Submitting data with webforms. This project illustrates how to serve multiple web pages, one of them a web form, using a single Workflow process. It stores submitted data in the Data Repository. (See Sample Project: Submitting Data with Web Forms.)

  • Basic email setup. This project sends email messages with attachments. Pre-rendered PDFs are attached based on the provided sample data. (See Sample Project: Basic Email.)

  • Capture OnTheGo Timesheets. This project deploys and serves COTG Timesheet forms. Additional processes capture the submitted data and output them in JSON, XML and PDF. In order to create the PDF, the data are merged with a Connect template. (See: Sample Project: COTG Timesheets.)

Tip: All projects created with the Sample Projects wizard are local versioned projects. Any time you commit files in the project, a snapshot of the project is saved as a version. See Versioned projects for more information about this feature.