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OL Connect 2022.2 Sneak peek: versioning and collaborative work

Get a glimpse at how version 2022.2 extends OL Connect’s versioning feature and allows you to collaborate with colleagues on common projects through online…

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Data Design Security

OL Connect 2022.2 Sneak peek: simplify templates with {{expressions}}

When your OL Connect template requires many user scripts, it can quickly become hard to maintain. These scripts quite often perform basic find/replace tasks…

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Design

OL Connect 2022.2 New Features Summary

The second release of OL Connect is expected to be available before the end of November 2022. The new version introduces an Upland re-branding…

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Automation Data Design Installer & Configuration News Performance

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Creating sample data

This article explains how to create dummy data using Mockaroo.com, a free online data generator. The resulting data can be processed via the OL…

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Data Design

OL Learn Blog Performance
Create an OL Connect template from a Word document

In many projects the design and content of an OL Connect template starts in a third-party application. A typical starting point is Microsoft Word.…

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Design

OL Learn Blog Data
Versioning resources

At long last, OL Connect allows you to keep track of all the changes you make to your templates and data mapping configurations. You…

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Data Design Security

What’s new in OL Connect 2022.1

After a bit of a false start last week, the first release of OL Connect for 2022 is now officially available! It comes packed…

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Automation Data Design Installer & Configuration News Performance

OL Learn Data
JSON Field Type

Wouldn’t you just love to use the contents of a data field as if it were an object, with its own properties and arrays,…

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Data Design

OL Learn Design
Get a grip on snippets with Handlebars

If you’ve created OL Connect Designer templates for long documents like contracts and insurance policies before you’re undoubtedly familiar with snippets. A snippet is…

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Design

JavaScript
Jazzing up your JS skills – 2

In my previous article about JavaScript, I emphasized how you should always start any JS project by using stuff you’re already familiar with. But…

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Automation Data Design Performance

Creating multilingual OL Connect templates
Creating multilingual OL Connect templates

Preparing your documents for translation into multiple languages is made easy through the use of state of the art technology.

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Design

How to - Pass variables to a template
How to – Pass variables to a template

In this post we’ll show you how to use runtime parameters to effortlessly pass variables to a template. Runtime parameters provide an elegant way…

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Automation Design

The debugging user scripts
Troubleshoot your User Scripts with the Script Debugger

When developing complex OL Connect templates, User Scripts typically grow in number and complexity. You may encounter situations where they not always do what…

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Design

Conditional design elements
Conditional design elements

When creating personalized documents one often needs to make decisions based on data. A common example is showing/hiding one or more paragraphs depending on…

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Design

Dynamic section backgrounds
Dynamic section backgrounds

Creating document variants based on data and a collection of pre-produced designs is a typical variable data printing scenario. These could be brochures with…

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Design

Conditional print sections
Conditional print sections

A classic approach to dynamically switch messages is to enable or disable sections for printing. OL Connect’s Designer contains a basic condition wizard and…

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Design