Web Publish (Database)

20/3/04 

 

http://www.barefeetware.com/appleworks/web_publish_db/

Description

 

Web Publish publishes the active database as a series of static web pages. You can specify summary fields.

Enhancement Pack

 

This is one of the over 40 features bundled in the Enhancement Pack for AppleWorks.

Web Publish
Word Processing

 

Another feature publishes word processing documents as web pages.

     


Detail
Web Publish publishes the active database as a series of static web pages. You can specify summary fields.

Use
With your database open:
    1. Select the Database: Web Publish command from AppleWorks’ Scripts menu. It creates a new Web Form document, listing your fields.
    2. If you want to break up your database, with one page for all records which have the same value in a particular field, enable the “Page Break” checkbox for that field.
    3. For each field that you want in the web pages, select a number in its “Result Order” pop up menu. You may also want to alter its “Format”, such as right aligned or raw HTML.
    4. Run "Web Publish” again. When asked, choose a folder into which the web pages can be saved. You should save it into your Sites folder in Mac OS X, if you are running a web server on your own computer, or else save it somewhere them upload the folder to your web server.

Requirements
Operates on the front document, which must be a database document.

This script works with AppleWorks 6, not version 5 or earlier.

Only registered users are permitted to use the supplied files after 14 days.

Advanced
Upcoming similar software (available to registered users of the Enhancement Pack) will allow greater speed, web based entry into fields, shopping cart solutions, customization, web display of checkboxes, option button and other specialized fields. Tell us what you want.

Scripting
This script is read only, but the basis of how it creates the field list form is given in the Audit Fields script.

Sample
This is a typical web form template based on the fields in your database.




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