Document links

[Scoonge10]

Hello everyone,

I am designing a web site for the local district of a non-profit organization in which I belong.

I have no experience in this area but I have been able to make a fairly simple site using WE 7.

Searching the posts I didn’t find the answer to this question I have (at this point) so I will post it here and any assistance someone may give me is greatly appreciated.

My site contains 9 pages with multiple document links, all of which currently point to files on my hard drive.

How do I handle the document links when I publish the site? Do I need to create a "document" sub folder on the site and then manually change the HTML code after the site has been uploaded to refer to those new locations or is there a cleaner method you would recommend?

I'm using WE 7.0.0

Thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide.

Bob

[davidrosso]

...My site contains 9 pages with multiple document links, all of which currently point to files on my hard drive.

How do I handle the document links when I publish the site? Do I need to create a "document" sub folder on the site and then manually change the HTML code after the site has been uploaded to refer to those new locations or is there a cleaner method you would recommend?



Making a seperate "document" folder on your server is a great idea, one that I use myself. After making a the folder upload all the documents to that folder then in WE change your links to INTERNET WEB SITE links and put the exact url (address) of your documents there.

[Scoonge10]

Thank you, David, for your quick and helpful comment.

I will follow that idea and, hopefully, all will work well. If not, I'll be back. I'll probably be back with more questions as they come up anyway.... Bob

[Support_AK]

There is a way to do this all within webeasy as well.
First, open the File Inspector, if it is not already open. (Click on View >> Inspector)

In the file inspector you should see a dropdown menu on the top right. If you have never used it before, it may be a bit difficult to notice.

Click on the dropdown menu and select DOCUMENT.

Now in the File Inspector, under the properties tab, under the sub category WEBSITE BUILD, you should see an attribute titled MEDIA FOLDER.

Double click the VALUE to the right of the MEDIA folder and a box will prompt you for the folder name. You can name it whatever you like, such as documents.

Now when you create a link in webeasy, make sure you select FILE for the LINK TYPE and select the file you wish for it to link to.

When you export the files into html (the "build" process in webeasy), it will place all media files (not including images) in that folder.

There is a seperate option for an IMAGES folder in case you would like all your images in that folder.

The only negative side of this feature is that it will sort ALL your media files in that folder. For some users this may be perfectly fine, but if you are a more advanced user who is familiar with using FTP instead of the publisher assistant, you may want multiple sub-folders for different types of media and so forth.

[Scoonge10]

Thanks, Support. I appreciate your help on this and the top of page post. - Bob

[davidrosso]

...The only negative side of this feature is that it will sort ALL your media files in that folder. For some users this may be perfectly fine, but if you are a more advanced user who is familiar with using FTP instead of the publisher assistant, you may want multiple sub-folders for different types of media and so forth.

Good to know. But yeah, I'd rather sort myself :)

[KMN]

There is a way to do this all within webeasy as well.
First, open the File Inspector, if it is not already open. (Click on View >> Inspector)

In the file inspector you should see a dropdown menu on the top right. If you have never used it before, it may be a bit difficult to notice.

Click on the dropdown menu and select DOCUMENT.

Now in the File Inspector, under the properties tab, under the sub category WEBSITE BUILD, you should see an attribute titled MEDIA FOLDER.

Double click the VALUE to the right of the MEDIA folder and a box will prompt you for the folder name. You can name it whatever you like, such as documents.

Now when you create a link in webeasy, make sure you select FILE for the LINK TYPE and select the file you wish for it to link to.

When you export the files into html (the "build" process in webeasy), it will place all media files (not including images) in that folder.

There is a seperate option for an IMAGES folder in case you would like all your images in that folder.

The only negative side of this feature is that it will sort ALL your media files in that folder. For some users this may be perfectly fine, but if you are a more advanced user who is familiar with using FTP instead of the publisher assistant, you may want multiple sub-folders for different types of media and so forth.


Hello Support_AK. I'm a Newbie to WebEasy but not to webpages as I used Frontpage previously. I'm struggling with linking a PDF document and feel I'm getting close to figuring it out.

I have a question regarding the instructions above...I believe I have understood and done everything that was mentioned, however, when I go to Preview to see if the link works, I get "...Navigation to the webpage was canceled..".

Should I be able to see the document when in Preview? I think I should because everything else works...What am I doing wrong?

I would appreciate any insight...

KMN

[davidrosso]

Should I be able to see the document when in Preview? I think I should because everything else works...What am I doing wrong?

I would appreciate any insight...

KMN

Probably not since the pdf file doesn't really exist in the media folder until the folder is actually created during the export/build process.

I suggest uploading it to your server and see if it works online. Not everything that works online will work on your local pc. And vice versa.

[KMN]

Probably not since the pdf file doesn't really exist in the media folder until the folder is actually created during the export/build process.

I suggest uploading it to your server and see if it works online. Not everything that works online will work on your local pc. And vice versa.

Okay...that makes me feel better. I will do as suggested and thanks for the insight. It was driving me crazy. I've been spoiled with Frontpage...

KMN