How update my files

[Freddy Coal]

Hi, I'm very newbie. I make a simple page for link with two folder inside my
server, this is my question:

Inside each folder, I have other folders, and inside of each folder, I have
two or three PDF files. How can automatically get all the paths of my PDF
files for make a page that link to each PDF?, how refresh that if update the
folder with more PDF files?.

Thanks a lot for any help.

Freddy Coal

 

[DavidF]

Perhaps this will help. Reference: Including external files in a Publisher
web:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/07/80561.aspx

DavidF

 

[Freddy Coal]

David, thanks a lot for your answer, but I need make this automatically,
because I have more than 1000 *.doc, and link one to one is very expensive
time.



I have my index.htm inside of my main folder, and inside subfolders for
states, an in each state, I have subfolders of cities, and finally in each
site, two or three *.doc or PDF file, how take all that file paths for make
my homepage in Publisher? ; How update that when add new states in the main
folder? .



Thanks in advance if you can help me.



Freddy Coal

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

You may try: just display it as a list by putting them all in a folder, have
your host enable folder browsing on that folder and NOT put an index file in
that folder...then just create a hyperlink to the folder.


| David, thanks a lot for your answer, but I need make this automatically,
| because I have more than 1000 *.doc, and link one to one is very expensive
| time.
|
|
|
| I have my index.htm inside of my main folder, and inside subfolders for
| states, an in each state, I have subfolders of cities, and finally in each
| site, two or three *.doc or PDF file, how take all that file paths for
make
| my homepage in Publisher? ; How update that when add new states in the
main
| folder? .
|
|
|
| Thanks in advance if you can help me.
|
|
|
| Freddy Coal
|
|
| | > Perhaps this will help. Reference: Including external files in a
Publisher
| > web:
| > http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/07/80561.aspx
| >
| > DavidF
| >
| > | >> Hi, I'm very newbie. I make a simple page for link with two folder
inside
| >> my server, this is my question:
| >>
| >> Inside each folder, I have other folders, and inside of each folder, I
| >> have two or three PDF files. How can automatically get all the paths of
| >> my PDF files for make a page that link to each PDF?, how refresh that
if
| >> update the folder with more PDF files?.
| >>
| >> Thanks a lot for any help.
| >>
| >> Freddy Coal
| >>
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Mike Koewler]

Freddy,

It's a little late to be asking for a "how to" when you have "more than
1000" pages you want to link to. Not to mention, no one in their right
mind is going to have a thousand links on a page.

One thing you can do is to use an ftp program and create 50 folders -
one for each state. Don't put any html files, or at least not an
index.html or home.html or similar. Then put a link to that folder on
your main page. When someone clicks on it, they will be presented with a
list of files they can open or download. If you need to break it down
further, for a state like Ohio, you could have subfolders called
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati (the three largest cities) and Other Cities.

If you want to see what it looks like, try this link:
http://www.valleycat.net/premier/

My pages are named page1, page2, etc., because they are pages in my
newspaper.

Mike

 

[DavidF]

Freddy,

I think that both Rob and Mike offered some good suggestions for you to
consider. I would add that you need to remember that Publisher is a DTP that
has the capability of producing fairly basic, simple, static sites....and
relatively small sites. If you have 1000 files that you need to link to,
from your website, you may have already outgrown Publisher and should
consider different web design software. I would suggest that you look into
server side software, and perhaps a server side database to contain and
organize your downloadable files. Perhaps ASP.NET http://www.asp.net/ or
some other dynamic website software. The larger a Publisher website gets,
the harder it is to manage.

With that said, I know of no way to automatically do what you want to do
with Publisher. You would have to write each link to each downloadable file
by hand. To update, you would edit your original Publisher file, and upload
the change.

I have found that it can be helpful to organize and manage larger Publisher
sites by building them with multiple Publisher files. That way you don't
have to upload the whole site each time you edit just one part of the site.
Reference: Building a web site with multiple Publisher web publication
files:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/16/81264.aspx
David Bartosik describes one way of doing this and the basic concept.
Personally I prefer to use subfolders to contain the html output from my
different Publisher files, and allow Publisher to use the default index.htm
naming convention. It is easier for me to remember than if I rename the
files, but the concept is the same.

HTH

DavidF

 

[Freddy Coal]

Well Rob, actually I have your solution, but I would like implement a better
solution, more nice to the clients.

Thanks for your answer, my best regards : )

 

[Freddy Coal]

Mike, never is late, and my company work with cartography, and in the world
you have thousands of cities.

Actually, I have a solution, but the page is very ugly, you know, only you
see folders and files, and my question is for make a better page, more nice,
but maybe Publisher not is the correct tool for me.

Thanks a lot for your answer, my best regards.

Freddy Coal

 

[Freddy Coal]

Thanks again for your answer David, well, maybe Publisher not is the correct
tool for me; Now I'm trying to learn ASP, for make a better solution.

My initial solution is make a program in VB.Net that get all the files and
the paths inside of the main folder, and put all this data in publisher with
a format.

You know a free tool that work with GIS (Geographic Information System) in
HTML?, I would like put a map, and click in the states for download
information.

My best regards.

Freddy Coal

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Use a database, that way it will be searchable as well.

You will hit a wall with Publisher created websites any second now. You may
want to look at Expression Web (new Microsoft product) and there's free
trial now.




| Well Rob, actually I have your solution, but I would like implement a
better
| solution, more nice to the clients.
|
| Thanks for your answer, my best regards : )
|
| | > You may try: just display it as a list by putting them all in a folder,
| > have
| > your host enable folder browsing on that folder and NOT put an index
file
| > in
| > that folder...then just create a hyperlink to the folder.
| >
| >
| > | > | David, thanks a lot for your answer, but I need make this
automatically,
| > | because I have more than 1000 *.doc, and link one to one is very
| > expensive
| > | time.
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > | I have my index.htm inside of my main folder, and inside subfolders
for
| > | states, an in each state, I have subfolders of cities, and finally in
| > each
| > | site, two or three *.doc or PDF file, how take all that file paths for
| > make
| > | my homepage in Publisher? ; How update that when add new states in the
| > main
| > | folder? .
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > | Thanks in advance if you can help me.
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > | Freddy Coal
| > |
| > |
| > | | > | > Perhaps this will help. Reference: Including external files in a
| > Publisher
| > | > web:
| > | > http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/07/80561.aspx
| > | >
| > | > DavidF
| > | >
| > | > | > | >> Hi, I'm very newbie. I make a simple page for link with two folder
| > inside
| > | >> my server, this is my question:
| > | >>
| > | >> Inside each folder, I have other folders, and inside of each
folder,
| > I
| > | >> have two or three PDF files. How can automatically get all the
paths
| > of
| > | >> my PDF files for make a page that link to each PDF?, how refresh
that
| > if
| > | >> update the folder with more PDF files?.
| > | >>
| > | >> Thanks a lot for any help.
| > | >>
| > | >> Freddy Coal
| > | >>
| > | >
| > | >
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|

 

[DavidF]

Freddy,

I am sorry, I don't know of such a tool. I have seen what you want to do
where they use maps of the US, and you can click on each state to go to the
information available for that state. I don't where to send you to find out
how they do that. Perhaps someone else will read this and understand the
technique(s), and offer a suggestion...

I wasn't necessarily suggesting that you learn ASP. I was just suggesting
that you should probably switch to something a lot more powerful that
Publisher. I would suggest that you spend sometime investigating the various
programs out there, such as Rob suggested, the new Web Expression, and find
the software that will make it most easy for you to manage such a large
site. Even the new SharePoint Designer might be a good choice. Look at
server side solutions... Look around...there are a lot of options to gain
the dynamic functions you need. Good luck.

DavidF