Re: [WriteFile] problems
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = I have found my problem with paths and [WriteFile] and it apparently has something to do w/Filemaker 3.02 and using slashes in a field exported as a Merge format. Not sure, but I got it working ok.But this creator code issue is confusing:The [WriteFile] talk came up early in the week under the thread about rendering sites when I asked:>We're building a big travel/tourism site and want do the whole thing in >WebCatalog but we want WC to write out files to disk so we can serve >them conventionally (for the benefit of robots and spiders)and Grant said:>That's an excellent idea for sites that don't need to be dynamic...and we've been busy using this approach (though on a record by record basis) for our project. But now in response to my query about how [WriteFile] deals w/creator codes:> >We are writing these files out so they can be served via Web* and not > >through WC. Will this creator code cause us problems?Grant replied:> Yes it will, unless you've got FileBuddy or something like that to automatically change the creator codes back. We are planning to add an optional filetype parameter to [WriteFile] so you can control this, but we are at code lockdown now so it won't show up until the next beta I'm afraid.I'm really confused at this point. We have about finished a big site that will give an unlimited number of users access to a database and a library of templates so they can render their pages to disk at will so their pages will be found by the search engines. And it seems to be working fine and WebStar has no problem serving these rendered pages regardless of the file type issue. So will this or won't this approach work??Karl
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I have found my problem with paths and
[writefile] and it apparently has something to do w/Filemaker 3.02 and using slashes in a field exported as a Merge format. Not sure, but I got it working ok.But this creator code issue is confusing:The
[writefile] talk came up early in the week under the thread about rendering sites when I asked:>We're building a big travel/tourism site and want do the whole thing in >WebCatalog but we want WC to write out files to disk so we can serve >them conventionally (for the benefit of robots and spiders)and Grant said:>That's an excellent idea for sites that don't need to be dynamic...and we've been busy using this approach (though on a record by record basis) for our project. But now in response to my query about how
[writefile] deals w/creator codes:> >We are writing these files out so they can be served via Web* and not > >through WC. Will this creator code cause us problems?Grant replied:> Yes it will, unless you've got FileBuddy or something like that to automatically change the creator codes back. We are planning to add an optional filetype parameter to
[writefile] so you can control this, but we are at code lockdown now so it won't show up until the next beta I'm afraid.I'm really confused at this point. We have about finished a big site that will give an unlimited number of users access to a database and a library of templates so they can render their pages to disk at will so their pages will be found by the search engines. And it seems to be working fine and WebStar has no problem serving these rendered pages regardless of the file type issue. So will this or won't this approach work??Karl
Karl Schroll
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