I’m looking for a solution that expands the possibilities of the “Upload extra resources” action allowing external files being located anywhere within the website’s directory tree.
For example:
Let’s say I have a page ./Products/list.html containing links to various PDF documents that should be located within an other folder, ./Downlods/Products/ .
By using the action mentioned above, I can either add them to the resources folder or put them together with the HTML page only.
So far, the only solution I found is to create an empty page at ./Downloads/Products/, add the “Upload extra resources” action there and select the option “With page’s HTML file”.
The pre-requisite is to keep the ./Downloads/Products/ folder free from any other contents but the PDF documents. And above solution causes at least an (otherwise useless) webpage and two empty folders (“css” and “resources”) residing there.
Maybe someone of the community faced a similar problem over the past and found a solution (other than managing the ./Downloads folder outside FW, of course
Tim Plumb did something like this that used AppleScript to modify the Site Folder in between publishing and upload. It was a massive hack, and incredibly, it seemed to work. I’m not sure what the state of it is these days.
Walter
On May 18, 2012, at 5:54 PM, DeltaDave wrote:
I don’t think that I am going to be much help as I do feel that is easier to manage a folder like this outside of FW.
As a rule I will use FTP to create folders for PDFs, images and downloads on the server that I will create External links to within FW.
In my mind there is nothing easier than Transmit for this task.
Thank you for all your comments. I’ll read through the link from chuckamuck.
@DeltaDave: My idea was to manage this with Freeway, because when adding or removing PDFs, I could do that all at one place without taking special care while uploading files.
I did so in the past and it worked great, but this time, the “documents” folder is also used by some external apps, so there is nothing else allowed than the PDFs… we’ll see.
@DeltaDave: My idea was to manage this with Freeway, because when adding or removing PDFs, I could do that all at one place without taking special care while uploading files.
I understand but sometimes you have to step outside of FW.
