Get HTML question

I am trying to import 150 .htm pages with the “Get HTML” command from the File menu. The problem is that every page that gets imported has the Master Page settings applied to it. How do I get the pages that are imported to have their own settings?

I have tried creating a new master page with the settings that I’d like the 150 pages to have, but it never gives me the option of selecting which master page to base the imported pages on. Is there a way to do this? I am running FW Pro 4.4.2. Thanks.

TB


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You may be setting yourself up for a lot of grief and work. At best this feature is far less than ideal and if you need to import 150 pages, well, FW is not the tool for importing.

If you’re trying to avoid completely rebuilding a site then I’m sorry to say to get the most out of FW you’ll need to build it in FW. If there’s another reason for doing this let us know.

Todd

On Mar 30, 2008, at 11:08 AM, twb716 wrote:

I am trying to import 150 .htm pages with the “Get HTML” command from the File menu. The problem is that every page that gets imported has the Master Page settings applied to it. How do I get the pages that are imported to have their own settings?

I have tried creating a new master page with the settings that I’d like the 150 pages to have, but it never gives me the option of selecting which master page to base the imported pages on. Is there a way to do this? I am running FW Pro 4.4.2. Thanks.

The reason for doing this is because each of the 150 pages is a list of addresses within a certain zip code, which will appear in an iFrame when that particular zip code is selected from a list. See my post on lists here:

http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/29610#m_29979

The .htm files were created from a Microsoft Excel sheet that listed all of the zip codes and addresses.

I guess this question has turned into a feature request for upcoming releases- the request being to be able to pick which master page imported HTML files get their settings from.

Thanks for your response. If anyone else has any ideas on how I can do this, please feel free to add to the post. Thanks again.

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Yes, I mean none of these are in any danger of being in the daily slurp are they? (for those who don’t know what I am talking about - dailyslurp.com


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On 30 Mar 2008, at 20:08, John-Paul Kernot wrote:

Yes, I mean none of these are in any danger of being in the daily
slurp are they? (for those who don’t know what I am talking about -
dailyslurp.com

Now how difficult would it have been to have made that a clickable
link for the benefit of all your friends here? Not very.

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dailyslurp.com

Now how difficult would it have been to have made that a clickable
link for the benefit of all your friends here? Not very.

This is a good point that needs to be mentioned every now and then.

Please, when anyone puts a URL into a post here, include the WHOLE
thing. And I don’t mean just putting www. in front of it; that
doesn’t make a complete URL and won’t be clickable for all people
here. ALWAYS, please, put http:// in front, if it is a web address.

For example, http://www.dailyslurp.com

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Instead of trying to go through the HTML Import feature, which is
going to cause a lot of work in cleanup, why not start again at the
Excel source. Freeway has really robust CSV import, and Excel makes
nice CSV.

If you have a single Excel sheet that represents the content of a
single Zip code, then strip down that sheet to only the columns you
need to show, and save it as CSV.

In Freeway, draw a 1 row X N columns (where N is the number of
columns you have in your CSV table).

Click inside the first cell of the table so you get a flashing text
cursor, and choose File: Import Text (Apple-E) from the main menu.
Navigate to the CSV file you created in Excel and change the Import
picker from Text/RTF to Comma-delimited. Press Okay, and watch in
slack-jawed amazement as Freeway makes a table to fit your data. It
will grow the table and the page down to the number of rows needed by
your input data.

Once you grasp this technique, you will be amazed at how quickly you
can re-make all of those pages as native Freeway content.

And with that many pages, I would also recommend you think about
putting the content in a database somewhere so you won’t have to
manage it in static files again. One template page could stand in for
all of the Zip codes, and all that you would need to do is pass the
Zip code to it as a variable: detail.php?zip=19027.

Walter

On Mar 30, 2008, at 3:05 PM, twb716 wrote:

The reason for doing this is because each of the 150 pages is a
list of addresses within a certain zip code, which will appear in
an iFrame when that particular zip code is selected from a list.
See my post on lists here:

http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/29610#m_29979

The .htm files were created from a Microsoft Excel sheet that
listed all of the zip codes and addresses.


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On 30 Mar. 2008, 7:37 pm, thatkeith wrote:

dailyslurp.com

Now how difficult would it have been to have made that a clickable
link for the benefit of all your friends here? Not very.

This is a good point that needs to be mentioned every now and then.

Please, when anyone puts a URL into a post here, include the WHOLE
thing. And I don’t mean just putting www. in front of it; that
doesn’t make a complete URL and won’t be clickable for all people
here. ALWAYS, please, put http:// in front, if it is a web address.

For example, http://www.dailyslurp.com

k

Correctly chastised! I am too used to highlighting content then using command-shift-L to find it!

http://www.apple.com/support/pages/shortcuts/


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On 31 Mar 2008, at 18:01, John-Paul Kernot wrote:

Correctly chastised! I am too used to highlighting content then
using command-shift-L to find it!

http://www.apple.com/support/pages/shortcuts/

I went to have a look at that (thanks for the full URL, by the way:-)
but it seemed to be shortcuts for Apple’s ‘Pages’. What do you use it
in?

best wishes

Paul Bradforth

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Sometime around 31/3/08 (at 13:01 -0400) John-Paul Kernot said:

I am too used to highlighting content then using command-shift-L to find it!

http://www.apple.com/support/pages/shortcuts/

A good trick, for those that know it. :wink:

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oops - I had too many tabs open and pasted an incorrect URL

Using Safari (if you do), highlight a word(s) and then go command-shift-L and it will do a google search - or should do.


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