Heather,
I wonder if Expression Engine might be a simpler option for you. I’m faced with the same database challenges and am hoping I can meet my client’s needs using this tool. Hugh has an EE action which makes it easier, there is a learning curve and monetary investment but I think its worth considering.
Bill
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On 10 Dec 2008, at 13:20, Bill McCarroll wrote:
I wonder if Expression Engine might be a simpler option for you.
Thanks for that, Bill.
We’ve had a bit of discussion here about what exactly where we want
this thing to go. While my initial questions are valid, I think the
solutions are probably too much for what we need at the start. We feel
we ought to start a little smaller and see if it grows before we get
mired in complexity.
I still want to learn more about this aspect of web design, so I
suspect I shall still work on the full-on solution in the background
over on the Dynamo list.
Thanks everyone.
Heather
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While mentioning Freeway and databases…
I have a site for folk dance.
There are dance names, song or music names, scores, sound samples, dance
steps and notes, example videos, lyrics and translations and cultural
background. At some point it will make very good sense to put all this into
a database and if possible use that straight into populating a web site that
can be searched or browsed dynamically. Or manually inject it every time it
updates.
So far so good - but its all a labour of love and my time is the budget.
My head isn’t so accustomed to focussing on abstracts like code without ways
to quickly ground it in practicality - so I don’t think vertical leaning
curves will get started!
If anyone reading has to suggest or something good to look at as a starter I
would be grateful.
Getting out the front door is halfway anywhere!
regards
Brian
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EE has a way to import lot’s of ‘itens’ or ‘articles’ at once.
There is a ‘plug-in’ called CSVGrab that allows you to import data from a CSV file. In other words, data from a spreadsheet. (http://www.brandnewbox.co.uk/products/details/csvgrab/)
In practice, if you have a tab-limited list (like output from FileMaker) with product-description, name of image and other data, then this ‘plug-in’ takes care of the rest. Your 500 or so images, complete with exact location-on-the-server become - in one click- 500 or so different ‘entrees’ (or articles) in the EE build. Maybe this helps?
(me not being a coder, and on a very low level of working with EE and Freeway…)
succes
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This is interesting - but my inputs are incremental - and as it gets larger
it would be better to have it database driven from the point of the visitor
being able to navigate information in terms of what they seek rather than
scrolling through lots of data.
But thanks - I wonder if Web Yep also does this? (I already have WebYep but
haven’t used it except for a client’s simple update needs).
all the best
Brian
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EE has a way to import lot’s of ‘itens’ or ‘articles’ at once.
There is a ‘plug-in’ called CSVGrab that allows you to import data from a CSV
file. In other words, data from a spreadsheet.
(http://www.brandnewbox.co.uk/products/details/csvgrab/)
In practice, if you have a tab-limited list (like output from FileMaker) with
product-description, name of image and other data, then this ‘plug-in’ takes
care of the rest. Your 500 or so images, complete with exact
location-on-the-server become - in one click- 500 or so different ‘entrees’
(or articles) in the EE build. Maybe this helps?
(me not being a coder, and on a very low level of working with EE and
Freeway…)succes
Hans
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With exact location-on-the-server I mean that (in FileMaker) you can create a calculation field that calculates for all of the records something like http: //www . mysite.com/images/uploads/name_of_image.jpeg If you want you can even complete this with CSS formatting data.
This content becomes (in the transformation through the EE-plug-in) a field in EE that describes the location where to reach the image. Now you yourselve only have to upload all your images at once to this location. Done.
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