Re: FAQ posts

Hi Joseph,

I've had the idea of making a folder in the working draft
tree called

Recent FAQ posts.

Idea is that any links in that folder are for the working
draft tree only, and will be left out of the on-site trees.

Hopefully will make everything a bit clearer.

I haven't done this yet, but as soon as I get back to the
tree program, and will be very easy to do, a one or two
extra lines type of change.

The uploaded working draft tree is just a list of urls
nicely organised in a tree and that's all there is on site.

It has a frame to show the urls in,
and that sometimes gives one the impression that the contents
of the frame are on site. However, all there is on-site is
the frame, and the list of urls, and the tree applet and
a few other related html files.

Since the entry isn't added to the on -site tree at that
point, then removing the link later from the Working draft
tree removes all trace of it.

Then, one could add links to recent FAQ posts in the TL,
by just adding the url for the most recent post in e-groups
- so that selecting it in the working draft tree will just
take you to the message in e-groups.

That's prob. okay I imagine if we put the working draft
tree in a directory excluded from well behaved search engines?

Still at this stage too, it is better if the authors
can upload to a file in the TL files area or their own
web site if they have one, as then they can update it
and it will instantly update in the working draft tree.

Alternatively, each time a new draft is posted, someone
could go to the working draft tree and update the url
with the new tuning list message number, but that isn't
instantaneous - depends on running the FAQ tree program
then uploading the new working draft tree.

If regularly updated, the folder will at least show which FAQs are
being discussed, which is easy to lose sight of when there has
been no activity on some of them for a few weeks.

If authors upload their drafts each time they change them,
eg. to the files area, it will also always show the most recent
version of the draft.

Anyway, more when I finish the FAQ tree program.

Robert

--- In tuning@y..., "Robert Walker" <robert_walker@r...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_21379.html#21379

> Hi Joseph,
>
> I've had the idea of making a folder in the working draft
> tree called
>
> Recent FAQ posts.
>
> Idea is that any links in that folder are for the working
> draft tree only, and will be left out of the on-site trees.
>
> Hopefully will make everything a bit clearer.
>
> I haven't done this yet, but as soon as I get back to the
> tree program, and will be very easy to do, a one or two
> extra lines type of change.
>
> The uploaded working draft tree is just a list of urls
> nicely organised in a tree and that's all there is on site.
>
> It has a frame to show the urls in,
> and that sometimes gives one the impression that the contents
> of the frame are on site. However, all there is on-site is
> the frame, and the list of urls, and the tree applet and
> a few other related html files.
>
> Since the entry isn't added to the on -site tree at that
> point, then removing the link later from the Working draft
> tree removes all trace of it.
>
> Then, one could add links to recent FAQ posts in the TL,
> by just adding the url for the most recent post in e-groups
> - so that selecting it in the working draft tree will just
> take you to the message in e-groups.
>

This sounds great, Robert... then we won't lose the post #s for the
faq entries we are working with. Please let us know when this is
ready so we can try it out.

I noticed that our new member, Kurt Nelson, was asking about the FAQ
tree link... So it should probably be re-posted if it is ready...

best,

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Joseph Pehrson