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Re: FAQ Tree

🔗Robert Walker <robert_walker@rcwalker.freeserve.co.uk>

4/25/2001 12:16:37 AM

Try out of idea of a TL posts folder
http://members.nbci.com/tune_smithy/tree/tree/index.html

No frames navigation:
http://members.nbci.com/tune_smithy/tree/tree/h/index.html

Anything placed in the TL posts folder is for the working draft tree only.

In fact, the only place where anything is actually kept on site relating to it is in
http://members.nbci.com/tune_smithy/tree/tree/tree.txt
= if you look through the file you will see the urls amongst all the $$s

These are the FAQ drafts that I know of from msg 20000 onwards so far.

To put an entry in there, go to the database, and choose Add record,
and then fill in "TL posts" as the parent folder, and the url for the url,
and fill in the author and title fields.

It won't appear in the tree straight away - I have to refresh it first,
which I do by running a program that ftps from the database and makes
the tree.txt file.

So, at least we can see which posts are being discussed, and if any
get left out, one can point that out, and it is a matter of moments
to add it in.

Since link is to post in the TL, then one thing at least, by
following its thread, one _may_ find some of the later corrections to it!

When selecting which message number to use, I chose the latest version
that actually starts with the draft, rather than the correction pages.

If you want it to show a newer post, then visit the database, find
the entry, and update the url, and it will change next time I refresh
the tree.

(You can sort the Yahoo database by clicking on one of the headers,
say, on the parents folder field, and so easily find the entries for
TL posts as the folder).

However best way to have an up to date FAQ draft is still to make a file,
say in the TL files area, and keep it up to date there, then it will
INSTANTLY be up to date in the tree, as the tree shows the actual page
that you edit, rather than an ftp-d copy of it.

You can get to the other trees and the faqs from the links page in the
tree:
http://members.nbci.com/tune_smithy/tree/tree/links.html

Robert