[farcry-dev] Re: Batch Loading

[Tim Lucas]

Mike Britton spoke the following wise words on 23/02/2004 3:28 PM EST: I'm converting an existing site and one requirement is batch loading. Currently there's nothing prebuilt to assist you with batch loading into FarCry. There was talk on this list a while back about how we may approach this, but nothing has yet eventuated. How big is the website? How do I batch load HTML pages You can write your own script based on the SiteBuilder tool that's currently ships with FarCry. The main problem is that you're going from a relatively unorganised format (I assume) to a rigid and metadata rich format (trees, categorisation, content reuse). To take full advantage of FarCry you'd definately be looking at recreating everything in FarCry. The advantage is once you've created it using FarCry then it's relatively future proof as if you need to migrate to another system in the future you have access to all the tree and content methods to extract the data. [How do I batch load] includes and images? Not sure what you mean by includes. You could batch import images giving them all generic names, but is that really any easier than going and adding in all the images through FarCry's regular admin interface? This way you can assign meaningful metadata to the image -- IMO a significant ROI on the time it takes to add them. Adding images via the admin interface is easy and can easily be done by anybody with basic computer literacy and 5 minutes of training. HTH -- tim www.toolmantim.com --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004