Hi Chip: It was my misunderstanding as you had explained it just like this once before - sorry. That said I get it now. I just followed the prompts and filled in the boxes on App Central. I didn't find the ID so it is up with just the name NotePad2011. I can take it down, tweake it and, or, modify it in any way that you want me to test out if that would help. The tutorial is pretty much done as far as I'm concerned and I am wondering what to do with it. I can either send the whole package to you so you can fold it into a larger wiki article on Target Program analysis using the various tools, development, deployment and Management; Or, you can put it up as a stand alone article or whatever you want to do with it. I was also thinking of including the tutorial as one of the files in the Installation Package so readers could just open it in a text editor. A final idea was to create the doc in a html document with active links and indexing on a table of contents instead of the NotePad version. I also don't have a spell checker so that situation is what it is - grin. I have actually downloaded and installed NotePad2011 from App Central and then I had to load it into App Manager but it seems to be working so all is good in Middle Earth this week. Let me know about the App Central ID versus App Name thingy when you are ready and I will send you the Tutorial and related .vbs, xml and even the wepm file, if you want it, as text attachments whenever you are ready. Looking forward to your Sunday Evening Class: Rick USA ----- Original Message ----- From: Chip Orange To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:49 PM Subject: RE: WEScriptFramework Website Data Field Question
Hi Rick, In addition to Jared's info, I just wanted to clarify one point: your app will have two web locations: one for it to be downloaded from (the one everyone would use), and the other which is used to store it's latest update in xml form. As Jared mentioned this question is actually for a third, the author's own personal web site. But back to the xml update for your app: both your app's web site, and it's xml update site can either be based on it's name that it's stored under in app central, or once it's been created on app central, it will then have an ID number, and you can get to these two sites using the ID instead of the name. WEScriptFramework has no way of knowing the ID number, so it has to use the one based on it's name, and it has to assume you'll create it in app central using exactly the name you specified to WEScriptFramework. We've had a discussion recently though, and there is some reason to use the ID number for specifying the web site for the XML update; you could change this over at any time after your app has been created. the reason is that you can then rename your app, and the older versions under the older name, using the ID number, could still get to the xml update site even though it may be stored under a new name later. Many of the existing apps should probably be renamed, in order to allow for an expected large expansion in the number of apps. they should better specify what it is that they do, or at least give themselves a more unique name, rather than just taking the name of their specific program, or taking some generic name. This being said though, it's not trivial to rename an app so that everything happens automatically for the end user (so it appears to them as just another upgrade that ends up with them running the newer version under the newer name). I'm working on a library routine which should help with this, which I plan to make public after it's had some testing. Someone already has an app named just notepad (which seems to do very little), so when you choose a name for this app you'll be forced to choose something else (hopefully more descriptive). so you can see already the need for the renaming concerns. sorry for going on so long about this ... Jared's already given you the answer you probably needed. Chip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: RicksPlace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 5:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: WEScriptFramework Website Data Field Question Hi: While filling out the fields for the WEScriptFramework one of the fields asked for a Website ( I think it was in the help group). Chip had mentioned that we could find the value to put in there after we Added a App to App Central. Where would I find it and would I enter the complete url http//... He also mentioned it was usually the same as the App Name if that helps narrow it down. Thanks: Rick USA
