If your users have MS Office 97 installed, they can select a save
as HTML and it will automatically redesign the page in HTML. They
can ftp the file or send it by script to the directory that you
want it to go in. You can modify the Options, Save location for
workgroup files to the HTML directory that you want it to go to
as well or create webpages and save them in the workgroup
location for others to use as templates which will help with a
similar look and feel to the whole site. By creating a template
in their workgroup folder, you can add the buttons and links to
the home site and they just get a blank screen that they can type
in normally. Although our Intranet is on an NT server, I'm
certain that if they save the files on the Novell network, you
can write a script to copy the files to the UNIX box location in
the evening or publish it manually.
That is part of the solution I came up with for our Intranet
because I just didn't have time to clean up a lot of stuff at
work. Since my users weren't doing anything too fancy this
solution works pretty well. The nice thing is that they can use
tables and all the formatting they want and it's converted. If
they use graphic files, the would need to know how Office97
stores the graphic. It's stored as a gif and a number. If they do
a save as to the HTML location, the graphic will convert and
store with the document without them having to even know what
graphic it is/was.
Hope this helps.
Cherise Greski
ABC Enterprises
-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Eades [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 21, 1998 2:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WC:>: document publishing?
On 21 Aug 98, Rolf Kraiker wrote:
> One of the things I'd like to tackle soon is
> establishing a process to make publishing documents a fairly
painless
> process for my users. The standard word processor for the
institution is
> MSWord. All the computers are linked on a Novell network and
the web
> server will be a UNIX or Linux box.
I'm involved in something similar at the moment, evaluating
intranet publishing solutions for a government client. The
approaches I'm
looking at run the gamut from (at the low end) simply ensuring
that
everyone has a copy of the appropriate WP>HTML conversion utility
installed, to dedicated server-side conversion and posting
applications.
The solution I like best is called Transit Central from
InfoAccess Ltd, the
people who make the HTML Transit conversion application. It
automatically converts documents from many native formats
(including
Excel and PowerPoint) as per a pre-defined template, and then
uploads
new or amended pages to the appropriate site directories as
needed.
However, this is costly -- $3,995 for a one-server license -- and
likely
overkill for my client's fairly small volume of documents to be
published
each month.
What I'll probably go with is a Javascript approach, installing
an HTML
conversion script that users will access through a form; they
would
upload MS Word documents via the form to the appropriate
directory, and
the script will do the necessary HTML formatting (i.e., stripping
out Word
formatting and replacing it with corresponding HTML codes, then
plugging
it into a template.) The sysadmin will likely have to do a
little manual
clean-up before the new files are actually posted, but nothing
too onerous.
(This is going on an NT server BTW, which is why I'm using JS
rather than
Perl.)
For more info on Transit Central:
http://www.infoaccess.com/intranet/intranet.htm
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Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Town of Almonte site: http://www.almonte.com/
Business site: http://www.federalweb.com
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