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From: Alan Oehler (alan.oehler@cellnet.com)
Date: 7/10/98
Time: 1:09:51 PM
I was wondering, has anyone used Site Server's content publishing with "documents" that are actually multiple files.? That is, rather than single Word or Excel files, a collection of files containing one or more HTML files and a bunch of GIFs or JPEGs, maybe even some downloadable ZIP or EXE files? In other words, will the Publish tool take a folder and all its contents rather than single files? When I asked about this in early March on the MS Site Server Beta newsgroup, I was told "no, we're working on that for the next release." Leave it to Microsoft to give you something that overlooks such a fundamental requirement. Anyway, it seems to me that it shouldn't be fundamentally different for an ASP page to identify, package, and otherwise handle a collection of documents in a folder. If the collection represents what is to the user really a single document, all you really need to do extra is identify which file of the set to link to from the Contents page. Anybody deal with this issue yet or have any ideas? Does anyone know of any other third-party products that offer a similar set of tools? My main interest here is allowing a group of engineers to author their own procedures and such in MS Word, create an HTML document and associated GIFs, and then use a web interface to pass the documents into an approval pipeline; then, after all approvals are given (through the same web interface), documents get posted, indexed, etc. on the site so that users can get at them?
Thanks much in advance! P.S. If you reply, I'll be out of the office for a week, so I won't be able to respond right away.