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(Message started by: hunt529 on Apr 21^st, 2006, 10:47am)

Title: IMPORTING & FRAME SETS
Post by hunt529 on Apr 21^st, 2006, 10:47am

I am relatively new to using HP and am trying to get my head around how this system works.
In truth If I can't figure this out I am thinking of giving up on this product -- it feels very cumbersome. I really need some help on it.

Objective:
Ideally I am trying to create a simple frame set with a left-hand navigation in the left frame that calls new pages within the right frame.

What I have done

1. I can successfully generate a long series of framed pages from a CSV import which break down my data into category pages, sub categor pages and product pages. These pages don't seem to be in the frameset that I have specified.

2. I believe I have successfully generated a frameset

What I am having trouble with

1. I want the "category" / "subcategories" pages generated by the CSV import to be the left hand navigation pages

2. I want the "product" pages generated by the CSV import to be the right hand content pages

Is there some easy way to do this. I can't very well apply the same frame set to all the indivudally created pages one at a time? I have some 2,000 product pages?

Please HELP?

Title: Re: showing product pages in a frame
Post by Support Staff on Apr 21^st, 2006, 11:03am

Hi! I'd suggest to open a new file and test the two ways you can manage a framed menu, by following the Tutorial "How to create a left frame menu"
(that's in the help, hit F1, then click on Tutorials).

Meantime, I will try to explain what you can do, but if you do not know how frames work, my explain may be difficult to follow.

Basically, when you import product pages, it creates plain category and subcategory pages.

But the good news is that the link from subcategory pages to product pages can be "special links" and can be edited in order to show the product pages in specific ways.

You should do this before the import, so the links will be automatically created with these special settings.

1) Select the "Subcategory pages" tab. On the bottom right, press the button "product link properties". Then, in the dialog that will be shown, select the 3rd tab, and where you see "Target page shows in selected frame, or in frame named here" please write (say) "ProductFrame" as name.

2) Then, you do not need to "frame" each product page.
You may just divide in frame each subcategory page. Just divide the page in a frame named "MenuFrame" and another frame named "ProductFrame" (the name must be the one you selected before - you see we said "ProductFrame").

If you do this way, after the import, any link on the subcategory page (that has becomed actually a menu) will show the product page within the frame "ProductFrame".

Be sure to test this in Preview mode (Hypertext >Read only) as Special links do not correctly preview in Editor mode.

It may be interesting to see that the same settings work for showing the product page as separate window. Just place the proper settings at the step 1.

These things are not very easy to explain with words but what you can do is very powerful. We'd suggest, as said, to try the Tutorial "How to create a left side menu" in order to better understand how Special links and Frames powerfully work in the software...

:)

Title: Re: IMPORTING & FRAME SETS
Post by Support Staff on Apr 21^st, 2006, 11:09am

Another thing: in my explain, the subcategory is a menu (possibly on the left side) and the product is on the right side.

What about to show the category somewhere? Well this can be done manually, by editing the links that from the category pages go to the subcat.

These links may force the product to show the set (subcat + product) within a certain frame, i.e.

category frame on top

subcat product
frame frame
on
left

or maybe

categ subcat product
frame frame

This can be added / modified on the top of the trick explained in the previous post.
This will mean to edit manually all the "categories" pages, but if you have say 10-30 categories this is not too much work, just 10-30 pages while the subcat / product pages are automatically ok..... and everything can be fully edited.... quite powerful, isn't it? :)