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Keith
I would like to have a 3rd-party calendar program run from one of the
navigation bar buttons. Is this possible?
I've installed the calendar program on my hosted web server (took
forever to install), but how do I proceed.
I've been looking thru the NOF manual and an HTML book, but I'm really
out of my element here. I guess what I need is the stupid user, hand
holding version. So...
Spell it out for me and type very slowly!
Thanks to all,
Keith
khunter at drksystems dot com
Charles Edmonds
> I would like to have a 3rd-party calendar program run from one of the
> navigation bar buttons. Is this possible?
>
> I've installed the calendar program on my hosted web server (took
> forever to install), but how do I proceed.
>
> I've been looking thru the NOF manual and an HTML book, but I'm really
> out of my element here. I guess what I need is the stupid user, hand
> holding version. So...
>
> Spell it out for me and type very slowly!
Hi Keith,
Just select the menubar in the page view, press F3 for the properties
panel, use the custom menu feature, select an EXTERNAL URL and make that
point to the URL of the calendar.
Does that help?
Charles
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Keith
I'm not sure I did this right...
-I went to the actual page on my site "Calendar".
-Clicked on the Menu Bar and selected the Custom radio button on the
properties.
-Then I click on Edit Custom and select External Link.
-I point to the URL of the Perl script here?
This is the application I'm attempting to use.
http://www.webcalng.com/
I'm also working with their support group to make sure I've installed it
correctly (not to mention on how to start the application). This is
very new to me...
Thanks again!
Keith
In article <1sltqirecn1im.yr7ayzgnzpdw$.d...@40tude.net>,
cje_ByteM...@lansrad.com says...
Charles Edmonds
> I'm not sure I did this right...
>
> -I went to the actual page on my site "Calendar".
> -Clicked on the Menu Bar and selected the Custom radio button on the
> properties.
> -Then I click on Edit Custom and select External Link.
> -I point to the URL of the Perl script here?
>
> This is the application I'm attempting to use.
> http://www.webcalng.com/
>
> I'm also working with their support group to make sure I've installed it
> correctly (not to mention on how to start the application). This is
> very new to me...
That's Ok, your doing fine and are almost there!
There are typically two ways to add an external calendar to your site.
1. You can pull it "into" your site by running the external page inside an
Iframe.
2. You can "link" to the external page from a menu item on your site.
After looking at the demo of the page you provided, it looks like simply
linking to the external calendar page might be best.
To do that, you have to have a custom menu on your site. You would not
need a calendar page in your own site structure (unless you wanted to have
a landing page that told people about the calendar and then link to it).
To add the calendar as a link follow these steps:
1) Go to the page where you want the link to originate
2) Click the navigation bar to select it
3) Press F3 and open the properties panel (if it is not open)
4) Click the "Custom" radio button
5) Click the "Edit" button.
6) Build your navigation that you want to be visible from that page (this
can include internal pages on your site as well as the external page).
Now let's assume that you are leaving your calendar page in the site
structure (so you can put descriptive things there) and want to link to the
external calendar.
In that case, at a minimum you might want a button back to the home page as
well as a link to the calendar.
To do this, here are the steps:
7) After you click edit, you select the HOME page and click "add".
8) Then you click the external link style and enter the needed to access
the calendar installed on your site (this is whatever you have to type in
the browser to get to it).
9) Click Save
10). Double-click in the name column and "rename" it to "Calendar"
11). Click "add"
12). Click "Ok"
The calendar page in your site would now have two buttons - one back to the
home page, the other to your (external) calendar page.
(see attached screen shots)
You could also build the entire navigation (say on the home page and at
that level of the master border) and then of course you'd add other
internal pages as well. This is a little more work (normally NOF automates
the entire menu from you), but it would allow you to eliminate the internal
calendar page if you like.
Keith
cje_ByteM...@lansrad.com says...
> You can pull it "into" your site by running the external page inside an
> Iframe.
>
>
I got the IFrame to work. I had to do a bit of searching to find out
what it was as the help feature doesn't mention it. I did find it
eventually.
Now all I have to do is get the app running properly. I'm working with
the developer on that issue.
Thanks again for your assistance. As soon as this portion works, I'm
going to save all my work as templates then install version 11.
Keith
Charles Edmonds
> I got the IFrame to work. I had to do a bit of searching to find out
> what it was as the help feature doesn't mention it. I did find it
> eventually.
>
> Now all I have to do is get the app running properly. I'm working with
> the developer on that issue.
>
> Thanks again for your assistance. As soon as this portion works, I'm
> going to save all my work as templates then install version 11.
Hi Keith,
Glad you got it sorted out.
Sorry that I didn't mention more details on it (Iframes are native in NOF10
and NOF11). There is a Iframe generator at www.beyondfusion.com (for
future reference).
Getting it all working then exporting to V11 sounds like a plan. Of course
if you decide to use the built-in Iframe feature of V11, it should be as
easy as placing the control onscreen and hooking up your external URL.
Good luck on your project!
;-)