Is there a way of importing a long html file into a brochure fragment

[ljd]

Hi

I've been designing a complex and rather lovely links page in Dreamweaver. But now the text exceeds the 20,000 character limit for a brochure fragment.

Is it possible for a brochure fragment to say something along the lines of:

!!<<object type="text/html" src="links/linkspage.html">>!!

??

Pretty please?

Liam

[ljd]

Ok, I can do it with the object tag (once i corrected the syntax) but a) it looks ugly and b) i don't think the contents would be indexed by a search engine, which defeats the purpose of the page.

What I would like is to tell actinic "for this brochure page, read in the contents of this html file".
Don't suppose a customvar would work, because it's not attached to a product.

Liam

[jk358]

Why not save your html file in dreamweaver, make a link to it through your site, and ftp the page to your site seperately?

[Mike Hughes]

You can do it with a customvar if you create a dummy product template with a customvar embedded in it. .i.e.:

NETQUOTEVAR:ENDSEPARATOR
NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMBEGIN

<TR>
<TD COLSPAN=5 VALIGN="TOP">
NETQUOTEVAR:TEMPLATEBEGINXML
CUSTOMVAR:CUSTOMFILENAME
NETQUOTEVAR:TEMPLATEENDXML
</TD>
</TR>
NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMEND
NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT


NB. Note that my product templates have 5 columns, I think the standard is 3.

Then on the product properties, enter 'CUSTOMFILENAME' (or whatever you call the customvar, enter the filename and tick all the boxes (or whichever ones you want).

hey presto.

Mike

[ljd]

Originally posted by jk358
Why not save your html file in dreamweaver, make a link to it through your site, and ftp the page to your site seperately?

Well, that's easy enough but it wont fit into the design of the website. I still want all the actinic navigation buttons and so on.

[Mike Hughes]

Or you could also do this with a new brochure fragment template using the following code:

<br>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="100%">
NETQUOTEVAR:INCLUDE yourfilename.html
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Mike

[ljd]

Originally posted by olderscot
Or you could also do this with a new brochure fragment template using the following code:

<br>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="100%">
NETQUOTEVAR:INCLUDE yourfilename.html
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Mike

Excellent, that's what I was looking for. Lots of tidying up with pathnames and things, but it should work.

Thank you mike.

[harlequin]

a neat trick

is to simply choose your included file actually as the fragment template...try it, nice and easy....also, when you then click 'edit' for that fragment template, your included html helpfully opens up directly to edit..

steve q.