Publish Preferences

The Publish Preferences is used to set the information needed to Publish the calendar either to a local or network attached folder or to an FTP site. All of these preferences are associated with an individual calendar. The values can be different for each calendar being worked on. If you are doing a calendar for two different clubs, you would have a separate calendar for each club.

The first text box is the local directory the into which the calendar will be generated. The Browse button to the right allows you to navigate to find the directory. By default, the directory is set the a folder with the same name as the calendar file under your "My Documents" folder. That is, if the calender is stored in "ClubEvents.wcal", then the default directory would be "My Documents/ClubEvents". You set this file to any File on your computer or to a file on a network attached drive. If you are publishing to a folder,
then the this is where the generated web pages will go. If you are publishing to a web site via FTP,
then this is a staging area.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Parameters

The FTP Host, Login, Password, and Target Directory fields hold the information needed to log into a web site and FTP files.

• FTP Host
  This is the DNS name or IP address of the FTP site where the files are to be published. This is the web site where people will go to view the calendar.
   
• FTP Login
  This is the Login ID to use to access the FTP site. This parameter is optional. If you leave it blank, you will be prompted for it when you Publish to the FTP site. If you specify this value, it is saved in the .wcal file.
   
• FTP Passwd
  This is the Password matching the Login ID above. This parameter is optional. If you leave it blank, you will be prompted for it when you Publish to the FTP site. If you specify this value, it is saved in the .wcal file.
   
• FTP Target Dir
  This is the directory into which the web pages will be published. It is relative to the root directory of the FTP account. This may or may not be the root of the web site depending upon how the account is set up.
   
  For example, say you are setting up a piece of your web site for the calendar and you want someone else to update the calendar but you do not want them messing with the rest of the site. You set up a sub-directory named calendar for them to use. If you are using a major web hosting company like IX Web you can create an FTP account for them whose root directory is the calendar directory. They cannot get to anything above it.
   
  The target directory is the location relative to where you are when you log in. This directory needs to exist before you do your publish.
   

How Much To Publish

• Whole Calendar
  This option publishes web pages for each month in the calendar starting with the first month for which there is text associated with a day and continuing to the last month for which there is text associated. All intermediate months are included even if they have no data.
   
• One Year
  This option publishes 12 months worth of calendars. It starts with the month specified in the "Start With" set of radio buttons.
   
• Start With Forward
  This options publishes all the months starting with the one specified in the "Start With" set of radio buttons to the last month which has data. All intermediate months are generated.
   
• Custom
  When this option is selected, the Months field below the set of radio buttons becomes active. You can type in the number of months you want.
   

Start With which month

• January
  When this option is selected, the first month published in January of the current year.
   
• Current Month
  When this option is selected, the first month published is the current month.
   
• Last Month
  When this option is selected, the first month published is the month before the current month. That is, if it is August, the first month published is July.
   
• Selected Month
  When this option is selected, the date chooser below the set of radio buttons becomes active. The first month published is the month for the displayed date.
   

File Extension

• .htm
  When this option is selected, the geneated web pages use the suffix .htm which is a common Microsoft Windows suffix.
   
• .html
  When this option is selected, the geneated web pages use the suffix .html which is a common for most web servers.
   

Cell Text Alignment

These radio buttons specify whether the text in a date cell in the generated calendar should be aligned on the left, right, or centered.

Empty FTP Dir On Publish

An Important control on this page is the
.
If checked, all the files in the target directory will be deleted before publishing the calendar. That is why it is strongly recommended that you put the calendar in its own directory. Otherwise the tool may delete files you wanted to keep! If this checkbox is not checked, old entries may accumulate in the directory.

Include wcal File

If this options is checked, the a copy of the web calendar file is included in the directory with the generated web pages. While the wcal file, which contains the internal representation of the file is not a web page, it may be useful to copy it along. If you are publishing to another computer or web site, it puts a back up copy of the calendar file there. This would be really handy if your hard drive crashed or you wanted to work on the file from another computer. This is completely optional.
 
NOTE: If you check this box, the copy that is put on the web site omits the login and password if you had specified them. It is not advisable to put the login and password for a web site on the web site.