Hello SUG,
For the first time we are setting up Sailwave files to run in Dropbox, with access given to a few people. This bit seems to work well.
Now, our website manager and I am looking for the easiest and most reliable route to publishing and refreshing these onto the club website.
Hope this question makes sense?!
Many thanks
Pete
Hi Peter,
We have been using Google Drive in a similar way that you are using drop box, works well as awayof providing a remote access.
As for publishing to websites, we just use the built in feature ‘publish’ FTP to a website, and then write a little bit of code to examine the file and integrate it in - see Results - Papercourt Sailing Club
(our website is WordPress so fairly simple to do - if there is ny demand for it I can wrap the code up as a plugin )
Results - Papercourt Sailing Club
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Hi Pete - You don’t say what type of web site you are running.
You can publish directly to a conventional website using ftp which is one of the options in the destination when you publish results. You can also publish to a file so you could publish to a subdirectory within Dropbox and then at some point your website manager would transfer these to the website. Or you can publish to an installed application. In this case you would write some relatively simple application that transfers the files to your website. This application will be called by Sailwave with a link to an html file containing the results that you want to publish. Your website manager could probably write this for you, if not let us know and we will help.
It is also possible to host the files on Dropbox (or others such as Google drive) may be this article would be of interest. https://alexcican.com/post/guide-hosting-website-dropbox-github/ and I’m sure there are others as well if you have a Google
Jon
On 2 February 2016 at 20:52, petercook2012@yahoo.com [sailwave] sailwave@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Hello SUG,
For the first time we are setting up Sailwave files to run in Dropbox, with access given to a few people. This bit seems to work well.
Now, our website manager and I am looking for the easiest and most reliable route to publishing and refreshing these onto the club website.
Hope this question makes sense?!
Many thanks
Pete
Jon Eskdale
07530 112233
Skype “eskdale”