Update/Upload settings
Update information via Internet
The program allows users holding your CD to update product information, retrieve missing images, descriptions
and news via Interne
The update configuration options are located in the Configurator’s
corresponding section.
Updates location on FTP server
(See FAQ for more information)
Specify the folder where the information is to be located on the server. The
recommended location is /htdocs/your_folder. All the subfolders
required for proper work will be created automatically when the first
upload is performed.
Port – enter your FTP server port.
Updates HTTP location
Enter the same address as you have specified in the field FTP address.
For more information please address to your administrator or hosting
provider.
Port – enter your HTTP server port.
If you do not plan to support updates via Internet, select the option
“Do not use Internet updating”
on the Configurator menu.
The Update item will be disabled on the Catalog menu.
More on the Catalog update options
FTP configuration
To access FTP server you should specify the server address, your login
and password.
The information is safely encrypted and is not disclosed to your client.
Having entered other required information, click on the “Upload data
to server” button.
That will open the “Upload” window.
In the upper part of the program’s window, select the objects to
be uploaded to the server.
By default, all options are selected.
Clicking on the “Upload” button starts uploading data to the
specified FTP server.
Query FTP
The “Upload” window displays files that are to be uploaded to
the FTP server. Those files are marked as
.
Clicking on the “Query FTP” button compares files to be uploaded
with files on the server. Once the comparison is complete, only files
that are not yet on the server will remain selected. This feature’s
purpose is simply informing users of the files that are already on
the server.
The “Images” tab
lists image files to be uploaded to the server. Due to large size of
high quality images prepared for demonstrating off the CD, it is
recommended to upload images of smaller size (scaled). Otherwise,
your clients that use dial-up connection to the Internet may be
unable to complete downloading the images. To reduce images’
size, select the option “Reduce image size before upload”.
Otherwise the images will be uploaded unchanged.
Use runner to specify the maximum image size. Files marked in red will be
reduced to the specified size.
To evaluate the total size of update files to be uploaded, click the
“Reduce images” button. This is an informative feature
only.
To visually compare the original and reduced images, press the “View”
button.
The “Documents” tab
lists description files to be uploaded to the server. After querying
FTP, description files that are to be uploaded are marked as
.
This is an informative feature only.
The lower part of the “Upload” window displays the progress
bar.
The contents of the window can be saved to a text file. To save the
window to a text file, click on the “Save” button.
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