Publishing selection from DB on Web

[chlowden]

I am a FM7 neophyte looking for a solution to show a selected part of my DB to potential clients. As a photographer I have a thousands of negs that I have scanned and compiled into FM. I can even publish the whole DB on the net! Very slow though!

I have been approached by potential client asking for certain types of pix but for the moment I do not know how I can show from the DB only those that are pertinent.

The question is:

Can I create a new FM doc that shows only those pix that I ask it to & publish them over the net? Can I have numerous docs running at a time via different web addresses? Or is it poss to create an html template page that is a portal to a FM selection, which is in turn a portal to the main database?

Worst case, how can I get FM to show only the files that I which using id numbers in a new page?

I hope this makes sense.

Thank you in advance

[chlowden]

I am a FM7 neophyte looking for a solution to show a selected part of my DB to potential clients. As a photographer I have a thousands of negs that I have scanned and compiled into FM. I can even publish the whole DB on the net! Very slow though!

I have been approached by potential client asking for certain types of pix but for the moment I do not know how I can show from the DB only those that are pertinent.

The question is:

Can I create a new FM doc that shows only those pix that I ask it to & publish them over the net? Can I have numerous docs running at a time via different web addresses? Or is it poss to create an html template page that is a portal to a FM selection, which is in turn a portal to the main database?

Worst case, how can I get FM to show only the files that I which using id numbers in a new page?

I hope this makes sense.

Thank you in advance

[chlowden]

I am a FM7 neophyte looking for a solution to show a selected part of my DB to potential clients. As a photographer I have a thousands of negs that I have scanned and compiled into FM. I can even publish the whole DB on the net! Very slow though!

I have been approached by potential client asking for certain types of pix but for the moment I do not know how I can show from the DB only those that are pertinent.

The question is:

Can I create a new FM doc that shows only those pix that I ask it to & publish them over the net? Can I have numerous docs running at a time via different web addresses? Or is it poss to create an html template page that is a portal to a FM selection, which is in turn a portal to the main database?

Worst case, how can I get FM to show only the files that I which using id numbers in a new page?

I hope this makes sense.

Thank you in advance

[Garry Claridge]

If you want to use FM Server Advanced you can use Custom Web Publishing (CWP) to control and display whatever you want.

All the best.

Garry

[Garry Claridge]

If you want to use FM Server Advanced you can use Custom Web Publishing (CWP) to control and display whatever you want.

All the best.

Garry

[Garry Claridge]

If you want to use FM Server Advanced you can use Custom Web Publishing (CWP) to control and display whatever you want.

All the best.

Garry

[chlowden]

I'll start saving now

thank you for your help

[chlowden]

I'll start saving now

thank you for your help

[chlowden]

I'll start saving now

thank you for your help

[Garry Claridge]

The alternative maybe the FMWebSchool CAFEphp tool. This allows you to access FM via the web without the need for FM Server Advanced.

Check:

http://www.fmwebschool.com

Good Luck.

Garry

[Garry Claridge]

The alternative maybe the FMWebSchool CAFEphp tool. This allows you to access FM via the web without the need for FM Server Advanced.

Check:

http://www.fmwebschool.com

Good Luck.

Garry

[Garry Claridge]

The alternative maybe the FMWebSchool CAFEphp tool. This allows you to access FM via the web without the need for FM Server Advanced.

Check:

http://www.fmwebschool.com

Good Luck.

Garry

[whitemyer]

I'm not positive whether or not this relates. My photo archives are divded into several categories - Client, Category, Subcategory, etc. And they have keywords associated with each image. When a client logs in, he sees only those images marked as belonging to his company. He can search by keyword (which searches the client, category, subcategory, title, document name and keywords field) or he can "browse". Browsing first brings up a list of all his categories, then when he clicks on a category, it brings up a list of subcategories within the category he selected. Clicking on a subcategory brings up all titles within that subcategory.

I could think of several approaches using this type of system that would limit what the client sees, making it possible to publish the entire database while making it easy and fast to find the appropriate images. I'd be happy to e-mail a clone of my file to you if you'd like.