Don't worry! When GURL Friday exports page titles, she puts the word or words from the initial article field back onto the main title automatically. The URL you get is all taken care of. If you want to get back to it again, don't alter it.
Only the first of the five values will be used in sorting or exporting, but the other four are there for you to use as Finding criteria if you think a GF-URL meets more than one category definition.
The Category and Content lists included in your initial GURL Friday database are pretty darned thorough. But, if you wish to customize them, go to the Select menu, and choose Define Fields. Scroll UP in the ensuing dialog box list, and double-click on the field name "Category". Click the "Edit Values" button in the ensuing dialog box, and edit the list that pops up.
A long, discursive word of caution:
When you categorize a GF-URL in GURL Friday by choosing from the popup menu for Category or Content, FileMaker Pro merely bangs that text into the field you popped up from. Let's say you chose "Tuna" as the category for a few GF-URLs. What you have actually done is to tell GURL Friday to type the text Tuna into the category field from which you popped up the menu. Remember, the field was empty when you popped up the menu, wasn't it?
You may change a GF-URL's category at any time, simply by repopping the menu for that category field, and letting go on another choice. That tells GURL Friday to erase the old text in that field and enter new text. The reason we have given you these categories as a popup menu is that this method makes it easy to Find all of the entries you categorized. The idea is that if you stick to menu choices, your text entry and your Finding requests to GURL Friday will always be consistent, and that's important!
This concept is the only GURL Friday function that seems to trouble people. Just think of it this way: GURL Friday, while a powerful aide, is very literal. GURL Friday will only Find exactly what you ask her to. "Tunafish" does not equal "Tuna", and you won't Find GF-URLs categorised "Tuna" by entering Tunafish as your Find request. You would Find Tunafish by entering Tuna, but that's a horse of a different color. (Aren't you just thrilled that we didn't call it a different kettle of fish?)
You may consult your FileMaker Pro manual for help with "wildcard" searching and other advanced Finding routines, but the easiest way to keep things working quickly and accurately is to stick to standard categories and popup menus.
Now, here's where things may get sticky. We began this section by saying that you could customize the value list that gives you your popup menu choices for Categories and Contents. But be aware that if you delete "Tuna" from your value list, although the text "Tuna" still exists in the Category field for the GF-URLs you categorized that way, you won't be able to Find for that category again, because it won't appear on any of your your popup menus for that field on any screen! Got it? See why customizing these value lists for popup menus is dangerous? OK, but what can you do about this if you want to change the list of categories?
The solution is actually very simple. If you want to delete any categories, first Find all GF-URLs that are categorized that way, choose a new category for the first of them, and Replace (see your FileMaker Pro manual) for all of them. Then you may delete that old, no longer used category item with impunity. Whew! Well, GURL Friday is a friendly database, but you still have to follow a few simple rules!
In case you have made a big mistake somehow, we have given you an out, but please don't feel you should rely on it. The Popup menus for Category and Content each include an "Other" choice, way down at the very bottom of the list. Selecting this choice when performing a Find will allow you to enter text by hand in a dialog box that will then be entered as your Find request. If the lost category was "Tunafish", and you enter "Tuna", FileMaker will find your desired Titles.
But, and this is a big but, as we said above, if the lost category was "Tuna", and you enter "Tunafish" or "Tina" manually as your Find request, GURL Friday won't find any GF-URLs. So please be careful, and think ahead, when you attempt to customize your value lists.
The contents of the original HTML page that each GF-URL represents may be ranked according to the defined values in these prearranged lists.
You can use these rankings to Find for types of Sites when you are exporting or surfing.
If you had not added a Comment in Netscape, add a Desciption now; it will be used as a description of the link on any HTML pages you export. See Exporting coded HTML GF-URLs below.
A Personal Comment will not show up on Hotlist pages, it is intended solely for your use in remembering the nature of the page you visited. Entering User Names and Passwords for specific sites
The information in the fields for Password and User Name may be excluded if you Copy this database.
Enter an Email address in its field.
This is one area where GURL Friday is not yet fully automated. Many Web sites have an email address as part of the page. This address is often introduced with words like "Send us your comments" or "Mail to:". If such text occurs, associated with a colored link, then click on the link. If your assumption was correct, a dialog box will appear in which you can compose your mail. Use your mouse to highlight the address that appears after the word "To:" Once this address is selected, copy it and then paste it into the EMail Address field in GURL Friday.
Now you may use GURL Friday to email to Web sites that have email capability!
Click a radio button to exclude GF-URLs from ever being exported or copied.
Click a radio button to mark a GF-URL as Slow Loading. Consult your FileMaker manual to learn how to "Omit" records from Find requests, and you can omit these slow-loading GF-URLs from any Hotlist or GURL Friday copy you make.
The text in this field, including HTML tagging, will be substituted for the regular Description when you build Hotlists. But if you leve this field empty, nothing will happen, and GURL Friday will use your regular Description when you build Hotlists.
the idea here is that GURL Friday now will have a Description to use in printed reports that is just text, with no tagging appearing in it, and a Description that does have HTML tagging. You may now fancy up your Hotlists any way you like by making words in the Description bold or italic, or embedding further URLs, making your Description a list, or any other way you can imagine.
There are two things you should keep in mind when tagging a Description. First, some Web browsers may not understand all of the coding that Netscape does.
Second, GURL Friday constructs your Hotlists as HTML Definition Lists, in order to provide you with a nicely formatted Hotlist. Netscape may be confused by improperly ordered tagging if you attempt to embed lists within lists. So experiment gently here.
Pop up either of these two menus, and highlight the tag you'd like to use in your HTML Description. Let go your mouse button, and you'll see that tag in the field. Immediately copy it, by typing Command-C, and then paste it in place in your HTML Description.
Click the Big Green G button and GURL Friday will open Netscape for you, and, if your SLIP/PPP or network internet connection is up and running, Netscape will go right to that page on the Web. Heck, if you're in too much of a hurry to roll your cursor to the clicker at the top of this screen, we've even put a Little Green G button next to each Title that will do the same thing! You may customize the size and placement of this layout, and GURL Friday will remember that setup, and open your Surfing layout in the same place the next time you click any Surfing button on any clicker.
If you are revisiting pages, and decide that you no longer want to have a page on the Revisit list, click the Revisited button. See Revisit Flagged Sites for information on the Revisit function.
Did you just surf to a new page that you want to have a GF-URL for? Use the Get URL button to grab its Page title and URL directly into GURL Friday!
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