This folder contains a kit with an AppleScript, templates and a database that show how a FAQ (list of frequently asked questions) or lists of information with a similar structure can be maintained and edited in a FileMaker Pro database, and published on the web using PageSpinner. Registered users are free to use and modify the sample database and templates to publish their FAQ's or lists of information with a similar structure. FAQ-Spinner requires FileMaker Pro from Claris.
To use this kit you are required to know some basics on how to use AppleScript and the Script editor.
You can learn more about how modify the AppleScripts and to publish data from databases in the file "database_publishing.html", located inside the AppleScript Documentation folder.
Please make a backup copy of this folder before you start modifying it.
It is always great to have a backup copy around if something goes wrong...
If you are using WorldScript with double-byte character input you should edit the template files and use the menu File : Set Filing Options... to set the file to be saved in the format Mac TEXT.
To publish web pages from the FileMaker Pro database:
- launch PageSpinner
- open the database named "FAQ-Spinner Data" with FileMaker Pro.
- open the AppleScript "FAQ-Spinner Script" with Script Editor and run the script.
