Ive had a look at the tutorials, and see Ive covered the things I wanted to say, Toby (and other members, please give this a go)
Tutorial GA007-6(63) (associated with program GA007)
This tutorial will take you through the steps to create a reference to a document on your local drive. The document can be a number of things e.g. HTML documents, WORD documents, jpg files or GIF files etc .
When you have completed this tutorial, run Tutorial No 64 to see how to display documents you set references to in the technique explained in this tutorial.
MORE INFO:
WHY YOU SHOULD USE LOCAL HTML DOCUMENTS.
You can easily create HTML documents within WORD. Type up a new document or open an existing WORD document, and click on "File > Save As" and change the "Save as Type" field to "Web Page (*.htm, *.html)". Simple!!
The advantages are enormous! HTML documents are rapidly displayed within Ideas Genie. References to HTML documents requires very little disk space within Ideas Genie, much less than a reference to a word document. .You can of course merge Photos and Text within an HTML document (as in WORD).
This tutorial will show you how to enter documents into the big memo field (text region) in screen GA007S11.
Documents such as Word documents, local HTML pages, pdf files, images of any type, etc - all are permissable.
Once you have the documents appearing in the memo field, then do the tutorial:
GA007- 7(64)
The result - you can link to any document on your own computer.
The Articles program acts as an index to your documents.
Other members:
Please give this a go, and let me know if there are questions.
OK, next thing to explain.
In old fashioned filing systems you had a big cabinet and an indexing system.
Yoiu had to think carefully about the topic of any document you had to file away.
If a document had multiple topic content, that casued problems. How ofter have you looked up an item in a filing system only to find you filed it under a different topic?
GA007 solves that problem.
You can "file" your Articles under as many topics as you wish.
First, you create Topics by running the program
Topics for articles -GA021 under the File tab on the menu
Add a new topic
Then add a few sub topics for that topic (You must have sub topics for this to work)
Once you have created a few topics, start GA007.
Find an article youve created previously.
Double click and you get to screen GA007S02
You'll see 3 panes.
The one we are focusing on is on the right
Categories or Topics in this article.
Click
Work with this list under the pane
Screen GA007S06 appears
Click on the pop-up, top left corner of the screen and select the new topic you added in GA021 above
The sub topics appear in the list with the caption
Select from this list on the left.
Double click on one of the sub topics.
Note how it now appears in the list with the caption :
Selected for this articleRepeat this as necessary if you wish to "file" this article under any other topics.
There is no limit!
Click
DoneScreen GA007S02 reappears
Note how your "filing" Topics are listed in the
Categories or Topics in this article list
Click
DoneInitial screen re-appears.
Now to "retrieve" our document from our "filing system"
Click the
Topic pop-up and select your new Topic
Click
Go button
Your document appears in the list along with other in the same Topic.
If you build up a large list of items:
Click the
Topic pop-up and select your new Topic
Click the
Sub Topic pop-up and select your new Sub Topic
Click
Go button
Id very much like to hear feedback from all members about this.