I work at a small daily newspaper and we are currently redesigning our website. Part of the redesign will be how the information is preped and put on the web.
My question is this: Is there a way that I can write an Applescript that takes the reporter’s story (Xpress file) when dropped in a certain folder and converts the story to an html file? Then I would like it to stay in that folder until a given time and then move it to the internet server.
I’m sorry if my question is elementary, but I have never used Applescript for anything before and am clueless as to it’s capablities.
Thanx for your help.
: My question is this: Is there a way that I can write an
: Applescript that takes the reporter’s story (Xpress
: file) when dropped in a certain folder and converts
: the story to an html file? Then I would like it to
: stay in that folder until a given time and then move
: it to the internet server.
Yes, given you can write code that can convert XPress to HTML. (I have never used XPress.) Ray could answer this ? What you’d need to do is write a script that would convert the files when placed in the closed folder. Attach that script to the folder. (You must have MacOS 8.5 or newer I believe.) You could use iDo Script Scheduler or just write another script that checks the time to trigger yet another script to upload the page to the web. These scripts will be mostly simple and easy to implement.
: I’m sorry if my question is elementary, but I have never
: used Applescript for anything before and am clueless
: as to it’s capablities.
We are all clueless when we first start.
: Thanx for your help.