Re: Any Newsletters out there

This WebDNA talk-list message is from

1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 19219
interpreted = N
texte = >My next project with webCatalog is to build a newsletter system. My >needs are for a newsletter dynamically built with 11-15 stories each >contributed by a different author. I will be archiving all of the old >stories to create virtual back issues. > >Has anyone done this type of thing without trouble. I am wondering about >potential problems I might have with a database that would have some >fairly large text fields. > >I am wondering if I would be better off keeping the actual stories within >a webcat database or if I would be better off saving each story as a file >that could be included and then simply keeping track of the files with a >webcat database?We accomplished this by the creation of two databases. One database holds the stories/articles for the editors to create and edit. Using forms they can then publish the story. When the story is published we use a [writefile] to create the article pages and an [append] to what I call a table of contents database. This database holds the title, file location, abstract, search keywords etc. So the normal web surfer would be working with this smaller TOC database. Mark----------------------------------------------------------- Mark Anderson marka@fabian.com Director of Operations and IS http://www.fabian.com/ Fabian Investment Resources (714) 536-1931 x259 AIM# MacMoov ----------------------------------------------------------- Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Subject: Any Newsletters out there (Allen Booth 1998)
  2. Re: Any Newsletters out there (Mark Anderson 1998)
  3. Any Newsletters out there (Dan Tryon 1998)
>My next project with webCatalog is to build a newsletter system. My >needs are for a newsletter dynamically built with 11-15 stories each >contributed by a different author. I will be archiving all of the old >stories to create virtual back issues. > >Has anyone done this type of thing without trouble. I am wondering about >potential problems I might have with a database that would have some >fairly large text fields. > >I am wondering if I would be better off keeping the actual stories within >a webcat database or if I would be better off saving each story as a file >that could be included and then simply keeping track of the files with a >webcat database?We accomplished this by the creation of two databases. One database holds the stories/articles for the editors to create and edit. Using forms they can then publish the story. When the story is published we use a [writefile] to create the article pages and an [append] to what I call a table of contents database. This database holds the title, file location, abstract, search keywords etc. So the normal web surfer would be working with this smaller TOC database. Mark----------------------------------------------------------- Mark Anderson marka@fabian.com Director of Operations and IS http://www.fabian.com/ Fabian Investment Resources (714) 536-1931 x259 AIM# MacMoov ----------------------------------------------------------- Mark Anderson

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