Outputting records in HTML format, ready for viewing on your Web page, is simply a matter of:

• going to the Output form

• selecting an output format that has Web or HTML specified as the destination or selecting Web/HTML as the alternate destination on the output form.

• select a catalogue, stock view, customer distribution list, or view on the customers form

• press the Proceed button

For an overview of outputting your records see OutputtingIDH_OpMain

When outputting a catalogue to a HTML/Web destination you will be prompted to confirm the selection, as with any output, but in addition catalogues can be published (or republished, if already published) and output to multiple files, one per section.

If you specify the multiple files option when outputting to a Web/HTML destination, InfoMine produces one file per section, plus an index file for navigation. In this case you are prompted for a directory in which to store the files which does not have to already exist. To produce files ready to upload to your Web site you should have a mirror of you Web site's directory structure set up on your local machine (See recommended directory Structure for handling InfoMine catalogues on Web sites).

When prompted with the file selection dialog, navigate to this directory structure and, in the filename field, enter catname\tmp, where catname, a name derived from your catalogue's name, is the name of the directory where the files will be stored (make sure to enter tmp as well or the files wil be stored in the next directory up).

InfoMine produces one file per catalogue section and a navigation/index file called hom.htm.

Each of these file represents a single Web page that includes

• the page background, tiled with the background image you specifed in setup

• the background colour specified by you

• your standard header with business name and logos

• two standard preamble text sections that appears before the catalogue records

• the records formatted as specified by the output format and the Web setup,

• a standard postamble text section immediately following the records

• navigation links to hom.htm and homepage**

(set up using the User Options command Main Switchboard)

All it now requires to display the catalogue on your web site is to

• ftp (use binary mode) the contents of the directory to a separate directory (named after your catalogue's name) directly under your public_html directory.**

• put in a link to hom.htm that users can click on. This link can be in your homepage (index.html) file or in a catalogs linking file under public_html (e.g catalogs.htm).

(**Note: hom.htm and the section files from a single catalogue must be located in a subdirectory one level below the public_html directory, to satisfy hyperlinks within hom.htm and within each section file to your homepage(index.html) and to a contacts or overview file.

See the recommended directory Structure for InfoMine catalogues on Web sites.

Using this strategy you can upload as many catalogues as you wish, each in their separate directory, without file naming conflicts. Most likely each catalogue will produce the same file names. Storing them under unique directory names will avoid clashes.