My work assignment of late has been developing an interactive PDF catalog of our products that my superior can distribute digitally and let potential customers browse without accessing the website.
We have an Excel file that lists all the details of our products - name, description, title, image, category, etc. I have used Data Merge to create this 300 page document rather than hand-copy each product's information to a single page.
Unfortunately I am now stuck - I have designed the catalog in such a way that I have an image that I want to make a button which, if the person wishes to purchase a product, will take them directly the the product page online where he or she can add it to the shopping cart. This is great, but I cannot seem to find a way to make the image button's link a variable as the rest of the page content. Links to each product page are included in the CSV file, but without a variable web link method, I would have to create the unique links individually, which kinda defeats the purpose of using Data Merge anyway.
So my question is this - is there any way to make a URL button (an image) have a web link function that can read from a CSV file and change each page like other imported content? I've asked in the Adobe Forums and the one answer I received was for using JavaScript, so I came here. If not, is there another way to automate the individual link process without setting it up on each generated page?
Thanks in advance,
Asher
I didn't test it, but I think you first have to define HyperlinkPageItemSources with the add()-method. This method accepts an image-object, because it is an pageItem. (http://jongware.mit.edu/idcs4js/pc_HyperlinkPageItemSources.html)
Then define HyperlinkURLDestinations with add()-method. The method accepts a URL as string. (http://jongware.mit.edu/idcs4js/pc_HyperlinkURLDestinations.html)
Define Hyperlinks with add()-method. First argument is a hyperlinkSource – for this case a HyperlinkPageItemSource – and second is a hyperlinkDestination – for this case a HyperlinkURLDestination. (http://jongware.mit.edu/idcs4js/pc_Hyperlinks.html)
For reading a csv-file and bringing to an array look here for example (function parseCSV()…): http://forums.adobe.com/message/3404908#3404908
Hope that helps a bit!
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I am making an on-line shop for selling magazines, and I need to show the image of the magazine. For that, I would like to show the same image that is shown in the website of the company that distributes the magazines.
For that, it would be easy with an absolute path, like this:
<img src="http://www.remotewebsite.com/image.jpg" />
But, it is not possible in my case, because the name of the image changes everytime there is a new magazine.
In Javascript, it is possible to get the path of an image with this code:
var strImage = document.getElementById('Image').src;
But, is it possible to use something similar to get the path of an image if it is in another HTML page?
Assuming that you know how to find the correct image in the magazine website's DOM (otherwise, forget it):
the magazine website must explicitly allow clients showing your website to fetch their content by enabling CORS
you fetch their HTML -> gets you a stream of text
parse it with DOMParser -> gets you a Document
using your knowledge or their layout (or good heuristics, if you're feeling lucky), use regular DOM navigation to find the image and get its src attribute
I'm not going to detail any of those steps (there are already lots of SO answers around), especially since you haven't described a specific issue you may have with the technical part.
You can, but it is inefficient. You would have to do a request to load all the HTML of that other page and then in that HTML find the image you are looking for.
It can be achieved (using XMLHttpRequest or fetch), but I would maybe try to find a more efficient way.
What you are asking for is technically possible, and other answers have already gone into the details about how you could accomplish this.
What I'd like to go over in this answer is how you probably should architect this given the requirements that you described. Keep in mind that what I am describing is one way to do this, there are certainly other correct methods as well.
Create a database on the server where your app will live. A simple MySQL DB will work, but you could use anything. Create a table called magazine, with a column url. Your code would pull the url from this DB. Whenever the magazine URL changes, just update the DB and the code itself won't need to be changed.
Your front-end code needs some sort of way to access the DB. One possible solution is a REST API. This code would query the DB for the latest values (in your case magazine URLs), and make them accessible to your web page. This could be done in a myriad of different languages/frameworks, here's a good tutorial on doing something like this in Node.js and express (which is what I'd personally use).
Finally, your front-end code needs to call your REST API to get the updated URLs. This needs to be done with some kind of JavaScript based language. jQuery would make this really easy, something like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
$.Get("http://uri_to_your_rest_api", function(data) {
$("#myImage").attr("scr", data.url);
}
});
Assuming you had HTML like this:
<img id="myImage" src="">
And there you go - You have a webpage that pulls the image sources dynamically from your database.
Now if you're just dipping your toes into web development, this may seem a bit overwhelming. But I promise you, in the long run it'll be easier then trying to parse code from an HTML page :)
I've started using contentful, created a few entries and now I want to make a simple dynamic page with subpages.
Basically, a portfolio. What i want to have there - index page with links to inner portfolio pages. I've got a JSON with entries each of them containing title, content, slug, id, etc.
How do i make them have each of their page with url? Template is going to be the same. So for example the user comes to url.com/someurl and he sees the page for some specific item in entries.
My gut is telling me that usually controller does this kind of job. Should i try using some frameworks like angularjs?
You can have a look at this simple example app I've been working on, using just plain JS. It's not entirely finished but showcases the very basic principles of using Contentful to build a frontend only app with the contentful.js SDK: https://github.com/contentful/product-catalogue-js
Give that you added an angularjs tag I'm assuming you could also be interested in this: https://github.com/jvandemo/angular-contentful
Essentially you should just build an app as any other, using whatever framework (or not) you want, but get the data from Contentful instead of an AJAX endpoint or any other data library.
What you might want to think of as well is how you structure your Entries and Content Types in Contentful. A good strategy is to have some kind of Entry that corresponds to a page (for instance, in that example app there are Products and there are individual pages for each Product), and then have related Entries you can link to it (like say, Blog Posts and Images).
I'm quite new to SharePoint (about 1 week into it actually) and I'm attempting to mirror certain functionality that my company has with other products. Currently I'm working on how to duplicate the tasking environment in Box.com. Essentially it's just an email link that goes to a webpage where users can view an image and comments related to that image side by side.
I can dynamically load the image based on url parameters using just Javascript so that part is not a problem. As far as the comments part goes I've been trying to use a Noteboard WebPart, and then my desire is to have the "Url for Note" property to change dependent on the same URL parameter. I've looked over the Javascript Object Model and Class Library on MSDN but the hierarchy seems to stop at WebPart so I'm not finding anything that will allow me to update the Url for Note property.
I've read comments saying that there's a lot of exploration involved with this so I've tried the following:
-loading the javascript files into VisualStudio to use intellisense for looking up functions and properties in the SP.js files.
-console.log() on: WebPartDefinitionCollection, WebPartDefinition, WebPart, and methods .get_objectData(), get_properties() on all the previous
-embedding script in the "Builder" on the Url for Note property (where it says "click to use Builder" - I'm still not sure what more this offers than just a bigger textbox to put in the URL path)
I'm certain I've missed something obvious here but am gaining information very slowly now that I've exhausted the usual suspects. I very much appreciate any more resources or information anyone has and am willing to accept that I may be approaching this incorrectly if someone has accomplished this before.
Normally I'd keep going through whatever info I could find but I'm currently on a trial period and start school back up again soon so I won't have as much time with it. Apologies if this seems impatient, I'm just not sure where else to look at the moment.
Did you check out the API libraries like SPServices or SharepointPlus? They could help you doing what you want...
For example with SharepointPlus you could:
Create a Sharepoint List with a "Note" column and whatever you need to record
When the user goes to the page with the image you just show a TEXTAREA input with a SAVE button
When the user hits the SAVE button it will save the Note to the related list using $SP().list("Your list").add()
And you can easily retrieve the information (to show them to the user if he goes back to the page) with $SP().list("Your list").get()
If I understood your problem, that way it may be easier for you to deal with a customized page :-)
Lets say I have this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var p = document.getElementById('cls');
p.firstChild.nodeValue = 'Some interesting information';
</script>
<div id="cls"> </div>
So, google robots will index text Some interesting information or not?
Thanks!
AFAIK, google robot will now indexing AJAX and Javascript stuff.For reference please follow:
http://www.submitshop.com/2011/11/03/google-bot-now-indexing-ajax-javascript
Get google to index links from javascript generated content
Update
SearchEngine watch has recently mentioned that Google bot has been improvised to read JavaScript, to quote exactly
it can now read and understand certain dynamic comments implemented
through AJAX and JavaScript. This includes Facebook comments left
through services like the Facebook social plugin.
We've had a need to hide pieces of information on pages from GoogleBot. As the information wasn't extremely sensitive, we've used document.write()-s to avoid searchbots indexing content in question.
Later in 2011 Q3 I've found that GoogleBot did index the scripted content, so I'm pretty sure now that Google is indexing much more than just fetching URLs from content, even though it's really not documented anywhere deeply.
Google doesn't index the JavaScript code or the generated content. You will only see it in the cache because the cached page consists of the complete file including the JavaScript code and your browser renders it. Google does scan JavaScript for URLs to crawl, so if the code is pulling content from an external file via Ajax, etc., there's a chance that the external file will also be indexed, but separate from the parent page. If you want the content to be indexed, it's got to be in plain HTML. Good luck!
I'm putting together a simple website for our department. I'd like to include one of the references that we use often on the main page, a word document that contains a priority list for outstanding work. This document is generated by another department and located on a shared drive. The info is not in a table, but uses a fairly consisten format for displaying info.
Ex: (the info is actually formatted like this)
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Item Title
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Tracker#: 12345-0012 Due; 01/01/12
Description...
My ultimate goal is to have a table on the main page that contains the various items in the priority list. I would like a mechanism that automatically checks the word docs about once an hour, parses the document, generates a table from the info in the doc, and updates the main page accordingly.
I've never done anything like this and have no idea where to start or if what I'm asking is even possible. I'm not in IT and do not have the ability to use ASP or PHP at the moment. So I'd like to avoid server-side scripting if possible, but I may be able to work something out if absolutely necessary.
Thanks
I know how to do this in java.. you can use the docx4j library.. Without that it would be difficult. Can't the team that create the doc store the file as a flat file as well maybe?
One possible solution is to save document as html (using automation - create Word.Application object, call Open, SaveAs) and serve it directly or inside frame.