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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Extensis Portfolio 6
« on: May 14, 2002, 07:07:40 PM »
Yes, I use Extensis Portfolio 6.
For me though, I can manipulate the exported data using Excel, Access or some other tool if required to place the data in a more import friendly format. Including the replacement of those non-printable characaters.
From page 128 of the Portfolio 6 User Guide:
This is probably getting ahead of things, but if the import utility was robust enough, you could probably sell it as an add-on module for 4Images. The combined solution could actually compete easily against the Extensis Portweb plugin as that requires the user to have their own Windows server. That just isn't affordable or practical for the vast majority of Portfolio users.
I think categories can be handled without too much effort if the "Check New Files" CP feature is used in conjunction with Portfolio's ability to "Collect" gallery images to a folder for web server upload. A gallery collection could easily be limited to a specific Portfolio category.
If I can be of any help at all, just let me know. As I'm sure you can tell by now, as an experienced programmer I can document issues pretty well. Although I don't know PHP (yet) I know enough about programming in C to get around inside the code.
I'll do whatever I can to assist! (And I'm still willing to hand over some cash to motivate you )
For me though, I can manipulate the exported data using Excel, Access or some other tool if required to place the data in a more import friendly format. Including the replacement of those non-printable characaters.
From page 128 of the Portfolio 6 User Guide:
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Therefore Portfolio follows the ASCII standard by using ASCII 11 as the vertical tab character. This character will be used to denote a linebreak within a field (such as a text block like the Description field). Portfolio also uses ASCII 29 as the Group Separator character. This character will be used to delimit values within a multi-valued field (such as the Keywords field). Some other databases that support multi-valued or multi-lined fields (such as FileMaker Pro) also support these standards.
This is probably getting ahead of things, but if the import utility was robust enough, you could probably sell it as an add-on module for 4Images. The combined solution could actually compete easily against the Extensis Portweb plugin as that requires the user to have their own Windows server. That just isn't affordable or practical for the vast majority of Portfolio users.
I think categories can be handled without too much effort if the "Check New Files" CP feature is used in conjunction with Portfolio's ability to "Collect" gallery images to a folder for web server upload. A gallery collection could easily be limited to a specific Portfolio category.
If I can be of any help at all, just let me know. As I'm sure you can tell by now, as an experienced programmer I can document issues pretty well. Although I don't know PHP (yet) I know enough about programming in C to get around inside the code.
I'll do whatever I can to assist! (And I'm still willing to hand over some cash to motivate you )