WebPlus X5: Workarounds

[mjh]

Please post links in this thread to known solutions - workarounds - to quirks you've discovered. A brief summary would also be helpful

Thanks

[mjh]

http://forums.serif.com/showthread.php?t=92195

[mjh]

X4 forms with file browser control do not display correctly in X5.

Solution by Martin Taylor is here
http://forums.serif.com/showpost.php...3&postcount=34

[mjh]

Yes, ftp accounts from X4 are available in X5

http://forums.serif.com/showthread.p...t=ftp+accounts

[mjh]

Hyerplink issues in tables

http://forums.serif.com/showthread.php?t=92019

http://forums.serif.com/showpost.php...3&postcount=17

[mjh]

Hi

The datasource for the paypal e-commerce database merge only accepts *.sdb or *.csv files.

http://forums.serif.com/showthread.php?t=92492

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Copy text to spell-check and add words in a new site. Added words will then be available on reloading old sites.

Expanded verion of the spell-check workaround:


http://forums.serif.com/showpost.php...9&postcount=15

Move the text frame to a new site and check it there. There you can add words to the dictionary.
Select all text frames on the page (Ctrl Shift A or Ctrl Double-click)
Cut (Ctrl X)
Switch to a blank new site (Ctrl N)
Paste in Place (Ctrl Alter V)
Run Spell-check (F7), adding the words to the dictionary
Select all (Ctrl A)
Cut (Ctrl X)
Close the unwanted new site
Paste in Place (Ctrl Shift V).

[mjh]

How to integrate X4 templates in X5


Re: X4 Templates

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Hi all,

The behaviour of the Template Pack installations is such that it will install appropriate links between the files and the available versions of software at install time.

Yes, these packages will allow for the templates to appear within WebPlus X5, but only if the Template Packs are installed after the software.

If you are all ready enjoying the Template Packs with WebPlus X4 and have since also installed WebPlus X5, you need to uninstall and reinstall the Template Packs - the templates will appear in both program's template browser as a result of detecting both on the system.
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Gareth Morris
Production Supervisor

[cliffm]

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I've been reading that (and it's true), that you cannot apply an 'action' to 'text' as with 'object's, 'buttons', & 'pictures'. So...

I, like many of you, would like to just move the mouse over some text and have a pop-up panel with some text (or anything else we desire to show.

Well after racking my brains, this is the only solution I can come up with..... if you have other/better solutions to this, I would love to know what you've come up with.

http://sampletestwebsite.com/popup%2...llover%20text/

Thanks
Cliff

[cliffm]

Thanks for this one mjh. I was wondering why my older 'purchased' templates weren't showing up in X5....

Cliff

[mjh]

Originally Posted by clumein2@gmail.com .. I've been reading that (and it's true), that you cannot apply an 'action' to 'text' as with 'object's, 'buttons', & 'pictures'. So... I, like many of you, would like to just move the mouse over some text and have a pop-up panel with some text (or anything else we desire to show. Well after racking my brains, this is the only solution I can come up with..... if you have other/better solutions to this, I would love to know what you've come up with. http://sampletestwebsite.com/popup%2...llover%20text/ Thanks Cliff

Thanks for this one, Cliff.

[RichardS]

http://forums.serif.com/showthread.php?t=92652

At present, any double quotes typed into the title attributes of eg. images will cause the title to be truncated when displayed in a web browser.

Temporary workaround: Use single quotes instead of double quotes.

[mjh]

Lightboxes showing same picture and title for different images on the page


http://forums.serif.com/showthread.p...912#post653912

[AlfredP]

Originally Posted by mjh http://forums.serif.com/showthread.php?t=92195

As somebody famous once said:

Originally Posted by mjh A brief summary would also be helpful

Alfred

[mjh]

http://forums.serif.com/showpost.php...69&postcount=2
The ability to name and save multiple custom navigations trees was removed from X5. It was causing customers more problems than it was solving.

If you need to reuse a custom navigation tree within your document, you can copy and paste the existing navigation bar and change the style and appearance.

Hope this helps
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Andrew Woodhouse
Senior Testing Engineer
Serif (Europe) Ltd.

[annvan]

I have reverted back to WebPlus X4 as X5 totally messed up my site and caused way too many problems. My site is back as it should be and I will not be using X5 until the many issues/bugs have been fixed.

[mjh]

http://forums.serif.com/showpost.php...11&postcount=4

Form error with external php script

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The other way is in Action select "A remote script" type into the box the name of the script - ffprocess.php if it is located in a folder - foldername/ffprocess.php and then add the file using File Manager. You can also create the folder there if required.
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Nigel

[mjh]

Re: Accessing my web hosting ...
In whatever browser you want to use, log in here:
https://www.serif.com/community/login.asp

Click the Link My Hosting link on the right hand side (if you haven't already linked your account)

Enter your Serif Web Resources account details

Now use the Manage My Hosting link to see your hosting account(s) and click the Manage Email link under your hosting account to either access webmail or see the details needed to set up an email program to access your email.
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Sarah Woodhouse
QA Manager

[Tom.]

The 'Transparent Background' option does not appear to be working correctly in X5.

For a workaround, see this post :-

http://forums.serif.com/showthread.p...282#post655282

[Chris9]

Find and Replace not working.

Workaround:

Read through all the text on every page carefully, and replace the words you need to change manually.



(I'm in that sort of mood)

Chris - "hey, it's nearly the weekend" - 9

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Originally Posted by Bhikkhu Pesala In fact, there's a better work-around — open WritePlus and then Find and Replace will work (for all stories). I suspect that this issue is related to the Spell-check not working issue, and hopefully fixing that will also fix this. Has it been reported yet? I agree, though, something like this would put me in that kind of mood. Looking forward to the next patch.

I didn't want to clutter this thread any more than I already have, so I'll put my reply (and thanks) to Bhikkhu Pesala here.

I didn't know what WritePlus was so I went a-huntin'. It's here for anyone else who needs it:

Right click any text frame > Edit Story > Edit > Find & Replace

Once you're in here, you can edit all instances throughout the site as Bhikkhu says.

Thanks for that Bhikkhu.