Thanks for your interest in HexWeb XT. This manual describes HexWeb® Index Pro, a utility included with HexWeb XT that creates tables of contents from any HTML pages you have exported with HexWeb XT.

How to get started...

1. Once you have decompressed the "HexWeb XT.sea" file on your hard disk, you will find the HexWeb Index program in the HexWeb Index Pro folder.

2. Be sure that you have the "Gifs" folder inside the "Archive" folder, which is your Root folder for this example. ("Archive" is the folder into which you have exported your HTML files from XPress or CopyDesk). In the "GIFs" folder, there are the category GIFs for the table of contents.

NOTE:If you change the category names in HexWeb XT, please be sure to make additional GIF files with the same name as the new category, and put them into the "GIFs" folder also.

3. Start HexWeb Index Pro with a doubleclick or from QuarkXPress or CopyDesk with the menu command "Create Table of Content". This is the startup dialog:

 

4. After the program starts, use the following dialog to select the issue (e.g. 01) folder. (HexWeb Index is now set up to create a table of contents HTML file from the articles in issue 01 of 1997.) 

5. After you have selected the "01" folder you might, depending on your Preference Settings, see this dialog, where you should choose the Issue option.

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Now HexWeb Index will analyze the HTML files in the selected issue folder, creating a table of contents in Frames sorted by category.

In this palette you see a preview of the index file. Here you have the possibility to sort the articles and categories. At this point you can also select the external headers and footers for the index file. The LinkCheck feature is explained in a section of its own in this manual.

Here is the HexWeb® Index file in Frames created from your Web server structure and exported HTML files in 10 seconds!

This is what happens:

In QuarkXPress or CopyDesk, in the HexWeb Export dialog box, you can define the headline and the sub-headline for the table of contents. Select the desired headline text with the text tool and click the headline or sub-headline button. They will automatically be added to the text fields in the palette.

The headline will be marked up in the table of contents as a hyperlink to the article; the sub-headline will be added under it as text.You can also define the year, issue and category for the article you are going to export within QuarkXPress or CopyDesk. HexWeb will create a folder structure based on these settings directly to your Web server.

This is the year folder created with HexWeb XT, it should be located in your main path folder. In this exercise it will be in the Archive folder:

 

The issues of your magazine or newspaper are in the year folder in these folders: 

In every issue folder there are the categories or departments, which you also created using HexWeb XT. Please note that HexWeb XT shortens the file names to 8 characters to have full transparency on the Web with all platforms. Special characters like spaces, dots, etc. are also removed.

The index.html file and other related files are automatically created by HexWeb Index, and has all the headlines, subheadlines and hyperlinks to every article specified using HexWeb XT.

 

How to use the new Special f/x technology

HexWeb Index Pro is extensible through the new Special f/x technology. This means, that the output of HexWeb Index is not limited to HTML, even fly-through formats such as Hotsauce can be created with HexWeb Index.

The Special f/x modules are located inside HexWeb Index Pro folder, inside Special f/x folder.

To use Special f/x, just select the third popup from the HexWeb Index Preview list to point an available module. After selecting, just create an index. Please note, that each f/x module creates its own files inside the actual issue folder. To see which f/x modules are available, check the Special f/x page on HexMac Web server regularly.

The next section will explain about the preferences.