saving multipul page upon a click of a button

J

Jasonc

I have agenda item on the webpage and when a link is clicked it opens up a
save as box to save ALL agenda item to the computer from the website.

how do I make and modify a save as box so it can save multiple pages ?

thanks

J
 
J

Jim Buyens

-----Original Message-----
I have agenda item on the webpage and when a link is
clicked it opens up a save as box to save ALL agenda
item to the computer from the website.

how do I make and modify a save as box so it can save
multiple pages ?
Click to expand...

What are these agenda items? Records in a database? Items
in a SharePoint List? Items in a SharePoint document
library? Ordinary Web pages?

What do you want to download them as? A text file? A
comma-separated-values file? Something else?

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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J

Jasonc

we hold many meetings and members only want certain files, i want to save
them time in allowing them to save just the files they want, i want to make
it easy for them. and i do not want to have them right click and save as,
cos sometimes they want all of the files and they would have to do this to
each one,

sometime they might be up to 100 files to get and they might only want 20 of
them, and not everyone will have the same ones. so NO i can not put them
all in a zip file, as they can NOT use these files. and they will never be
able to.

i think this is a better discription of what i am after.......

i have many files on the website and want to set up a page for them to
select the files they want by checked boxes and then for them to click the
last button which would be a DOWNLOAD button that would open a SAVE AS box
asking for a location on the pc where they are to be save to, and these
file would then be copiewd from the website to the location they have
selected.

batch saving, the files they have selected.

how can this be done???

what ever way it can be done let me know.

thanks

J
 
J

Jim Buyens

A Web browser simply can't do this. It can only download one file at a
time, and it displays a File Download dialog box for each one.

To get the kind of features you describe, you'd need to launch a
Windows program that retrieved the multiple files. This could be an
ActiveX control that appears within your page or a stand-alone
program. I don't know of any such programs, but they probably exist.
Browse your favorite search engine and search for "batch download" or
"download manager".

Again, the simplest solution is to set up an FTP site. That way, your
members can view all the folder and filename in Windows Explorer, and
download the one they way simply by dragging and dropping them.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
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J

Jasonc

thank you again, but i wish it was as simple as that. if i tried and i can
not explain you would see why it can not be done like that.

regards

J
 
J

Jim Buyens

Jasonc said:
thank you again, but i wish it was as simple as that. if i tried and i can
not explain you would see why it can not be done like that.
Click to expand...

Nevertheless, what you describe cannot easily be done.

If I knew an easy way to do it, I would certainly tell you.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
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|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
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