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Export to HTML / ... with Cover Pictures
I want to export my library to HTML / PHP / letmethinkofsomethingelse, including my pictures.
Both Delicious exporter and deliciweb are discontinued.
is there a way to export with pictures?
Both Delicious exporter and deliciweb are discontinued.
is there a way to export with pictures?
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Though we'd love to make a more robust publishing feature, our tiny company must prioritize these sorts of things. With one engineer, it's important that we put our focus on making all the offered features work *perfectly* before embarking upon new ones (adding new features to software is actually quite terrifying, as it opens up possibilities for new bugs, and can't easily be removed once it's added).
Delicious Library 2 is, for the most part, targeted to consumer-level users. We're always striving to achieve the perfect balance of features, while keeping the software basic and simple enough for everyone to use. For the web and scripting savvy, we allow the flexibility of making your own templates (which, I have to add, is not something we have documentation or instructions for), or writing your own magic scripts to make the program do things it never dreamt of doing.
I noted previously that a way of getting the pictures to export out was to use the publish to a folder feature-- perhaps the combination of this and an excel export is the best way to patch together a more comprehensive, CSS-ed out website?
We do consider all the feature requests that come through, but I just want to give realistic expectations based on the size and goals of our company. I appreciate when people have feedback about what could make our product better, and hope that everyone continues to voice their opinion about Delicious Library!
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Inappropriate?Short of upgrading to DL2? Not sure...
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Inappropriate?DL2 is not an option, since i already own it.
i'm just not happy with the given export option. I was a user of DVD Profiler under Windows. Their Export was a bit clearer in the arrangement.
I don't like the idea with multiple pages.
Their Export looked like this:
http://www.invelos.com/dvdcollection....
I’m still unsatisfied
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Inappropriate?Gotcha.
...and I think it is a fact established in several other threads that the present format options suck ass... and WS has noted that getting new publishing templates is something he is "working on". At the risk of "piling on" I might suggest noting your displeasure there as well, so that they continue to be nudged by them.
I have heard him be asked directly for a simple layout (like you have) or just to give the option within the existing format to do a simple search, jump to titles beginning with specific letters, and even to jump to a specific page... so TPTB *have* heard our frustration... how good the company *really* is I guess will be reflected in how well they actually listen and respond.
(I was tripped up because you were asking about applications that were DL1.x specific and assumed that you were still using the older product.)
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Inappropriate?The only way we have of saving the library with the pictures and everything is to publish to a folder. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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Inappropriate?I explicitly bought Delicious Library for the publish-to-web-feature. I should have tested it first - it's not useful at all!
What about a decent list view? Custom themes? Anything _close_ to the possiblity to add it to an own social/website?
The way it is right now, it's your way or the highway. I get to choose between bad and very bad layout. Shiny, yes. 'Designed', yes. Web 2.0 or anything like it? Nada. And, what's worse: any changes I do myself WILL be overwritten on next publish. And I don't intend to do XSLT transformations on an export myself.
Go read "The Zen of CSS design", and have a look at how www.csszengarden.com is done - add something like that, and your customers (including me) will love you immediately, with much less than a man-week to implement it on your end, based on your current publish system.
Oh, and while you're at it: please add publishing methods like SFTP / SCP / WebDAV publishing. FTP is insecure, and FTPS rather exotic at hosters.
Thanks for the attention :)
I’m quite frustrated
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Inappropriate?berlincount- People are able to make their own templates, but we don't have a lot of flexibility as far as it goes on the consumer end of things. We aren't so much web people as we are cocoa people, but there is a possibility that we will have different options when DL3 comes out...
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Inappropriate?Im also on the brink of using DL's data as the basis for a custom webpage, but both export formats (publish to website and export to other formats) omit certain information. Publishing to a website includes just a few fields and lacks the -to me- important ISBN field. Exporting to any format lacks the images.
The ideal situation would be if DL publishes the website with some more options, like choosing which fields you need. Web-savvy users will then be able to tweak the CSS to their wishes. Another solution is to let the Export command be able to generate a folder with images (similar to the Publish website) and put a name field (of the images) in the exported data. Most Excel-savvy users will be able to shape this exported data to fit their needs. -
Inappropriate?Though we'd love to make a more robust publishing feature, our tiny company must prioritize these sorts of things. With one engineer, it's important that we put our focus on making all the offered features work *perfectly* before embarking upon new ones (adding new features to software is actually quite terrifying, as it opens up possibilities for new bugs, and can't easily be removed once it's added).
Delicious Library 2 is, for the most part, targeted to consumer-level users. We're always striving to achieve the perfect balance of features, while keeping the software basic and simple enough for everyone to use. For the web and scripting savvy, we allow the flexibility of making your own templates (which, I have to add, is not something we have documentation or instructions for), or writing your own magic scripts to make the program do things it never dreamt of doing.
I noted previously that a way of getting the pictures to export out was to use the publish to a folder feature-- perhaps the combination of this and an excel export is the best way to patch together a more comprehensive, CSS-ed out website?
We do consider all the feature requests that come through, but I just want to give realistic expectations based on the size and goals of our company. I appreciate when people have feedback about what could make our product better, and hope that everyone continues to voice their opinion about Delicious Library!
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I've tried using the images-folder, and of course I can tweak my Excel to use the images. But the names of the images are not given in the output fields, so I'd need to relate all my images to the correct book by hand. I don't ask you to move mountains, but I do plea for just an extra field here and there in the output. No rocket science, since it's already available in DL's internal database. -
I've tried using the images-folder, and of course I can tweak my Excel to use the images. But the names of the images are not given in the output fields, so I'd need to relate all my images to the correct book by hand. I don't ask you to move mountains, but I do plea for just an extra field here and there in the output. No rocket science, since it's already available in DL's internal database.
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Inappropriate?Petertje: If you send an email over to "support [at] delicious-monster [dot] com" referencing this forum thread, and then post the case # on here, I can move it into our feature requests folder. It's mostly out of my hands after that, since I'm not the decision maker around here =)
I’m on your side
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It's official:
case number 167610.
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