Assuming you have selected View>Expand Detail, you can find the HUD area to the right of the detail view.

The ‘Activate Widget’ button is the small, circled plus symbol at the top right of this area.

Andy, morning. Well i have worked out where the plus symbol is and follow along with what it is doing but for the life of me can not work out how to tell the widget where my FTP program is

Dayne.

You shouldn’t need to. What happens when you just click the ‘Connect’ link?

As long as the form attached to the Widget is completely filled in with the appropriate FTP details, when you click the ‘Connect’ link whatever the default program that is handling the FTP protocol on your machine is, should kick into life.

It’s based on the same premise that when you click a web page bookmark, the default browser on your machine will handle it.

If you need to change the program that is set to handle the FTP protocol, the best way I’ve found is the third party preference pane More Internet.

HTH

himmmmm dont have a connect link, the following link will show you some screen grabs for review, you may be able to point out what im missing. Your Notes Widget works fine, first time brillant.
http://www.flyinglizard.co.nz/clients/ftpwidget_screengrabs.sitx

Hi Dayne

The problem is the way you have named the form: it has to be called ‘FTP Login’, rather than ‘FTP login details’, as the widget keys on the exact name to find the data.

You can either re-name your form so it has that exact name (case is also important), or edit the Widget file in a text editor so that it keys on the name you have chosen.

To do that, right click on the file ‘FTPLogin.dlwkt’ and ‘Show Package Contents’, then edit the file ‘Template.html’, changing line 28 to whatever value you want to use for your form name. You will probably need to restart Daylite for the change to take effect.

HTH

Sweet all works now, cheers for the paitence. Small mind seizure there LOL. Hey question you dont know where i can find out a reference sheet/s of all the fields and there code names for daylite, i have been trying to make alot of template forms, layouts for reporting purposes and its a bit painful having to test each entry out in the dynamic text fields to find the right one. i have asked MC and i really dont think they know as this was the last email i recieved:
"If you are looking for more information on Daylite's reporting engine,
please note that there are several training movies available under 'Reports' from the following movies page:
http://www.marketcircle.com/help/movies.html
Note that more documentation on Reports should become available in the future.
We are not able to provide a fixed timeframe on when this would be.
Also, for information on Forms, please read pages 48, 75 and 76 of the Daylite 3 Manual.
You can download the manual from the following link:
http://www.marketcircle.com/help/manual.html
If you require any other information, please let us know."
The info on the manual is fine and for basic layout stuff, and the line: Note that more documentation on Reports should become available in the future. We are not able to provide a fixed timeframe on when this would be. Does not really help. I need to make things like sales/opportunities reporting to a much greater detail level, also things like call reports etc. And knowing exactly what MC have called the fields would be grand. Any comment would be good.

Dayne

Glad you’ve got it working.

Try having a look at the Daylite Developer Kit for more information on data structure, field names, etc.

Reports are a bit of a black art, but there are a fair few people on this forum that have figured a lot of it out, and will happily help out if you get stuck.

HTH

Hi Andy,

Having finally (and its all my fault) discovered how to use the FTP widget, I have found them when I update one of my organisations (businesses to you and me), that if I then go into another businesses and then come back the FTP widget isn't there any longer?

Very confused.

Charlie

Not sure if I follow what you mean.

You can refresh a view by selecting File>Refresh, but a widget should stay visible once activated for a particular class of object.

Can you describe exactly what the process you are doing is, and I’ll see if I can replicate it.

Andy,

Thanks for taking the time to write this very nice widget and share it here. It works great and was easy to set up. I have a question for you. It would be useful to have a Local Path sent to Transmit as well. Can this be done easily?

Regards,
Karen

Hi Karen

I don’t believe so, no.

The Widget simply saves the URL of the FTP server, along with the login and password, using a standard FTP shortcut, that is then handled at the OS level and passed to whichever FTP program you have installed.

I imagine the Local Path element of a Transmit shortcut is held in a proprietary format to that program, and can’t be accessed in this fashion.

(Of course, if anyone can correct me, I’d be happy to take a another look.)

Sorry.

Hi Andy,

After I left the post above, I took a look at your html code and, although I really don't program in html, I could see what the widget was doing (as you describe above) and see how it is not possible to include the Local Path to Transmit.

Nevertheless, I will be able to put your widget to good use. Again, you have my thanks.

Karen

OK, really dumb question coming up, but first - Andy, thanks - this is great!

I use Transmit for my default FTP program, and I use the favourites there for easy access, but this is so much slicker, except.... every time I click 'connect' from the widget it launches Finder instead of Transmit. I've hunted around but I can't see what I've got wrong in my setup, or how to change the default FTP app - I have the option checked in Transmit to make it default - is there another setting in OSX somewhere that I need to change?

Any help greatly appreciated

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Andy White,

Hi Andy

Glad you like the widget

I also use Transmit as my default FTP app, and—as far as I knew—selecting that menu option in its prefs would make it the default handler of the FTP protocol; it certainly does on my machine. Maybe select something else, quit the app, then come back in a re-select Transmit?

Failing that, you could try the 3rd-party Preference Pane RCDefaultApp (free), which allows you to override any default handler, MIME types etc. I find it useful to restore normality and sanity when an errant app install takes over a bunch of types I didn’t want it to (hello Realplayer, I’m looking at you!).

HTH