Wednesday, July 02, 2003

New things to do with Groove Files tool This is probably one of the cooler features I have seen in a while, thanks to a comment for an earlier posting by Seth: 1) Create a space with a Files tool (and a Web Links tool, if you want to browse together, too) 2) In an IE window (outside of Groove), go to www.groove.net, and click File/Save As..., making sure that "Save as type:" is "Web Page, complete". Click Save. 3) Find the saved web page in the file system. There will be an HTML file and a folder of the same name. Drag and drop both of these into the Files tool. 4) In the Files tool, single click the HTML file. 5) Click View/Show Preview - voila! Everything's coming from the Files tool, including all the images. The links all point into the Files tool as well. You can edit the files in the Files tool, and the preview pane will update to show the changes for all members. Now, if you want to browse that page together (this is a bit of a hack): 1) Right-click Properties... on the preview pane. Copy the Address (URL) field onto the clipboard by clicking anywhere in it and pressing Ctrl+A. The URL will be long and messy, starting with groovetelespace:// (which indicates that the source is located inside of Groove). Note that this URL is only valid from within Groove, not from outside of Groove. 2) Go to the Web Links tool. Paste the URL into the address field. Don't hit return yet; you have to edit the URL. 3) Delete the part of the URL starting with grooveIdentity and ending with the @ (delete the @, too) 4) Hit Enter 5) After the web site comes up, click Add Favorite... and hit enter. Now you have a favorite that points to the web site located in the Files tool. If you turn on Browse Together, everyone in the space can browse the site. I tried this on several websites, and run into very few snags, most of which can be attributed to dynamic/non-standard content.  Also, since the "Save As" in IE only goes one level deep, any linked documents will not be pulled down and will still be reference the original website. 8:41:50 AM    comment []

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