Hi thanks for your reply.
If I make a manual translation of my html pages to templates, can these still link to pdf files OK?
Where will I need to upload these template and pdf files? Can this be handled automatically for large numbers of files or can i do it with FTP?

Can i create the templates by cutting and pasting from each HTML page including its many HTML links to the pdf files?

Regards,
Mike

PS I am happy to send you details of the web site and admin details by PM so you can see what I am trying to do...

Mike the mix its like I said, nobody here can answer your question with a general YES or NO.
I am sure it depends on the html pages you have if they can be displayed correctly or not.

You can transfer your .pdf files via ftp to any locations you want.
Link that you generate in the CMS are the same like in normal .html files.

Why not simply give it a try? Install the hack and work with it.
Include some of your pages and check if its working for you or not.
Bringing content from one system to another does also mean you have to spend time and that you have to do work.
There is no automatic process that does it for you. The only automatic process that I know in this area is called "manpower" and that does mean that you have to pay someone else doing it for you :D

What you wanted sounds possible with Webtemplates to me.

If you want to keep the existing design of your HTML pages, just open them in IE, click "view source" and paste the source code into a webtemplate.

If you want them to inherit "vb look" (header/footer/logo/colors etc.), then you have to manually adjust their HTML codes while pasting them into webtemplates.

They can link PDF files and since the page is protected with vb permissions, people can not reach your PDF links in these pages without proper permissions. However please note that when somebody access it, he can always share the PDF link with other people who do not have permission. In other words, Webtemplate protects your page content (in which PDF links are displayed to users) with vb permissions, NOT your pdf files itself.

Make sure :
1- Forum URL in vb settings is correct.
2- Disable SEO friendly URL option and try again.
3- Make sure you configured SEO friendly URL hack correctly (and uploaded the .htaccess file)

Hello thank you for this addon.

I wish to use this for webpage where user can see his extra fields that are stored in userfield table.

I wish to use something like $filed20 or $field22 within template.
How do I achieve this?

Thank you!!!

$bbuserinfo[field1]

Please read Manual section 1.4

Last weekend we upgraded our board from 3.5.2 > 3.6.4
We were using WebTemplates 3.5.05 and now we upgraded to 3.6.01

All went fine, only when I try to export our webtemplates, I get the following error:

(don't know if we had this error before, because I never exported the templates before)
How can I fix this?

Also I noticed the version info in the XML file still says <version>3.5.0.05</version> ? Should be 3.6.01... or?

Thank you Logician,

all went great. I have even learned how to play with queries so now I do some custom pages with stats for me instead of going to phpMyAdmin :-)

But know I grown and want to build form with this sweet add-on :-)
Is it possible to implement also "update" queries that will take datas from form fields?

Thanks 1milion :-)

Yes - check back through this thread as it has been covered previously ;) Also look at the example WQs and WTs :)

I have not built such a form, but I believe it can be done. I recall I implemented the php_include_before sections into the hack so that such functionality can be available if needed. (as you might like to clean out the incoming variable before applying to UPDATE query etc.). But since I didn't do it myself, I can't assure it can be done. Some practical problems can occur which are not visible in theory. I'd say, give it a shot and see. :)