[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by obmob

Hello, hello, i was reading about synchronisation... i'm setting up a new forum and was wondering if it's a good idea to use this feature... how does this work?

If i create categories and subcategories, does this create folders and subfolders automatically?

How are the files added? I should upload them to the folders using ftp... or using the upload system in LDM? O.o

I'm confused... x.x
Thanks

The synchronisation features are intended for the situation where you maintain a large library of files on your server, neatly organised into directories and subdirectories, and you want LDM to translate that directory/file structure into the corresponding category/entry structure, and automatically create/delete categories and entries as necessary.

Two examples:
a) you are running your web server directly on a PC where you also maintain your personal photo library or music library. Rather than using LDM to upload and enter the files one at a time, you can use it to monitor the contents of the directories where you are storing these photo/music files.
b) you have a group of support staff who provide files to you by ftp upload. You don't want them to bother adding them to LDM; instead you can use the LDM synchronisation features to add them automatically.

What the synchronisation feature can't do is provide descriptive entries for the categories or entries, but you can do this yourself after these have been created.

Hope that's clear.