Neville originally directed me to This Site as a possability of generating the SurfuLater TreeView and Articles. I did some work on it then got busy doing other stuff...

So I decided to clean up what I'd done so far and let people see.

Edit: Didn't clean up enough (unfortunately) and a call to UserAccounts.CommonDialog crashed the script, as did security issues. So, I've re-done it as a HTA, which tests OK on my security overkilled work computer.

This aint all that fancy and it doesn't do very much except load a read-only version of the SuL KnowledgeBase: but the TreeView works and the Articles display (somewhat like what they do in SurfuLater).

Instructions:

1. Download and unzip the attached HTMLview.zip file.
2. A HTML Directory will be created when unzipped.
3. Open the HTMLview.htm file in IE (FF is an issue)
4. Click the 'Load files' button and select a directory which contains SurfuLater files and read away...

What it does:

1. It creates an xml copy of the KB (so nothing terrible will happen to your data.
2. It uses some vbscript to pass the xml through an xslt transform (several times actually) to generate the TreeView and then Articles.

Possible Future Enhancements:

• Make it Server-Side code

- Perry

Attached Files

HTMLview.zip (58.8 KB, 27 views)

Hi Perry,
This sounds very interesting. I haven't had time to go near this stuff, as much as I've wanted to.

I'm getting various errors:
Line 17, Char 1
Error ActiveX Component can't create object: 'Scripting.FileSystemObject'
Code: 0

The the page loads ok, but there is an error symbol at the left of the status bar. Clciking on that displays the above error.

"Load File:" gives "Error on Page" on the status bar. Double click on status bar symbol shows:
Line 254, Char 3
Error: ActiveX component can't create object" 'UserAccounts.CommonDialog'
Code 0.

Over to you.

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Neville Franks,
Author of ED for Windows and Surfulater

Hi Neville:

Ah, the joys of Client Side Scripting!!
It sounds like your security is stopping scripting from creating ActiveX objects.

The other issue is with the UserAccounts.CommonDialog. Apparently it's only available when VS is installed (which creates a licence).

The Scripting.FileSystemObject should not be an issue as it's usually installed with Windows.

I've got a Custom setting with some things enabled and others not. "Run ActivateX controls" is enabled though. I've not seen this error before, but this may because I don't visit sites with ActiveX controls, but I doubt it. It may be that it isn't "marked as safe" whatever that means.

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Neville Franks,
Author of ED for Windows and Surfulater

I've learnt something about HTA's this weekend!

And I've re-written it as an HTA which not only works on my XP machine but also on my W98 (which the other one didn't), but just to make sure I'll take it to work and see there (if it works there it should work anywhere!).

- Perry

OK, the new HTA version works at my work, which I hope will mean it works most places.

Please let me know if that is not the case.

- Perry

I'm getting further this time. I've tried about 5 KB's and each one gives an
error Line 331, Char 3 Permission Denied.

FYI I'm using a different PC as I'm out of the office this week.

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Neville Franks,
Author of ED for Windows and Surfulater

Sounds like SurfuLater has locked the files you're trying to view.

I've added an error handler to that function: Let me know if that's not it.

- Perry

Nope. Surfulater wasn't running at the time. I'll check the new version.

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Neville Franks,
Author of ED for Windows and Surfulater

That's very odd, as all the offending line is doing is making a copy of the KB??

You're not running from within the archive? No odd permissions where a VBScript can't create a file???