Publishing Simple Outlines
activeRenderer tutorial - part 1
Step 1: bring the Radio application to the front.
Under MacOS, click on the Radio UserLand icon in the dock (click the 'camera' wedge for a screenshot).
Under Windows, if you can see a Radio Userland tile in the task bar at the bottom of your display, click on it.
If no tile is visible yet, right-click on the small Radio icon in the system tray at the bottom right, and select the 'Open radio' menu option.
Step 2: create a new outline.
Select the File / New menu option in Radio.
Step 3: type in some text.
Use the tab and shift-tab keys to move the indentation level of each paragraph, as I just did. You may also drag and drop paragraphs around.
Step 4: time to save your work.
Select the File / Save menu option in Radio.
The important thing is to properly specify in which folder you are saving your outline file.
You may save it in the outlines subfolder of Radio's www folder.
The outlines folder was created by activeRenderer at installation.
Files stored in outlines are automatically rendered in HTML and upstreamed to the public site.
The public url of your rendered outline would be something like: http://yourWeblogURL/outlines/yourOutlineName.html
You can of course create and use subfolders in the outlines folder.
Or you may save it in the opml subfolder of Radio's www folder.
This way, the outline is upsteamed to the public site in its native OPML format, no HTML rendering along the way.
The URL for the public version of the outline would look like: http://yourWeblogUrl/opml/yourOutlineName.opml
If the "Mirror the 'outlines' and 'opml' sub-folders" option is checked in activeRenderer's preferences, saving in either of those 2 folders will create an immediate copy in the other.
This way, your outlines are upstreamed on your public site both in HTML and OPML format.
Step 5: check the publicly rendered version in your Web browser...
...from Radio's Event Log page - Radio / Local Pages / Events Log option in the Radio application.
Check that the file you just created has been upstreamed (it might take a few minutes), and then click the link to the HTML version of the outline.
Note again how the complete URL of your outline is formed. For this page, the URL matching www:outlines:tutor:aRTutorial1.opml is http://www.activerenderer.com/outlines/tutor/aRTutorial1.html.
If there is a communication problem while upstreaming, as demonstrated in the second line of the log in the previous screenshot, just save your document again in Radio.
That's it. You have just published your first outline. Of course, there are lots of things you can do to improve its presentation, as you will find out in part 2.
