Since version 4.0, Business Pilot supports the notion of web site content. From within Business Pilot Studio, users can deploy and manager web pages.

The web site content is located under the Web Site folder in Studio. Everytime you add files under this part of the repository, it becomes available through the Internet/Intranet. You may decide to import images, documents or create web pages.

When importing documents (images, office documents or any other media) into the web repository, you must deploy the changes to make them available on the server. To do so, simply click the deploy button on the main toolbar of Studio.

Creating a blank web page

There are multiple ways of creating a web page from Business Pilot. Firstly, if you feel comfortable enough with Internet technologies, you can create HTML pages or any server side script (JSP, PHP, etc...) supported by the server. Note that in the Incodea Shared Hosting environment, server side scripts are not available for security purposes.

The preferred way of managing web pages is through the Business Pilot Studio web wizards. These wizards allow you to create templated HTML documents. Essentially, this means that you will be responsible for writing the text content, but not the look and feel of the page, which will be provided through Business Pilot's template engine.

To create a blank page, right-click on a folder under the Web Site and select Business Pilot Web page->Blank page. Enter a name for your page and click Finish. A text editor with sample content will open, allowing you to edit the text. Make your modifications by typing HTML directly or by using the toolbox on the left of the editor.

Once the document is ready, save it by pressing the save button above the text editor. In the configuration panel below the editor, you may click on the hyperlink to see your document in your computer's default web browser.

Using a Microsoft® Word to create a web page

Most word processors have a function to save document as HTML (web page). Business Pilot Studio has a wizard that lets you import a web page generated by Microsoft® Word and apply a template to it.

From the word processor, edit your document and select Save as. At the bottom of the file selector dialog, select Web page as the file type. Enter a file name and press save. From Studio, right click on the Web Site folder and pick Business Pilot Web page->From office document. Select the file you just saved from Word and Studio will do the rest. If your document included images, you will be notified that they will be imported into the web site as well. When done, you must press on the deploy button on the main toolbar of Studio to make the imported document(s) available online.

This technique offers an easy way to publish Internet pages to your web site by editing them in your word processor.

Importing a document

Importing a document into the web repository will make it available on the Internet. To import a document, select a folder under the Web Site base folder. Right click on that folder to pop up the contextual menu. In that menu, pick Import a local document (or Import a local directory if you would like to import an entire directory and everything it contains). A file selector will open and let you pick a file or directory to import. Once you press okay, the import sequence will begin. When the import if complete, you must press on the deploy button on the main toolbar of Studio to make the imported document(s) available online. To see your document in a web browser, right click on it and select Open in browser. This action will open your computer's default Internet Web browser and go to the web server address where your document is located.