Where do I find "Copy URL"?

[gcoghill]

I am trying to use the announced "Copy URL" feature, but I see nowhere to click to do so.

[gcoghill]

I just found out via another post that I was using 1.2 as opposed to 1.5. However,now I am using 1.5 and still cannot find the "copy URL" functionality in the interface or the Help files.

[csaba]

The point is well taken as to the lack of information on this feature. I will amend it in our help files. Until then, here's a short summary for Copy URL.

The URL copied to the Clipboard is the result of 3 data: the current full path of the file, as shown in the Path Navigator, the Base URL and Base path settings. These two are found in the Options tab of the Connect panel.

For those mathematically inclined, this is how the URL is constructed:

Copy URL = Base URL + (file full path - Base path)


Now with a standard example:

I want to send a URL to the file example.txt that I uploaded to our FTP server, in my public web folder.

The connection to our FTP server is set up thus:
server: ftp.binarynights.com
initial path: /
*(on a server without chroot service, this would be /home/csaba)

The public folder that is visible from the web, is: /public_html
*(on a server without chroot, this would be /home/csaba/public_html)

To enter the Base URL and Base path settings, I edit the connection, and go to the Options tab of the Connect... panel.

For Base URL, I would enter: http://www.binarynights.com/~csaba/ , which is how all URLs from this FTP account would start.

And for Base path, I must set: /public_html ,which is the part of the path that will have to be chopped from the beginning of the file's current path.
*(on a server without chroot, this would be of course /home/csaba/public_html)

Navigating to my public folder on the BinaryNights FTP server, I right-click example.txt. The Copy URL option is now available. When I paste the URL in an email, this is what I get:

http://www.binarynights.com/~csaba/example.txt

which is the result of

http://www.binarynights.com/~csaba/ + /public_html/example.txt - /public_html


OK, maybe this wasn't so short after all. Let me know if this is clear enough - if yes, I may simply paste it into our help pages ;-)

[gcoghill]

Base URL & Base apth make sense. But it seems one needs to enter these before the "Copy URL" is available (or even visible). Perhaps if no base paths/URLs are defined, the right-click menu could have a "Configure 'Copy URL'…" menu item? Or something ot indicate that the feature is available, but needs some setup.

Er, OK I just tested this and it's still not working. I set up the Base paths/URLs and still no "Copy URL" when right-clicking a file (I tried an image file).

OK, another update: I quit and restarted ForkLift, and then the "Copy URL" finally showed up in the right-click. Is this intended? I would think it should work on-the-fly.

Thanks for the help.

[Mudi]

Base URL & Base apth make sense. But it seems one needs to enter these before the "Copy URL" is available (or even visible). Perhaps if no base paths/URLs are defined, the right-click menu could have a "Configure 'Copy URL'…" menu item? Or something ot indicate that the feature is available, but needs some setup.

Er, OK I just tested this and it's still not working. I set up the Base paths/URLs and still no "Copy URL" when right-clicking a file (I tried an image file).

OK, another update: I quit and restarted ForkLift, and then the "Copy URL" finally showed up in the right-click. Is this intended? I would think it should work on-the-fly.

Thanks for the help.

At the moment you have to disconnect/reconnect to the server but no need to restart ForkLift.

[gcoghill]

Sounds good. Perhaps adding a "Disconnect" option to the right click menu for Favorites? Or even better an Eject symbol for those servers that are connected? And maybe a toolbar option would be nice - if the Connect buttons just became Disconnect perhaps?

I didn't realize there was a 'disconnect' until I hunted around for it.