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Phantom ChessBase Publishing Feature
By Steve | March 19, 2008
In ChessBase 9, when you output one or more games to “HTML + Javascript Replay,” you get a dialog box with several tabs. Most of the tabs have to do with color choices, frames or no frames, etc.
But one tab has me completely mystified. The tab is labeled “Publish” and it looks like this:
It certainly seems to me like this tab is intended to facilitate automatic uploading of the generated HTML to your web site. When I enter my server and access information into this dialog and press “Test,” it comes back and says something like “Connection open” after a few seconds.
But … I can find no way to actually get ChessBase to upload the game files! No combination of pressing buttons and selecting options on any of these tabs will make it do anything other than save the files to my local disk. I can find nothing in the documentation that even acknowledges the existence of the “Publish” tab.
Sheesh. I’m starting to think this tab has the same function as the push-to-cross buttons at intersections, or the door-close buttons in elevators—to make you feel stupid.
Can anyone solve this mystery for me?
6 Responses to “Phantom ChessBase Publishing Feature”
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March 20th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I’m sure Chessbase will be very helpful if you contact them.
LOL.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:02 am
BDK—Well, I decided to give it a try! I just filled out a support contact form at chessbase.com. We’ll see.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I’ll be so surprised if they actually respond…that would be perhaps an Easter miracle.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:57 am
I’ll be sure to post an update.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Maybe it’s like the elusive “any” key from the DOS dark age. Press any key to continue. :-Þ
March 31st, 2008 at 6:43 pm
:->
It’s been 12 days since I asked ChessBase for information about this. BDK was right … not a peep.