Adding Tables to Cache Pages

CarrollEyre · Post by **CarrollEyre** » 26 July 08 8:48 am

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but some one will tell me where to go (hopefully politely) if it wrong.
I am referring to the GeoSport In Devonport (GA1176) page that I am helping organise.
How do I add tables to the page? I have a table for competitor teams and another for the waypoints for the observation rally to add to the page.
Is there anything special that I should do with the waypoint information so that users can download the info straight onto their GPSr's.
I am not the most techno savvy person so instructions in Easy Australian ver 1.00 would be appreciated.

Swampy · Post by **Swampy** » 26 July 08 10:45 am

I would tackle it like this.

Create the table so it fits within the size of your screen.
Capture a screen grab by pressing the 'print screen' button on your keyboard (very unused button probably over on the right). This puts a copy of your screen into the clip board.
start up a graphics program like Paint (comes standard with Wyndoze)
Paste the image into a blank file and fiddle with the image until you are happy with the outcome.
Save the file as a .jpeg or .jpg file.
You can now upload the picture file and link to it from the listing.

I'm sure I will be corrected but I think this should work.

Post by **caughtatwork** » 26 July 08 11:06 am

CarrollEyre wrote:Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but some one will tell me where to go (hopefully politely) if it wrong.
I am referring to the GeoSport In Devonport (GA1176) page that I am helping organise.
How do I add tables to the page? I have a table for competitor teams and another for the waypoints for the observation rally to add to the page.
Is there anything special that I should do with the waypoint information so that users can download the info straight onto their GPSr's.
I am not the most techno savvy person so instructions in Easy Australian ver 1.00 would be appreciated.

Go edit your cache page.
I've inserted a 3 column, two row table in it for you.
You should be able to use "right click" on the table to get more options to add / delete / etc colums and rows.

Swampy · Post by **Swampy** » 26 July 08 11:19 am

Told you someone would do it better

CarrollEyre · Post by **CarrollEyre** » 27 July 08 8:36 am

Thanks Caught at Work and Swampy for the advice.
I now have a pretty table, just no time to add the info until late tonight.
Is it possible for people to download the waypoints out of this table or do they have to manually enter each of the co-ordinates? I would be a manual enterer in any case.
Is there anything obvious that I should be doing to make lines and borders appear?

Post by **caughtatwork** » 27 July 08 10:38 am

If you right click on the table and select table properties, you can set a border and other attributes.

GCA has no method of having people load additional co-ords from the page to their GPS. They will need to do it manually unless you create a separate .gpx file and store it somewhere on the internet.

CarrollEyre · Post by **CarrollEyre** » 10 August 08 8:26 am

Many thanks for your help with setting up of the page.
The day was great .

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Adding Tables to Cache Pages

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