Spidering Tab

Show spider progress with sets the way in inform you of a channel's progress as it is being spidered. There are 2 choices:

• A console window Launches a shell console window and starts the parser to pluck the channel.
• A progress dialog: A dialog pops up showing the current channels' progress, including a details window capturing the messages from the parser as it spiders. For details on the progress dialog, see Progress Dialog.

Beginner tip: On Linux/GTK, you can scroll back and forth on the console window to review the channel update progress. You can do the srolling in either of two ways: either right and left click with the mouse while the mouse pointer is over the scrollbar, or press Shift + Page Up and Shift + Page Down. The Page Up and Page Down keys to use are the ones that aren't on the numeric keypad, but the other ones.

Beginner tip: On Linux/GTK you can close the console window by clicking the close icon twice. The first click will terminate plucker-build, the second click will terminate the console window.

Autoclose progress when done specifies what to do with the progress feedback (console window or progress dialog) when spidering is complete. There are 3 choices:

• Always Always automatically close the feedback, regardless of whether the channel had an error or not.
• If no errors occurred: Automatically close the feedback if there was no errors, otherwise keep it open. This feature is not yet implemented
• Never: Never automatically close the feedback. Keep it visible until it is closed manuallly.

Execute command before spidering a group of channels executes the specified operating system command immediately before starting to spider the first channel of a group of one or more channels.

Execute command after spidering a group of channels executes the specified operating system command immediately after starting to spider the first channel of a group of one or more channels.

Power user tip: These are 'synchronous executions'. That is, the program flow of Plucker Desktop is halted until the applications called by these commands have terminated. This gives the command time to finish whatever it needs to do.

Power user tip: The purpose of these is to execute a command at the end of updating a set of channels, usually a command that takes arguments of serveral output files. For example, instead of executing a command to FTP an output file after spidering each channel (as set on the Configure Channel Dialog's Spidering Tab) ) you could FTP all the updated .pdb files in one single command, by specifying it here.

Power user tip: The command executed after spidering is done after the output files are installed to their handheld or directory destinations.

Edit shared inclusion/exclusion list... calls up the Inclusion/Exclusion List Dialog to edit the shared inclusion/exclusion list. This shared exclusion list is used for all channels. As well as the shared inclusion/exclusion list, a channel-specific inclusion/exclusion list can be used for each channel.