Using Your NewsHunter Documents

Creating a New NewsHunter Document When you create a new NewsHunter document, you are presented with a default document that you can configure any way you desire. If you have not yet defined a news server, NewsHunter will automatically present you with the News Server window when you creat a new document. Once you have defined at least one news server, you can begin using the new NewsHunter document. The first thing you may want to do is to save the document by selecting Save from the File menu. You can save your NewsHunter document anywhere you like, but for simplicity, it is suggested that you save your NewsHunter documents into the same folder as your NewsHunter application or into your Documents folder. Tip 10 - Saving Your NewsHunter Document The only time you need to save you NewsHunter documents is when it is newly created. Once you have a NewsHunter document, any changes made are automatically saved to the database in real time. You can even change many of the options while your NewsHunter document is running and they will take effect almost immediately. Downloading the list of Newsgroups The next thing to do is to download the list of newsgroups from the news server if you have not yet done so. Before you can search for newsgroups, you have to build the list of newsgroups. Open the Newsgroup Manager and click on the Build Newsgroup List button. Once the list of newsgroups has been downloaded from your news server to your NewsHunter folder, the search function will be enabled. The Newsgroup Manager is accessed by clicking on the Add... button in the Newsgroups section of your NewsHunter document. If you do not want to download the list of newsgroups, you can still add newsgroups to your NewsHunter document manually. Click here for more information on how to add newsgroups. Basic Scanning Once you have added some newsgroups to your NewsHunter document, you are ready to begin downloading. Click the Start button and your NewsHunter document will: Connect to the news server Select the first newsgroup that is turned on. Begin scanning for files to download at the first article in the newsgroup. Once the final article is reached, your NewsHunter document will move to the next newsgroup in the list that is turned on and beging download again. Once the final newsgroup in the list has been scanned, your NewsHunter document will close the connection to the news server and stop scanning. Advanced Scanning - Newsgroup Cycling You can easily modify the way your NewsHunter documents scan by opening the Options window and configuring the various setting. For example, say you do not want to scan an entire newsgroup before moving to the next newsgroup in the list. Perhaps you would like to cycle through each newsgroup, downloading only a few images each time. You may want to do this if you want to see a few images from each newsgroup. To do this, you would turn on Newsgroup Cycling. Procedure 14 - Enabling Newsgroup Cycling To enable newsgroup cycling do this: Open a NewsHunter Document. Click the Options... button. Place a check mark in the Cycle Through Newsgroups option. Select how many files you want to download before moving to the next newsgroup. Optionally select the number of headers to download. Close the Options window. To turn off newsgroups cycling open the Options window and uncheck the Cycle Through Newsgroups option. Once you have enabled newsgroup cycling, you NewsHunter document will scan newsgroups in the following manner after you click the Start button: Connect to the server. Select the first newsgroup that is turned on. Begin downloading files. When the specified number of files has been downloading, move to the next newsgroup that is turned on. When the final newsgroup is reached, begin scanning all over again at the first newsgroup is turned on. Cycle through newsgroups downloading files until the Stop button is pressed. Tip 11 - Ordering Newsgroups You can order the list of newsgroups any way you like by using the Up and Down buttons in the Articles section of your NewsHunter document. Advanced Scanning - News Server Cycling If you have accounts on more than one news server, you can configure your NewsHunter document to not only cycle through the newsgroups, but to also cycle through the list of news servers as well. this enables you to download from all the newsgroups and all the news servers with a single click of the Start button. Procedure 15 - Enabling News Server Cycling To enable News Server Cycling follow the procedure below. If you only have an account on one news server, then you should not enable this option. Open a NewsHunter document. Click on the Options... button. Place a check mark in the Cycle Through News Server option. Close the Options window. Your NewsHunter document is now configured to cycle through each of the news servers. After you have enabled News Server Cycling, your NewsHunter document will now be able to download from one news server, move to the newxt news server in the list, download files from that news server, and, when the final news server has been processed, begin all over again at the first news server in the list. Once you have enabled news server cycling, you NewsHunter document will scan newsgroups in the following manner after you click the Start button: Connect to the server. Select the first newsgroup that is turned on. Begin downloading files. When the specified number of files has been downloading, move to the next newsgroup that is turned on. When the final newsgroup is reached, select the next news server in the list. Log on to the news server Begin downloading files Cycle through newsgroups and news servers downloading files until the Stop button is pressed. Deleting Newsgroups Deleting, or unsubscribing from newsgroups is easy. Simply click on the newsgroup name and click the Delete button. The newsgroup is removed from the list. Turning Newsgroups On or Off When you turn a newsgroup off, your NewsHunter document will not download files from it. If a newsgroup is on, your NewsHunter document will include the newsgroup when downloading files. turning newsgroups off is a good way to temporarily unsubscribe from the newsgroup and is easier than constantly deleting and adding newsgroups. Selecting a News Server To select a news server click on the News Server menu in the News Servers section of your NewsHunter document. You will notice that the list of newsgroups will be updated to display the newsgroups to which you have subscribed on the celected news server. This lets you easily use the same NewsHunter document to access several news servers. If you want to add a news server to the menu, select the New... command from the News Servers menu. A dialog box will open where you can fille in the appropriate information. See Procedure 10 for more information.