Prefix, Suffix and Contains relate to beginning, ending and middle
text of the folder identified in "based on folder:". The tool will be
available only to those items which have values in the "based on
folder" which meet the Prefix, Suffix or Contains requirement. For
example, if a tool was based on a folder "Web Address" and prefix was
"www.", the tool would only be available for items which had a value
in "Web Address" that began with "www.".

"check parent item values also" tells Ecco to check not only the
selected item but it's parent as well to see if the requirements are
met for the tool to be available (e.g., the proper value in the based
on folder).

The "don't launch tool on double click" option prevents the tool from
launching when the item is double clicked.

Does anyone know what additional variables exist for the command line
other than <lauch-string> and <Name>?

--- In eccopro@y..., Abraham Zablocki <compamz1@y...> wrote:
> Hello wcressman,
>
> On Friday, September 06, 2002 at 22:31:36GMT -0000 (which was 6:31
PM where I live) wcressman wrote and made these points on the subject
of "[eccopro] Updating Launch Menu Map Tool":
> w> A fellow Ecco user asked me to update my Mapquest launch tool, which
> w> launches www.mapquest.com with an Ecco business address. I thought
> w> I'd run through what I did to illustrate the simplicity of the
> w> updating.
>
> w> a) First I went to Mapquest and entered an address. I got the
> w> following URL:
>
> w> http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?
> w> country=US&address=7540+LBJ+Frwy&city=Dallas&state=TX&zipcode=75251
>
> w> b) Then I substituted in the Ecco address codes, like so:
>
> w> http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&address="<address 1 -
> w> business>"&city="<City - business>"&state="<State -
> business>>"&zipcode="<Zip - Business>"
>
> w> c) Then I to the Launch Menu and entered in the new command string
> w> for my tool. Presto, it works!
>
> w> You can extend this principle to lots of sites that pass parameters
> w> along in their URL string, by substituting in the Ecco folder
> w> parameters. Ecco folder parameters are always in the form "<folder
> name>>", including the quotation marks. So, for example, you could
> w> write a tool that searches google.com for a phone book name.
>
> Ok, this seemed like a good idea, so I took a shot at it. The tricky
> part - of course, there's gotta be a tricky part! - is that the
> phonebook name isn't stored as a folder value. Rather it's stored as
> item text and the folder value for "<PhoneBook>" is just a check mark.
> After some experimentation, I found that the following string sort of
> works:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q="<Name>"
>
> I say "sort of works" because this gets Google to search for the
> string "Last Name, First Name". Obviously it would be much better to
> find a way to get it to search for "First Name"+"Last Name" but I
> can't figure out how.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Related query: does anyone understand the options in the Tool
> Available section of the Define Launchable Tool dialog box? Based on
> Folder seems pretty obvious, but what about Prefix, Suffix, and
> Contains, and Check Parent Item Values Also?
>
> Thanks,
> Abraham Zablocki
>
> w> Best regards,
> w> Wayne Cressman
>
>
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