Settings on the Generation tab allow automation of many tasks in building your web site with WebMerge. For example, WebMerge can automatically upload the completed files to your web server. We'll focus on the items that may be important for affiliates.
FTP
WebMerge can be used to automatically upload the completed files to your web server. To use this feature, enable it, by checking the box "FTP files to server." You'll need to select "Edit list..." from the drop down menu.
Figure 1 - FTP Dialog
Once selected, the FTP server settings box pops-up allowing you to change the settings necessary to upload files to your web server. After WebMerge builds the site specified in the main settings file, it will automatically upload the files specified in the "Root Folder" selection.
Automating the Multi-Tier Process
When building a three-tier web site, two settings files are required. You
can run these manually, and separately by selecting the first settings file,
and have WebMerge build the first tier index page(s), then by manually selecting
the second settings file, and build the last index tier, and detail pages.
There is an easier way. On the "Generation" tab in Webmerge, you can tell WebMerge to run more settings files automatically after the previous one completes. By clicking on "Run other WebMerge files after this one completes," and selecting the next settings file, WebMerge will run the first settings file one time to start the process, and automatically run the next Settings File you have selected. This tool's true value really comes out when it is time to make your process run quickly each time you need to build (re-build) the site, as the data feed file is updated from the Merchant.
More than one additional settings file can be selected to be run automatically, if an unusual configuration is required, or you are building additional tiers (four, five or more).
Figure 2 - Run other WebMerge files...