Display File Explorer content in item detail pane

[cnewtonne]

Adding '*folder' works splendidly. Thanks

As for the http url, there are two ways to create a document item ...
1. Manually via creating a document item and set its url attribute.
2. Dragging from URL url box to the tree.

Method 1 does not display the url page automatically. Method 2 does. Is this by design? Is there no way to have method 1 display it automatically at all?

Thank

[kinook]

The DocType attribute is not user-creatable, and there are complications with enabling that, since it isn't obvious what the value should be for various circumstances, there are other attributes that may need to be set based on the actual content, and various other things that would be missing if done manually -- parsing of the page content for searchable text, assigning an item icon from the web site or file, etc.

You can still use Item | Open Document (Ctrl+J) to open externally in the associated application.

[cnewtonne]

I think I found a workaround that just works!

1) I created a new info item using method 1 above i.e. dragging from UR url edit
2) Moved it to 'template' folder.
3) Now, it appears in the insert child/sibling menu
4) Update URL as per your needs.

Thanks

[kinook]

Yes, I should have mentioned that for a particular document type, you can always create your own template from an imported item for that document.