CourseForum and ProjectForum

Q: How do I....?

Just a reminder that our Frequently Asked Questions page contains a lot of information, particularly when it comes to installing or upgrading ProjectForum or CourseForum.

Q: Can I upload iWorks documents?

Documents from Apple's iWorks suite (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) are stored on your Mac as a directory containing several files, rather than a single file. The Mac finder just makes it appear to be a single file... applications work the same way. It's called a 'package', and you can see what's in a package by choosing 'Show Package Contents' from the context menu.

When you select one of these to upload, because its really a directory, the browser doesn't know how to handle it, and so they can't be uploaded directly. You'll first need to turn it into a single file, which can be done by choosing 'Compress' (or 'Archive' in 10.4) from the context menu, which turns it into a single zip file which can then be uploaded. Incidentally, when you try to attach a package in Mail.app, it will do this for you behind the scenes automatically. The browsers however don't do that.