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One thing that was not really possible in WebSite-Watcher 4 was to check pages with IFRAMES. While it worked if you entered the URL of an IFRAME directly, it was impossible to monitor pages with dynamic IFRAME addresses. This is now possible with WebSite-Watcher 5.

IFRAMES are “embedded pages” and often used to display advertisements within web pages. Sometimes they are also used to list for instance the results of search queries.

IFRAME support isn’t enabled by default in WebSite-Watcher 5 and can be turned on per bookmark.

How does it work concretely?

If a page contains IFRAMES, an information bar is displayed as soon as you open the bookmark in the internal browser.

A click onto that info bar displays a menu from which you can open all IFRAMES in new browser tabs and verify if they contain important content. A second menu entry opens the IFRAME configuration in the bookmark properties where you have the following choices:

1. Check IFRAMES:
   Use this option if an IFRAME contains important information that should be checked for updates.
2. Suppress IFRAME warning:
   Use this option if IFRAMES are used to display advertisements. This setting will ignore all IFRAMES and no longer display the info bar when you open the bookmark.
3. Leave everything unchecked:
   This will not check IFRAMES, but you will see the browser info bar each time you open the bookmark.

In my previous post I talked about the new “Update similar bookmarks” functionality where you can apply properties from a single bookmark to other, similar bookmarks.

But you can also use the other direction and import properties from another, similar bookmark to the selected bookmark. This can be useful when you create a new bookmark and want to import existing configurations.

1. Create a new bookmark
2. Enter the URL
3. Click the button “Extra”
4. Select “Import properties from another bookmark”.

This will open a dialog where you can select a single bookmark and the properties you want to import.

If you change a bookmark configuration and want to apply the new configuration to other, similar bookmarks, you had to perform the following steps in WebSite-Watcher 4.x:

1. Close bookmark properties
2. Select the bookmarks you want to change
3. Right click the selection
4. Select “Set properties in all selected bookmarks”
5. Enter the configuration again

WebSite-Watcher 5 simplifies these steps with the new “Update similar bookmarks” functionality.

After changing a bookmark configuration, simply check the box “Update similar bookmarks” before you click OK.

This will open a new dialog where you can select similar bookmarks and the configurations you want to apply to them.

How does it work concretely?

In a first step, you have to choose similar bookmarks by

1. Entering a filter (folder/URL/Text filter), and
2. Selecting the bookmarks via the check boxes.

After pressing the button “Next” you have to choose the properties which should be applied to the selected bookmarks.

That’s all. Simple, fast, powerful.

The last 7 days were a bit “silent” here after releasing WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Beta-1.

I vote this as a really good sign that the first beta of WebSite-Watcher 5 is already a good and stable release.

Anyway, we have now implemented smaller improvements and fixes in Beta-2.

And I think that we have also found a working solution to prevent horizontal scrolling when jumping to the first change or keyword. This feature was requested several times, also in that forum thread.

Download WebSite-Watcher 5.0 Beta-2