Help, updates and Open in: FTP by Zaweba alongside other apps
How FTP by Zaweba works with the other Zaweba apps: send a file to another app with Open in, check for updates, and send feedback or report a problem.
FTP by Zaweba is one app in a family of free Windows programs, and a handful of features exist to make it a good neighbour to the others. They live in the Help menu and the File menu, and while none of them moves a file to a server, they make it easier to keep the app up to date, ask for help and pass work between apps.
Open in another Zaweba app
File, Open in sends the current file to another Zaweba app. A website project often needs more than an FTP client and a code editor. A picture may need more work than the built-in image editor's crop, resize, rotate and Save for Web. A spreadsheet of products may need sorting before it becomes a page. Open in hands the file over without a trip through Explorer.
Some of the family are natural partners for website work. Server by Zaweba is the closest: with it installed, PHP pages in Live Preview are served from your own PC using the PHP version Server has for that site, so sessions, includes and local databases behave as in a browser. Without it, HTML still previews and PHP pages show a prompt with Get Server by Zaweba. Nothing in either case is ever run against your live server.
Check for Updates
Help, Check for Updates looks for a newer version of the app. It is worth running now and then, especially if a feature described in a guide does not seem to be where it should be.
Send Feedback and Report a Problem
Help, Send Feedback is for ideas, requests and comments. Help, Report a Problem is for when something has gone wrong. The report is sent only when you click Send, so you can read it and change your mind before anything leaves your PC.
A good report says what you were doing, what you expected and what happened instead. If the problem involves a transfer, copying the log from the bottom panel and including the relevant part helps a great deal, because it shows what the server actually said. Remove anything private, such as host names you would rather not share, before sending.
Other Zaweba Apps
Help, Other Zaweba Apps shows the rest of the family. It is the place to look when a job lands outside what an FTP client does, such as a favicon for a site, a set of labels or a spreadsheet.
Free software, and what that means here
FTP by Zaweba is free software under a licence agreement, which the app asks you to accept once on first start and keeps under Help. There is no account to create and no sign-in to the app itself. Your sites, saved passwords and settings stay on your PC; passwords are protected with Windows so they only open for your Windows account on that PC.
Your files only go where you send them. Transfers go to the servers you set up, Report a Problem only sends when you click Send, and Live Preview never runs anything against the live server.
Making the most of the family
If you look after websites, the core of your day will be FTP by Zaweba itself: the file panes, the code editor, Live Preview and the transfer tools. Add Server by Zaweba for PHP sites, and reach for the other apps through Open in when a file needs a job this one does not do. Keep it up to date with Check for Updates, and if something does not work as you expect, tell the people who make it. That is what the Help menu is for.
