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 Members: 768 Issue 16, Vol 1 23 MAY 2002

 
 
   
 
 
EDITORS:  
Tina Clarke
Tiffany Edmonds
Frances Stewart

Technical Advisor:
Alex Tushinsky

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TIPS AND TRICKS


FRONTPAGE FORM TAG TRICK
How to win back your FP form tag without
having to completely re-do your form FrontPage
2000 & FrontPage 2002.

Open the form page in FP.
Place your cursor on the page in normal view
well above the starting point of the "faulty" form
on the page.

INSERT > FORM > FORM
This will insert a form opening and closing tag in
the HTML along with a default Submit and Clear
button.
Place your cursor on the page, inside the top
form that you just inserted, then click to HTML
view this places your cursor in the HTML view
near the <form> tag of the form you just
inserted.

Locate the opening <form> tag and web bot
tag... should look something like:

<form method="POST"
action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults"
U-File="fpweb:///_private/form_results.csv"
S-Format="TEXT/CSV"
S-Label-Fields="TRUE" -->

Ctrl+C to copy it... then click to Normal view.
Place your cursor on the page near the top of
the "faulty" form.
Click to HTML view and look around the cursor
for the "faulty" form and web bot tag.
Once located, highlight them and Ctrl+V to
paste the new default one over the "faulty" one.

Click to normal view.
Delete the "new" form that you added at the top
of the "faulty" form completely place your cursor
inside the "faulty" form, right click and select
form properties and configure the form as you
would like using the options in the form
properties dialog box.
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HOW TO USE FRONTPAGE TO MAKE
E-BOOKS

Simply make your site in FrontPage and then
download the below FREE E-Book Builder.

SbookBuilder 7
http://jansfreeware.com/jftools.htm#sbookbuilder
"SbookBuilder creates a standalone HTML
viewer executable of a directory and all the html,
image and sound files in it, with just a few button
clicks. Frames support, zoomable print preview
and printing of selected pages, custom start
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sequence file in your Sbook so that users can
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with hit-highlighting. NEW: support for png
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I've used this to make ebooks for you our
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Microsoft FrontPage Bulletin Archives 1999 -
2000
Microsoft FrontPage Bulletin Archives - 2001
Microsoft FrontPage Bulletin/FanZine Archives -
2002

Then I followed the seven simple steps to making
the ebook. Imported it into the web, inserted a
link on a web page and linked it to the ebook and
published.

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MAIN ARTICLE

CREATE A HYPERLINK TO DISPLAY RECORD
DETAILS WITH FRONTPAGE
By Kathleen Anderson, FP MVP
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/

Summary: In this tutorial, we are going to create
a "pick list" page from which you can select a
record via a hyperlink and display the detail for
that record on another page. To see the pick list
query in action, the link is:
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/queries/picklist.asp

More information: This article assumes that you
have already imported your database into your
web, and that FrontPage has created the fpdb
folder, put the database in that folder, and
created the global.asa file and the database
connection. Please review "How to create a
FrontPage Database Connection"
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/tutorials/create_dbc.htm
for more information,. For this tutorial, we will be
using a database called autos.mdb that you can
download from my site at:
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/fpdb/autos.mdb
We are going to name the Database
connection "myautos". We are going to use the
"cars" table.

Part 1 - Create the detail display page

Create a new page and save it as display.asp

Insert | Database | Results

Step 1: Use an existing database connection:
myautos.

Step 2: Record source: cars.

Step 3: Click More Options, Criteria, Add, and
use ID as the field name, make sure that the
"Use this search form field" box is checked.
Click OK 3 times.
Click Next.

Step 4: Click Next.

Step 5: Display all records together, uncheck
the box Add search form, and click Finish.

Save the page (as display.asp) and close it.

Part 2 - Create the "pick list" page

Create a new page and call it picklist.asp

Insert | Database | Results

Step 1: Use an existing database connection:
myautos.

Step 2: Record source: cars.

Step 3: Edit the list of fields, highlight "model"
and "numDoors" and remove them from the list
and click OK.
Click Next.

Step 4: Click Next.

Step 5: Display all records together and click
finish.

In Normal View, right-click on <<ID>> in the
Database Results Region, choose Hyperlink.
In the Create Hyperlink dialog box, choose
display.asp, then click Parameters, Add, click
in the Path box, Insert Field Value, choose ID
from the dropdown list.
Click OK twice.

Save the page (as picklist.asp).

Part 3 - Test your pages

Preview picklist.asp in your browser; choose a
record by clicking on a hyperlinked ID field.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
******************************
Kathleen Anderson, FP MVP is an
accomplished IT pro and a leading expert on
website accessibility issues. Owner of Spider
Web Woman Designs:
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
She specializes in accessible websites for
small businesses and non-profits. See her site
for excellent FrontPage resources.

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