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yitbos -> Problems with forms and frontpage 2003 (12/1/2004 13:54:49)

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum.

I've done some searches but I've not found the answers that I need regarding my problem.

I use frontpage 2003 and am creating a site that needs a contact us page. I've used the front page form template and have created a page with a full form (name, address, etc) and another page with just a simple one blank form for your name. neither of them work when I upload them to the comcast server taht I host my site on.

I have the front page extensions turned on for my server space, but I can't get the form to work. I'm really not sure why or how to fix it. You can see the page at www.rodeman.net. There is a contact us button on the left. If you submit the info, it goes looking for another page and I don't know why.

My desired result would be the form being emailed to me. But comcast says on their site that they don't support forms being emailed. I really didn't want to have things saved on the server because I would have to log into the site with the FTP program each time to look and see if anyone has submitted any info.

Can anyone give me some direction on what to do here? i don't know why forms are such a challenge, but they are.

Thanks everyone!
John



BobbyDouglas -> RE: Problems with forms and frontpage 2003 (12/1/2004 15:37:42)

I didn't think you could have control over what FP components are allowed to run, and what ones are not. (Server side)

What I would do first, is make sure the extensions are working. By the looks of things, the FP Extensiions are not install, or install but not working.



Larry M. -> RE: Problems with forms and frontpage 2003 (12/1/2004 16:05:14)

yitbos,

Bobby's on track here; your server is not showing FrontPage Extensions installed. You can verify by going to: http://www.dnswiz.com/fptype.asp . The "FrontPage Save Results Component" error on your contact page is a further indication. Once extensions are installed, your host makes no decision as to how they service FrontPage components of which Forms is one.

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I would have to log into the site with the FTP program each time to look and see


FrontPage files should be published, not FTP'd. A single file transfer session via FTP (not look-see) will most likely corrupt the extensions. Make it a rule to always publish - you can even look at your server files without publishing and/or synchronizing with the File >>Publish Site command.




AMysticWeb -> RE: Problems with forms and frontpage 2003 (12/1/2004 16:15:19)

Hi Yitbos,

Welcome to OutFront

Although some hosts claim to be FrontPage compatible, like you found out, some of them don't support formmail.

As to the extensions, it looks like they aren't installed. Although, if you used FTP to transfer this page to your site, this could produce the [FrontPage Save Results Component] as well.

Since they don't support formmail, you may need to use a third party thing like http://www.response-o-matic.com/



yitbos -> RE: Problems with forms and frontpage 2003 (12/1/2004 16:36:26)

I've had some success finally! I did go to a third party form emailer. Which does not advertise, much.

However, I do still have a couple of new questions now. If you go to our beta site at www.rodeman.net and click on contact us, you go to the form page. When you fill out the info and hit send, you very, very briefly see a page telling you that the form is being submitted by someone (the third party). However, you are not redirected to a different site and you are just left at the same form page you just filled out. So how does someone who just hit submit know that things worked? That's my first question.

I found using the response-o-matic script that you can add things in the form properties section under the advanced button, in the advanced form properties.

I added the following:
Under name it says email_subject_line
then I have a message in the value section.

I added under the name section return_link_url
and then added the URL of the confirmation page.

However, I just see all that info in my email the form sends me. It doesn't actually redirect them and the subject line does not come through on the email. Instead the person stays at the same submition page and the email comes thorugh with some generic email subject from the 3rd party.

Any suggestions on how to redirect and have some control over the form? Is this only handled on the 3rd party side or can I put hidden fields in that will force the script to do certain things?

Thanks again everyone. You made a new guy feel very welcome.

By the way, feel free to critique the site. The email address is not correct and the company name is not correct currently, that will be changing very soon. But the product and what we do is all current and accruate.

Thanks again.
John



Larry M. -> RE: Problems with forms and frontpage 2003 (12/1/2004 17:22:25)

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By the way, feel free to critique the site


John,

Site won't load at 17:17 Eastern.

quote:

The email address is not correct and the company name is not correct currently, that will be changing very soon


Consider changing hosts as well. Tom Brunt offers hosting. I've been very satisfied with www.discountasp.net , otherwise I would change my dozen+ sites to him without reservation.



yitbos -> RE: Problems with forms and frontpage 2003 (12/1/2004 17:59:10)

Larry,

I'm not sure why the site wouldn't load. I've had no problem at all with it. www.rodeman.net has worked for me every time without any issue. I've had other friends look at the site and they have had no issue getting there.

If you can't get it to load still, please let me know. I'm not sure what I would do to correct that issue.

Thanks for trying.

John



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