Frontpage Problems

I have an intranet page that submits it's results to a comma seperated file.
Every moring the user's who use the form get a Frontpage error. The error
message is along the lines of: "Frontpage Error: User contact your webmaster.
Webmaster Contact the system's application event log for more details." I am
the webmaster and i go to the event log and find nothing.
To get rid of this error i must change the form to submit to a text file,
run the form,
change it back to a comma seperated file and run the form again. Why would
my form require "resetting" every morning.
appreciated. I was told once that the IUSR permissions may be set wrong,
what are they supposed to be set as?
Any help would greatly be

Just change and leave the file extension as .txt.

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"Nikon" <Nikon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have an intranet page that submits it's results to a comma seperated file.
> Every moring the user's who use the form get a Frontpage error. The error
> message is along the lines of: "Frontpage Error: User contact your webmaster.
> Webmaster Contact the system's application event log for more details." I am
> the webmaster and i go to the event log and find nothing.
> To get rid of this error i must change the form to submit to a text file,
> run the form,
> change it back to a comma seperated file and run the form again. Why would
> my form require "resetting" every morning.
> appreciated. I was told once that the IUSR permissions may be set wrong,
> what are they supposed to be set as?
> Any help would greatly be

Thanks for the reply, but i need it to be a comma seperated file, and as i
can see right now leaving it as a txt doesn't allow for it to be comma
seperated.

"Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:

> Just change and leave the file extension as .txt.
>
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> Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
> WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
> http://www.ycoln-resources.com
> FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
> ==============================================
> To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
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>

You should be able to set the file name to whatever you want and leave the format csv.

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"Nikon" <Nikon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the reply, but i need it to be a comma seperated file, and as i
> can see right now leaving it as a txt doesn't allow for it to be comma
> seperated.
>
> "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
>
>> Just change and leave the file extension as .txt.
>>
>> --
>> ==============================================
>> Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
>> WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
>> http://www.ycoln-resources.com
>> FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
>> ==============================================
>> To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
>> http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
>>

every time i change the extension of the file to .txt the format chages to
formatted text. so how do i make a txt file output to a comma seperated
without changing the output format.

"Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:

> You should be able to set the file name to whatever you want and leave the format csv.
>
> --
> ==============================================
> Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
> WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
> http://www.ycoln-resources.com
> FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
> ==============================================
> To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
> http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
>
> "Nikon" <Nikon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E66F85DA-B9F6-4C65-BBE7-5A1B129BF3B9@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks for the reply, but i need it to be a comma seperated file, and as i
> > can see right now leaving it as a txt doesn't allow for it to be comma
> > seperated.
> >
> > "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
> >
> >> Just change and leave the file extension as .txt.
> >>
> >> --
> >> ==============================================
> >> Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
> >> WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
> >> http://www.ycoln-resources.com
> >> FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
> >> ==============================================
> >> To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
> >> http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
> >>
>
>
>

Default values...

Select Form Properties
- Sent To | File name: _private/feedback.txt

Select Options
- File name: _private/feedback.txt
- File format: Text database using comma as a separator

Ok out and save form.
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"Nikon" <Nikon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> every time i change the extension of the file to .txt the format chages to
> formatted text. so how do i make a txt file output to a comma seperated
> without changing the output format.
>
> "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
>
>> You should be able to set the file name to whatever you want and leave the format csv.
>>
>> --
>> ==============================================
>> Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
>> WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
>> http://www.ycoln-resources.com
>> FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
>> ==============================================
>> To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
>> http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
>>
>> "Nikon" <Nikon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E66F85DA-B9F6-4C65-BBE7-5A1B129BF3B9@microsoft.com...
>> > Thanks for the reply, but i need it to be a comma seperated file, and as i
>> > can see right now leaving it as a txt doesn't allow for it to be comma
>> > seperated.
>> >
>> > "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Just change and leave the file extension as .txt.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> ==============================================
>> >> Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
>> >> WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
>> >> http://www.ycoln-resources.com
>> >> FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
>> >> ==============================================
>> >> To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
>> >> http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
>> >>
>>
>>
>>

That didn't work. The second i changed it to a .txt file it switched the
output to "formatted text"

"Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:

> Default values...
>
> Select Form Properties
> - Sent To | File name: _private/feedback.txt
>
> Select Options
> - File name: _private/feedback.txt
> - File format: Text database using comma as a separator
>
> Ok out and save form.

Which version of FP are you using, as it works for me in FP2000.

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"Nikon" <Nikon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> That didn't work. The second i changed it to a .txt file it switched the
> output to "formatted text"
>
> "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
>
>> Default values...
>>
>> Select Form Properties
>> - Sent To | File name: _private/feedback.txt
>>
>> Select Options
>> - File name: _private/feedback.txt
>> - File format: Text database using comma as a separator
>>
>> Ok out and save form.
>

Try this, let FP name the file with the .csv extension, save the page, open the _private folder and
rename the file with the .txt extension, then open the page and switch to HTML/Code view, and change
the webbot code to use the new file name.

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"Nikon" <Nikon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> That didn't work. The second i changed it to a .txt file it switched the
> output to "formatted text"
>
> "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
>
>> Default values...
>>
>> Select Form Properties
>> - Sent To | File name: _private/feedback.txt
>>
>> Select Options
>> - File name: _private/feedback.txt
>> - File format: Text database using comma as a separator
>>
>> Ok out and save form.
>

I am using FP2003, and I did what you said and renamed the file. What
happened was that when i renamed the file to output.txt through the code
editor i submitted the form and i got no output. output.txt was empty and my
entry had not been added to output.csv either. Thanks for all your help by
the way.

"Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:

> Try this, let FP name the file with the .csv extension, save the page, open the _private folder and
> rename the file with the .txt extension, then open the page and switch to HTML/Code view, and change
> the webbot code to use the new file name.
>
> --
> ==============================================
> Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
> WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
> http://www.ycoln-resources.com
> FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
> ==============================================
> To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
> http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
>
> "Nikon" <Nikon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9A72B69E-8A00-4A41-AEA3-3DED32228A0A@microsoft.com...
> > That didn't work. The second i changed it to a .txt file it switched the
> > output to "formatted text"
> >
> > "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
> >
> >> Default values...
> >>
> >> Select Form Properties
> >> - Sent To | File name: _private/feedback.txt
> >>
> >> Select Options
> >> - File name: _private/feedback.txt
> >> - File format: Text database using comma as a separator
> >>
> >> Ok out and save form.
> >
>
>
>