How to use the wizard generated discussion forum.

[John Berg]

Generating a discussion forum was as easy as advertised but how to I
incorporate it into my website.

The discussion forum wizard generated 5 files:
Disc1_cfrm.htm
Disc1_frm.htm
Disc1_post.htm
Disc1_tocf.htm
Disc1_welc.htm

Which of these to a "jump to" first to initiate the user into the forum?
How can I send the confirmation form back to the user if I have his email
address?
Which of these should anyone wanting to see the responses accumulated todate
go?
Which of these should be the last one left before returning to the main
website?

Thanks.

--
John Berg
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his
absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must
delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has
ceased to be a great power among men. --W. Churchill

 

[Ronx]

The same answer to all questions - Disc1_frm.htm
This is a frameset page which holds all the others.

However, it looks as if you have created the discussion web inside an
existing web. The recommended practice is to create a new web for the
discussion web - this would create the 5 files as
Disc1_cfrm.htm
index.htm (or Default.htm)
Disc1_post.htm
Disc1_tocf.htm
Disc1_welc.htm

and index.htm/Default.htm will be the frameset page to link to.
If the discussion web is not in its own subweb, then publishing the
web may wipe out any discussion threads on the server.

You cannot send the confirmation form back to the user unless you
1) replace the FrontPage discussion web with a third party
discussion web that uses server side scripting
or 2) use an email autoresponder that will work with the reply-to
header in the email
or 3) use some other mechanism, such as a rule in your email client.

 

[John Berg]

Yes, I did generated in with my website. I'm confused about how I can have
two "index.htm" in the same website. Are they in two seperate folders?

 

[Ronx]

Yes, two separate folders. Your root folder holds your home page
named index.htm. In the root folder is a subweb (which is a folder
containing files and folders that make it a subweb). The subweb
contains the other index.htm.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

They won't be the same web site (the DW will be in a separate subweb)
- create the DW as a new subweb and while creating it you will be asked if you want the starting page to be the home page (of that
subweb)

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| Yes, I did generated in with my website. I'm confused about how I can have
| two "index.htm" in the same website. Are they in two seperate folders?
|
| --
| John Berg
|
| | > The same answer to all questions - Disc1_frm.htm
| > This is a frameset page which holds all the others.
| >
| > However, it looks as if you have created the discussion web inside an
| > existing web. The recommended practice is to create a new web for the
| > discussion web - this would create the 5 files as
| > Disc1_cfrm.htm
| > index.htm (or Default.htm)
| > Disc1_post.htm
| > Disc1_tocf.htm
| > Disc1_welc.htm
| >
| > and index.htm/Default.htm will be the frameset page to link to.
| > If the discussion web is not in its own subweb, then publishing the web
| > may wipe out any discussion threads on the server.
| >
| > You cannot send the confirmation form back to the user unless you
| > 1) replace the FrontPage discussion web with a third party discussion
| > web that uses server side scripting
| > or 2) use an email autoresponder that will work with the reply-to header
| > in the email
| > or 3) use some other mechanism, such as a rule in your email client.
| > --
| > Ron Symonds
| > Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
| > Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
| >
| > | >> Generating a discussion forum was as easy as advertised but how to I
| >> incorporate it into my website.
| >>
| >> The discussion forum wizard generated 5 files:
| >> Disc1_cfrm.htm
| >> Disc1_frm.htm
| >> Disc1_post.htm
| >> Disc1_tocf.htm
| >> Disc1_welc.htm
| >>
| >> Which of these to a "jump to" first to initiate the user into the forum?
| >> How can I send the confirmation form back to the user if I have his email
| >> address?
| >> Which of these should anyone wanting to see the responses accumulated
| >> todate go?
| >> Which of these should be the last one left before returning to the main
| >> website?
| >>
| >> Thanks.
| >>
| >> --
| >> John Berg
| >> The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as
| >> his
| >> absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must
| >> delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has
| >> ceased to be a great power among men. --W. Churchill
| >>
| >>
| >
| >
|
|

 

[John Berg]

I now have a sub-web within the website which contains all the components,
including the SUBWEB's index.htm. The site opens in the flash page, goes
when told to the top or root of the website. On the top row, one can select
the discussion and then jumps into it on a separate page. Preparing a post
works fine and accumulates as it should. I intended to leave the discussion
use a hyperlink on the "sailor's palm" icon but it doesn't leave the
frameset cleanly. Seems to leave with half the frameset left behind.
What's the correct way to leave?

On a separate note, the search seems to be searching the entire web site
rather than just the forum entries. Is that the way its suppose to work?

Thanks for the help. Progress is a lot quicker with your input.

 

[Ronx]

The hyperlink to leave the discussion web should have the frame target
set to _top
Right click the link, and choose hyperlink properties.
Set the target frame to whole page (_top)

 

[John Berg]

New www.sea-room.com forum seems to be working find. Try it and ask any
questions. Ordinarily we would talk about books and things from the Age of
Sail.