Table of Contents Based On Catagory

[Robert Cohen]

Hello All,
I currently use on a lot of my company pages a Table of Contents Based on Catagory. It is helpful, but I find the catagory list is getting extremely long. For example, I might have these catagories

Program Improvement 2001
Program Improvement 2002
Program Improvement 2003
Program Improvement 2004
Pictures Halloween 2001
Pictures Halloween 2002
Pictures Halloween 2003
Pictures Halloween 2004
Pictures Christmas 2001
Pictures Christmas 2002
Pictures Christmas 2003
Pictures Christmas 2004

But what I would like ot know is if there is a way to do table of contents based on catagory filtering only those that meet all the catagories. So maybe I could simply have catagories of:

Program Improvement
Pictures
Halloween
Christmas
2001
2002
2003
2004

and in this example, have as catagories for Halloween 2002 pictures, I would have catagories of "Halloween", "Pictures", and "2002". Then when I create the page, I would have table of contents based on catagory that have Halloween, Pictures, and 2002 as catagories. It would make catagorizing my files easier and then creating table of contents as well. Is there a way? I like having the ability to match by any but would love to be able to match by all. Please help me with my ever growing website.

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

Hello All,
Howdy.

...is a way to do table of contents based on catagory
filtering only those that meet *all* the catagories.

Sadly, no, but perhaps you could organize your pages into
subwebs: by year, for example. This would cut down on the
nubmer of categories in each subweb.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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[Robert Cohen]

Thanks for the suggestion of subwebs.

I have seen some information on them. But maybe you can explain a couple of
things. For example, I see when working in my web in frontpage, I can so
subwebbing. But also, I see it on virtual server with Front Page Server
extensions. Is there are a difference in which way or do I need to do both?

Is there any differences betweeen having certain folders or having them as
subwebs. I know I can differientate who can access certain subwebs (I guess
I have to do that server side).

I guess I am just wondering if there are any hard and fast rules involved
and thigns I need to consider before subwebbing.

Also, I know you said I can't do what I want, but do you happen to know if
there is any plans of "correcting" that in future versions of fp?

 

[Jim Buyens]

Thanks for the suggestion of subwebs.

I have seen some information on them. But maybe you can explain a couple of
things. For example, I see when working in my web in frontpage, I can so
subwebbing. But also, I see it on virtual server with Front Page Server
extensions. Is there are a difference in which way or do I need to do both?

You can create subwebs using either the FrontPage desktop software
*or* the FrontPage Server Extensions Administration Web pages. The
results are equivalent. There's no need to do both.

Is there any differences betweeen having certain folders or having them as
subwebs. I know I can differientate who can access certain subwebs (I guess
I have to do that server side).

FrontPage manages each subweb as an independent body of content. For
example, each subweb has its own Navigation view. If you move or
rename a Web page, FrontPage only fixes links within the same subweb.
If you search an entire site for some string of text, FrontPage only
searches the current subweb.

I guess I am just wondering if there are any hard and fast rules involved
and things I need to consider before subwebbing.

The two most important ones are:
o Don't let any subweb (or the root Web) grow too large.
o Segregate content into subwebs logically. Data relationships and
hyperlinks into and out of the subweb should be few and simple.

Also, I know you said I can't do what I want, but do you happen to know if
there is any plans of "correcting" that in future versions of fp?

I have no special insight here, but I wouldn't bet on Microsoft
enhancing the Table Of Contents Based On Category component.

The kind of thing you're envisoning typically comes with document
management systems, or with portal software such as Windows SharePoint
Services. I would expect progress in those directions rather than
enhancements to "legacy" FrontPage Server Extension features.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|\---------------------------------------------------
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
|+---------------------------------------------------
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
|/---------------------------------------------------
*----------------------------------------------------

 

[Robert Cohen]

thank you for the information. I will have to play around with it.