Discussion Board "Recycling" Posts

[Thor]

Greetings

I have a discussion board set up which is the way I like it but there is one
aspect that is driving me nuts. That issue is that when someone posts
something to the discussion board, the server seems to grab an existing html
file from those stored, and then adds thew new information to the old html
document and sticks it in the "contents" folder. Any ideas on how I can force
it to devepo a new html document rather than using an existing one?

 

[Ronx]

Archive the existing discussion web, and start again with new. This is a
fairly common problem with the FrontPage discussion web, especially when
there are a large number of posts.

 

[Thor]

Thank you Mr. Symonds but I don't quite understand. Will this eliminate the
problem or only "reset" it so they start numbering over again.

V/R

Eric

 

[Ronx]

It will reset the numbering - you will be starting a NEW discussion web.
None of the previous posts will be available, which is why I said archive
the existing web, also remove the Post pages so no further posts can be
made to the existing web.
The problem will emerge again eventually. The only long term solution is
to use a different discussion web, such as phpBB (requires server side
scripting).

 

[Thor]

Thanks Again Mr. Symonds! Do you know if this issue has been corrected with
MS Expression Web 2? Maybe it's time to update my software...

 

[Ronx]

It's been corrected in Expression Web in the sense that the discussion web
has been removed (though EW will support the existing code base brought
in from FrontPage. The problem is not FrontPage or Expression Web - it is
the FrontPage extensions on the server (and your host cannot help with this
since he cannot rewrite the extensions).

The FrontPage discussion web is using the same code now that it did in
1998 - it is time to move on to a new technology such as PHP or asp.NET
(whatever your host supports).