FP2K3: Reusing pages with Included Content?

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I'm basically a novice at creating web sites. I have done it before, but everything was done by "brute force" so to speak. This time I'm trying to be at least a little bit smarter.

I have a web-page that uses a layout that will be standard throughout my site, but it is not a very printer-friendly layout. So, I created a "printable format" link to a common "print.htm" page with the relevant content included.

Is there a way to automatically reuse that "print.htm" with the content from the source page?

For example, here is a "topic" page from my site that includes a "text" content page:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/admin/mail.htm

If you follow the "Printable Format" link, you'll arrive at the printable page for mail.htm. Do I have to create a separate "_print" page for every topic, or is there some way to read the included "_text" page from the "topic" page where the user has clicked "printable format" and automatically include that in the standard "print" page.

I hope that makes sense... it's still early here.

carl
 
Do it in reverse
Create your content in printable pages (no nav, etc) as say pfilename.htm
Then include the printable page as rich content w/i your main pages (as say filename.htm)
- link from the main pages to the related printable page

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I'm basically a novice at creating web sites. I have done it before, but everything was done by "brute force" so to speak. This
time I'm trying to be at least a little bit smarter.

I have a web-page that uses a layout that will be standard throughout my site, but it is not a very printer-friendly layout. So, I
created a "printable format" link to a common "print.htm" page with the relevant content included.

Is there a way to automatically reuse that "print.htm" with the content from the source page?

For example, here is a "topic" page from my site that includes a "text" content page:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/admin/mail.htm

If you follow the "Printable Format" link, you'll arrive at the printable page for mail.htm. Do I have to create a separate
"_print" page for every topic, or is there some way to read the included "_text" page from the "topic" page where the user has
clicked "printable format" and automatically include that in the standard "print" page.

I hope that makes sense... it's still early here.

carl
 
You could do this using a server-side solution, such as ASP, however you can not do this using the
FP Include Page component.

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I'm basically a novice at creating web sites. I have done it before, but everything was done by
"brute force" so to speak. This time I'm trying to be at least a little bit smarter.

I have a web-page that uses a layout that will be standard throughout my site, but it is not a very
printer-friendly layout. So, I created a "printable format" link to a common "print.htm" page with
the relevant content included.

Is there a way to automatically reuse that "print.htm" with the content from the source page?

For example, here is a "topic" page from my site that includes a "text" content page:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/admin/mail.htm

If you follow the "Printable Format" link, you'll arrive at the printable page for mail.htm. Do I
have to create a separate "_print" page for every topic, or is there some way to read the included
"_text" page from the "topic" page where the user has clicked "printable format" and automatically
include that in the standard "print" page.

I hope that makes sense... it's still early here.

carl
 
Stefan B Rusynko said:
Do it in reverse
Create your content in printable pages (no nav, etc) as say pfilename.htm
Then include the printable page as rich content w/i your main pages (as say filename.htm)
- link from the main pages to the related printable page

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Click to expand...

I believe that is what I'm already doing to the best of my ability without using ASP automation.

This page is actually several pages of nested included content:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/admin/mail.htm

It is the top_bott page:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/tmpl/top_bott.htm

which includes the topic page:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/tmpl/topic.htm

which includes the text page:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/admin/mail_text.htm

And the printable format page is actually this print page:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/tmpl/print.htm

with the text page included.

Thanks for you replies.

carl
 
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