Frontpage Problems

[Guest]

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

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Just change and leave the file extension as .txt.

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[Guest]

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]

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

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[Guest]

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]

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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[Guest]

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

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

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

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

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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[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

Ok my mistake it just took a little longer then i had thought, it did work.
I guess i will see tomorrow if i need to "reset" it or not. Thanks

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

And you are storing the file in the _private folder correct?

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[Guest]

Your suggestion of changing the output to a .txt file did not work. This
morning the users in the offiec came to me and said that the form was not
working again. So i changed the output back to a .csv file and the form
worked properly. Thanks for your help.