Pulling Info

[Guest]

I maintain a site for a soccer club, and I want to redo it to allow the
office manager to post info on one site with FP2003, and then have my custom
built FP2003 site pull that info into the appropriate page. I do not want to
give access to my custom site and have the office manager mistakenly delete
or change any settings. What si the bast way to accomplish this? I would
like to continue to have the custom site built using Dynamic Web Templates.
Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[David Berry]

The best way is to use a database. Create a sub web (sub site) and give it
unique permissions from the root. Create a user name and password for your
office manager to use and give that user Author and Browse permissions to
the sub web. In the sub web you would have admin pages that the office
manager can fill out (forms) which will save the information to a database.
Then, on the main site you would pull in the information from the database
and display it on the page.

Another way to go, if you didn't want to use a database, would be to put
just the content (pages) that you want the office manager to alter into a
password protected sub web. Then they couldn't alter the pages on the main
site.

See

Password Protect Part of a Web: (Requires FrontPage extensions on
server, and host must support sub webs with unique permissions)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301554 (FP2000)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825451 (FP2003)

Protect individual pages: (Requires Windows Server with support for ASP
and Access database)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825498

For another sample of using a database and ASP See
http://www.kamath.com/tutorials/tut003_auth.asp

 

[Guest]

Thank you David. I'll play with the subwebs to see if it works as planned.