Front Page problems

[questar]

Our site's been up & running (powweb) over a month. I used Dreamweaver to create and to maintain it. Works fine.

Problem is I need to create an input form once in a while. Dreamweaver won't do that for me. I'm not familiar with writing / using "scripts" someone suggested FrontPage.

I create a form & confirmation page using FP2000. Seemed to work well. The form supposed to take the information, create log file, give user confirmation page, e-mail the input data to me.

FP extensions were selected for our site (& even re-installed). FP successfully published the files to my site (put files into a folder titled "Forms") but I did not link them into the active portion of the site yet. When I go to the form: http://www.barriegunclub.org/Forms/ppc_clinic.htm
I can enter the data, but when I submit I get a message that seems to indicate that FP extensions aren't there. Obviously something is wrong but I have no idea what I've done wrong or left out.

Anyone help?

[SimCoWeb]

The FP webbot is not configured correctly. Looking at the page you can see the label for the web bot 'Front Page web bot component' just above your form input area.

If you created this form in FP and then imported it into Dreamweaver then it won't work correctly since DW doesn't recognize FP web bots. Looking at the source code it appears as though it was cut and pasted into another document (possibly DW?) since there are some errant characters in the form's HTML.

Is this the case?

[questar]

Thinking back on the history of the form it is possible that what you describe did happen. The form was first created by a friend of mine who suggested using FP. I might have viewed it and used DW to view and modify it (can't remember now).

Let me take the original FP created page (from my friends server) and import it into my FP then republish to my site. I'll see if that fixes the problem.... and thanks for the help.

Mark

[SimCoWeb]

I'd seriously caution you on doing that for it MAY hurt some of your other functions having to do with DW. I don't know for sure, but it could be a major possibility.

What I would suggest is skipping the FP extensions all together and use the form you have but modify it to work with a CGI script instead. I think in the long run it will work better for you and you won't have these conflicts.

Powweb offers a form mail script to parse your form info and email. You can get the info on it in your ops center or FAQ's.