From: missy on
RONX!! OMG-- it worked! I have been publishing with dreamweaver, or
copying the file down with exploring, to by pass anything that dreamweaver
might have been causing.... I cannot believe- you have no idea how much time
I have spent on this, You have no idea how much you have helped me. Thank
you so much.
Missy

"Ronx" wrote:

> When working on a form page on your PC FrontPage will ALWAYS change the
> form action to _derived/nortbots.htm, if you intend the extensions to
> process the form. If some other page is to process the form, then in
> Form Properties, use Send to Other and enter the URL for the form
> handler. _derived/nortbots.htm is CORRECT for a form page on a disc
> based web when the form handler is the to be the FrontPage extensions.
>
> If you are using the extensions to process the form, then when you
> Publish the form page with FrontPage to a server running the FrontPage
> Extensions, the action will be automatically changed to the correct page
> for the server.
>
> Does your production server have FrontPage extensions installed? Are
> you Publishing to the server using FrontPage in HTTP mode? Are you
> changing the form action - if so, what are you changing it to? If you
> do change the form action, then FrontPage extensions will not be used to
> handle the form.
>
> --
> Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
> Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
>
> http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
>
>
>
>
> "missy" <missy(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:57916CCA-8568-454C-BB12-672413D7A4B8(a)microsoft.com:
>
> > All- I desperatley need help. My website is set up to use front page with
> > ms servers, but the editor i use most is dreamweaver becasue my site is set
> > up to use templates. (.dwt) which I mostly work in dreamweaver, but create my
> > new forms using the front page form genrator- I can get these working just
> > fine on my development server, but when posted to the live site it always
> > gives me the fp error agin. I have been through renaming the .csv file, or
> > text file, renaming the forms, putting them in different _private folders
> > etc, everyhting that ms tells me to try. It always never works. It always
> > gives an error. Also, once I pull the form back into fp after working on it
> > in dw- it rewrites the form code, to be _derived/norbots.htm, and then I have
> > to repaste the correct form code in again.
> >
> > I have a particualr form that I have just created completly from scratch, I
> > had this working writing to a text file, but changed it to csv file, and it
> > has broken again....
> >
> > Has anyone expirenced this issue? Is there any work around this? I have
> > done everything I can think of, even creating a new results file through fp,
> > and saving it as a csv file. Seems that something is causing my extensions
> > to break.
>
>