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Frontpage Form Wizard Tutorial
Monday, November 06, 2006
One of the easiest ways to create your user forms in FrontPage is to use the Form Page Wizard.The tutorial here is generated with FrontPage2000.
Start by opening your FrontPage 2000 program.
Now open one of your current webs for practice. Since we want to publish this form page to the web or your intranet, be sure to develop it in a publishable web.
Go to "File", "New", "Page"
Don't worry at this point about navigation to this page. Just leave everything else alone until we publish and then test the form.
Select "Form Page Wizard"
You will now see the Wizard window. Click "Next"
As you can see now, the window space is blank because we need to select questions. Click on "Add".
From this menu there are a number of selections you can make. Highlight "contact information" and click "Next".
Leave the default checks in place and in addition to these check "Home phone" and "Postal address" then click "Next".
Now click on Add again and select "personal information" leave the default checks in place and in addition, check "Height, Weight, Hair color and Eye color" then click "Next".
You will now see the "Presentation Options" page. Leave this as is and click "Next".
You will now see the "Output Option" page Check save results to a text file and click "Next".
Notice formrslt shows as the file name. FrontPage has just created this file and stored it in the _private folder for us.
Now click "Finish". The wizard will now produce the form on the current page.
Your form should now look like this....Our example here does not include the form border. Yours should show the dotted or dashed form border. This form is for appearances only. It has no form tags, so it doesn't submit.
Please provide the following contact information:
Name Date of Birth Sex Male Female Height Weight Hair Color Eye Color
Preview in browser and hit the submit button. In all likely hood you will see the following in your browser window. It should definitely appear if you use IE, but won't swear to it appearing in other browsers.
FrontPage Run-Time Component Page
You have submitted a form or followed a link to a page that requires a web server and the FrontPage Server Extensions to function properly.This form or other FrontPage component will work correctly if you publish this web to a web server that has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed.
Click the
This is not a bad message. It simply means your form needs to be published to a web server with Front Page extensions properly installed. In fact, to me this is a sign I actually built a form rather than a mucked up combination of form fields instead.
Our next step is to examine the form properties.
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