Adding changing information to a FP website

[Allen]

I run a theatre company where we put bios of our performers on our website.
However, as time passes (meaning kids age and stage experience grows) for our
actors, I would like to be able to update one "page" (i.e. picture and bio
file) for an individual actor and have those changes realized in the cast
pages for each of the show(s) for which that actor was in. For example,
maybe Sam was in both Play A and Play B...his bio would show up on the cast
pages for both shows...however, next year, he's in Play C--when I change his
bio to reflect his new age and his additional show credits, I want those
changes to automatically populate onto the other two pages too. I guess my
question is, can multiple files be displayed into a single page using FP 2003
features?

 

[Trevor Lawrence]

I run a theatre company where we put bios of our performers on our website.
However, as time passes (meaning kids age and stage experience grows) for
our
actors, I would like to be able to update one "page" (i.e. picture and bio
file) for an individual actor and have those changes realized in the cast
pages for each of the show(s) for which that actor was in. For example,
maybe Sam was in both Play A and Play B...his bio would show up on the
cast
pages for both shows...however, next year, he's in Play C--when I change
his
bio to reflect his new age and his additional show credits, I want those
changes to automatically populate onto the other two pages too. I guess
my
question is, can multiple files be displayed into a single page using FP
2003
features?

You can use an FP include which runs on the client, i.e. it does not use
serverside include. When published using FP, this will generate code such as

<!--webbot bot="Include" U-Include="header.html" TAG="BODY" startspan -->

The code in here is the contents of "header.html"

<!--webbot bot="Include" i-checksum="52568" endspan -->

You need to add the include to every page where the other file (e.g
"header.html") is included, but when you change this file, republishing will
include the new content.