broken feedback form

[Steve Freeman - SuperRealtor]

I've broken my FrontPage 2000 feedback form. Previously, a submission
of http://www.freisco.com/Client01.htm
would send the user to Thanks.htm and would generate an email to me with
contents of:

****************************************************************************
***
MessageType: Purchasing
whorealtor: No
list01: No
finance: Undecided
time: None
Username: Damon Smithwick
UserEmail1: (e-mail address removed)
UserTel1:
ContactRequested:
Remote Name: 168.215.192.38
Remote User:
HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

Comments:

Recreational land. The cheaper the better. I'm looking for something over
the next 6-18 months. No rush, a good deal is more important.

-end email responder....

Now, I've monkeyed with changing the layout of the form. I wanted to
redesign the form and place the data capturing element of the Client01.htm
form inside the white box of
http://www.freisco.com/green.htm I did some "old" renaming and goofed
around and now I can't get the dang thing to send me a message or redirect
the "submitter" to the Thanks.htm page.

I looked in the FP2000 help and can't find the code for a right-click page
format. I am so goofed up I can barely concentrate. I do not use the
FP2000 Publish Web function, I use CuteFTP and send files individually. I
got lots of "prototype" files on my disk that I don't want to "send all" or
"send changed" that the publish web function will do. If I could just
"publish page x" that would be ok.

Here are two sections of the code that I think contains the problem. (No
other references that I can spot in the html that make sense to me, but I am
a novice. )

<form action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" method="POST" onSubmit="">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" startspan S-Email-Format="TEXT/PRE"
S-Email-Address="(e-mail address removed)" B-Email-Label-Fields="TRUE"
S-Builtin-Fields="REMOTE_NAME REMOTE_USER HTTP_USER_AGENT"
U-Confirmation-Url="http://www.freisco.com/thanks.htm"
--><strong>[FrontPage Save Results Component]</strong><!--webbot
bot="SaveResults" endspan -->
<p align="center"><b><i><font size="4" color="#FF0000">Client
Profile</font></i></b></p>
<p><font size="2"><b>What is your interest in real estate in Seymour /
Jackson County Indiana?</b></font></p>
<dl>


and to "close and submit the form" near the bottom, I have this code:


<dl>
<dd><font size="2"><input type="checkbox" name="ContactRequested"
value="ContactRequested">
Please contact me as soon as possible regarding this
matter.</font></dd>
</dl>
<p><input type="submit" value="Register"> <input type="reset"
value="Clear
Form">&nbsp;
Please read <b><i><font color="#FF0000">Client
Understanding</font></i></b>

below&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<b><a href="default.asp">Back to Login</a></b></p>


Any and all help would be tremendously appreciated!


Steve Freeman, REALTOR

 

[Steve Easton]

For one thing, the email needs to be sent to an email address / email account associated with the
domain hosting the form.
Such as (e-mail address removed)

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

I've broken my FrontPage 2000 feedback form. Previously, a submission
of http://www.freisco.com/Client01.htm
would send the user to Thanks.htm and would generate an email to me with
contents of:

****************************************************************************
***
MessageType: Purchasing
whorealtor: No
list01: No
finance: Undecided
time: None
Username: Damon Smithwick
UserEmail1: (e-mail address removed)
UserTel1:
ContactRequested:
Remote Name: 168.215.192.38
Remote User:
HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

Comments:

Recreational land. The cheaper the better. I'm looking for something over
the next 6-18 months. No rush, a good deal is more important.

-end email responder....

Now, I've monkeyed with changing the layout of the form. I wanted to
redesign the form and place the data capturing element of the Client01.htm
form inside the white box of
http://www.freisco.com/green.htm I did some "old" renaming and goofed
around and now I can't get the dang thing to send me a message or redirect
the "submitter" to the Thanks.htm page.

I looked in the FP2000 help and can't find the code for a right-click page
format. I am so goofed up I can barely concentrate. I do not use the
FP2000 Publish Web function, I use CuteFTP and send files individually. I
got lots of "prototype" files on my disk that I don't want to "send all" or
"send changed" that the publish web function will do. If I could just
"publish page x" that would be ok.

Here are two sections of the code that I think contains the problem. (No
other references that I can spot in the html that make sense to me, but I am
a novice. )

<form action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" method="POST" onSubmit="">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" startspan S-Email-Format="TEXT/PRE"
S-Email-Address="(e-mail address removed)" B-Email-Label-Fields="TRUE"
S-Builtin-Fields="REMOTE_NAME REMOTE_USER HTTP_USER_AGENT"
U-Confirmation-Url="http://www.freisco.com/thanks.htm"
--><strong>[FrontPage Save Results Component]</strong><!--webbot
bot="SaveResults" endspan -->
<p align="center"><b><i><font size="4" color="#FF0000">Client
Profile</font></i></b></p>
<p><font size="2"><b>What is your interest in real estate in Seymour /
Jackson County Indiana?</b></font></p>
<dl>


and to "close and submit the form" near the bottom, I have this code:


<dl>
<dd><font size="2"><input type="checkbox" name="ContactRequested"
value="ContactRequested">
Please contact me as soon as possible regarding this
matter.</font></dd>
</dl>
<p><input type="submit" value="Register"> <input type="reset"
value="Clear
Form">&nbsp;
Please read <b><i><font color="#FF0000">Client
Understanding</font></i></b>

below&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<b><a href="default.asp">Back to Login</a></b></p>


Any and all help would be tremendously appreciated!


Steve Freeman, REALTOR

 

[Steve Freeman - SuperRealtor]

Thanks Steve. I've been pounding on this a bit more today. Here is
some additional descriptive information about what I've done so far.
(I just copied my ISP support too)

I need to cure the server error message 404-file not found
I own FREISCO.COM
go to http://www.freisco.com/01green.htm
on "submit" I get the error with the url of :
http://www.freisco.com/_derived/nortbots.htm

Here is what I am doing/using. Front Page 2000
I am trying to create a Feedback form using FP2K templates for starters.
I've got a working draft of the desired form;
http://www.freisco.com/01green.htm. I right-click/select the form
properties - store results - send to email - (e-mail address removed).
Under "options" I select a confirmation page of
http://www.freisco.com/thanks.htm
I leave pretty much everything else alone, using the defaults (mostly
for html stuff). When I click OK.

I get the following Error Message in FP2K:
This form is being created on a Disk-Based Web or the FrontPage Server
Extensions have not been configured to send e-mail. Please direct your
system administrator or ISP to the instructions in "Setting up E-mail
Options on Windows" or "Setting Up E-mail Options on Unix" in the Server
Extensions Resource Kit. If you do not have the Server Extensions
Resource Kit, you can find it at
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/serk.
Would you like to remove the e-mail recipient? yes/no
--end

I select No and it keeps me as the email recipient; and the file goes
back to edit mode (normal). Next, I upload the file
(http://www.freisco.com/01green.htm) to the webserver account using
CuteFTP. I am not too inclined to use the "publish web" function in
FrontPage 2000; as I have scores of files of "experiments" on both my
machine here as well as on my webserver; and I don't want to goof up all
the other files on the webserver with a "publish" command generated by
me. (I don't want to publish all or publish changed files only. If my
fear is irrational or unfounded, please let me know too.)

Yesterday, before I started "experimenting" with my Client01.htm page
(recreated today as 01Green.htm), this form was working fine as it has
for years. (I've not mucked with this one for quite a long time.) If
memory serves, I believe I "published to web" to get this page to the
server, I think because a file with an extension of "shtml" got created
by FP2K and it could only be published/uploaded using FP2K "publish"
function. Also, if memory serves, I don't think I downloaded the
/wpp/serk solution mentioned in the error message, but maybe I did.

As a LAST RESORT and I am wondering how long I can tolerate it; as a
last resort I am wondering if I could use Nortons GO BACK and revert my
drive back to a time before I started mucking with this file; then send
the reverted/recovered file back up to my webserver. Would this work?

I hope there is someone out there that can help me.

Hopefully,
Steve

 

[Ronx]

The nortbots.htm only appears when one or more of the following happen:

1 You are testing the form on a disc based web
2 You Published/uploaded the page or web using FTP
3 You published the page or web to a server with no FP extensions, or the
extensions were broken when the page(s) were published.
4 You are using FP98 and have run into an error associated with FP98. (I
do not remember the details).

Either republish the web using FrontPage to HTTP publish, or open the web on
your server and Tools->Recalculate Hyperlinks.

Pages that use the FrontPage Extensions (Forms, Hit Counters, etc.) MUST be
published in HTTP mode. They will never work if uploaded using FTP.

 

[Steve Easton]

In addition to what Ronx posted:
1. You "Must" send the email to an account associated with the domain, such as (e-mail address removed) the
address (e-mail address removed) will not work.

2. Change the path to your confirmation file from an absolute path to a relative path. Just use
thanks.htm instead of http://www.freisco.com/thanks.htm


--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer