Form Properties, Publishing a Forms Page

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ChrisJ

I have have created a Forms Page (FP2003) taken the steps through Forms
Properties and renamed the page with a .asp suffix, as instructed. I have
hyperlinked the HomePage.htm to the FormsPage.asp. I have FTP-ed my Home Page
and Forms Page to my domain. When I select the link, it takes me to the
FormsPage.asp, but says Page Cannot Be Displayed. I double-checked the
hyperlink re-uploaded the pages. Same result. I renamed the page to
FormsPage.htm, re-uploaded the pages. I selected the FormsPage link, from the
Home Page, and it took me to FormsPage.htm and displayed the page, as it
should. So am I getting the FormsPage.htm , but when it's named
FormsPage.asp, it shows Page Cannot Be Displayed?
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

You can not use the FP Form Handler on a .asp page, also in order to use any FP function that
requires the FP run-time extensions, the site must be published to a server that has the FP
extensions via FP's http mode, not via FTP will corrupt the extensions if they are installed on the
remote server.

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Andrew Murray

The frontpage form handler doesn't use ASP, it requires the page with the form to
have an htm extension.
 
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ChrisJ

Thank you for the information. I thought, in order for a Form Page to work
with a database, such as MSAccess, it must be an .asp page. Can you enlighten
me? Thanks.
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

In order to use forms with the FP database component, the form must have a .asp extension which then
bypasses the FP Form Handler.

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Thomas A. Rowe

That is not the FP form handler, that is the FP Form dialog for managing forms, which can be set to
use the FP Form handler (by entering a email address or writing to a file), or Send to Database
(ASP) or Send to Other, (Custom Written Form Handler, such as would be written in CGI, ASP, Perl,
etc.)

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Thomas A. Rowe

When you select to Send to Database and rename the form with a .asp extensions, the form will not
use the FP Form Handler to write to the database, it use ASP/VBScript.

The FP Form Handler can only process forms that have a .htm(l) extension,

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Thomas A. Rowe

Correct.

The FP Form handler can not work with any page using server-side scripting, such as ASP. PHP, Perl,
etc.

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