-----Original Message-----
This sort of thing usually involves three main tasks.
1. Create a form that can upload files. To do this in
FrontPage, add a File Upload control to your forms
page, configure it to save files in the folder you
want, and configure the folder properties to permit
anonymous uploads.
2. Save the uploaded filename in the alum's database
record. Unfortunately, FrontPage can't receive
file uploads and update databases from the same form.
So instead, you'd have to configure the form to send
you mail, and then you'd have to update the database
records manually (using the Database Interface Wizard,
for example.)
Updating the database manually would also give you
the opportunity to review the pictures and move
the legitimate ones to a "safe" area. (Inevitably,
you're going to get a few pictures of clowns,
animals, and naked people, and you probably want
to double-check those before going "live".)
3. Modify your reporting pages to create <img> tags
if the alum's record contains a picture name.
If you're using the Database results Wizard, for
example, you need to create a custom query that
contains code like this:
SELECT IIf("" & [picname]<>"","<img src=""images/" &
[picname] & """>") AS pictag, ...
and then, in the finished Database Results Region,
configure the pictag Database Column Value
Properties as Column Value Contains HTML.
Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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-----Original Message-----
I have used the wizard and create a page that returns
queries, another allowing the user to enter records. I
now want to be able to have the user upload an image into
the database. I assume the best way is to have a button
to browse to locate, then upload.
I have an alumni site that really needs to have the
ability for the users to upload images, please help. I
have had several requests for this and I cannot figure out
how to do it, any help would be appreciated!
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