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I am very new to Front Page. I have developed a form in
Access and would like to publish on my companies
Intranet. I would also like to have a button that will
email the form with the data on it to me. Any help would
be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any advise!!
Jessica
The Windows-based forms that Access uses and the HTML-
based forms that FrontPage uses are so different that you
really can't convert from one to another. So, to create a
Web version of your Access form, you'll have to start from
scratch.
Typically, you first create the HTML form in FrontPage,
then right-click it, choose Form Properties, and configure
the resulting dialog box to save the input as you want.
There are options to save the form data in a file, send it
as e-mail, or save it in a database.
Unfortunately, if you want to save the data in a database,
you can't also send it as mail or save it in a file. It's
an either/or sort of thing.
There are some very convoluted schemes for tricking
FrontPage into saving the same data in a database and
sending it as mail, but if you really need this, I think
it's easier to write your own ASP code. To see what's
involved, consult these articles.
Mailing Form Data
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=46
Saving Form Data in a Database
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=44
Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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