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Hi all...
Great newsgroup...very appreciative of the fast and
knowledgeable response here.
I had mentioned in other msgs that I've been developing
my website on my local hard drive, and then publishing
it to the remote location. Reasoning:
-- I don't have constant broadband access.
-- I'm nervous about website hacking, and use FP's publish
feature as a write-only channel.
However, I discovered yesterday that emailing from
forms doesn't seem to work unless I set form props
on the copy of the page resident at the remote location.
It seems that there's some mysterious handshaking
between the page containing the form and the
remote website infrastructure, that occurs only when
you're editing pages that are resident at the remote location.
This has made me want to get the mystical list of
all the other gotchas resulting from developing locally
and then publishing remotely.
I've spent many, many hours zooming around and banging my head
on the walls of the MSDN Library, but haven't found an actual
MS-tech document on the pros&cons of each approach.
Of course I'd be grateful to sit at the feet of the masters
in this group and hear comments, but can anyone point me
at formal documentation (or even articles) on:
-- Strategies, pros&cons, and work-arounds for developing
local vs remote?
-- Point me at a technical description of exactly _what_
FP2003 does to maintain the coherency of a website
(such file matching and hyperlink recalculation) and
handshaking for forms, and other features that seem
to require working remotely?
I might also say at this point that I'm _really_ unhappy about
the quality of the MS FP2003 Help feature.
Regards,
MVSmith
Great newsgroup...very appreciative of the fast and
knowledgeable response here.
I had mentioned in other msgs that I've been developing
my website on my local hard drive, and then publishing
it to the remote location. Reasoning:
-- I don't have constant broadband access.
-- I'm nervous about website hacking, and use FP's publish
feature as a write-only channel.
However, I discovered yesterday that emailing from
forms doesn't seem to work unless I set form props
on the copy of the page resident at the remote location.
It seems that there's some mysterious handshaking
between the page containing the form and the
remote website infrastructure, that occurs only when
you're editing pages that are resident at the remote location.
This has made me want to get the mystical list of
all the other gotchas resulting from developing locally
and then publishing remotely.
I've spent many, many hours zooming around and banging my head
on the walls of the MSDN Library, but haven't found an actual
MS-tech document on the pros&cons of each approach.
Of course I'd be grateful to sit at the feet of the masters
in this group and hear comments, but can anyone point me
at formal documentation (or even articles) on:
-- Strategies, pros&cons, and work-arounds for developing
local vs remote?
-- Point me at a technical description of exactly _what_
FP2003 does to maintain the coherency of a website
(such file matching and hyperlink recalculation) and
handshaking for forms, and other features that seem
to require working remotely?
I might also say at this point that I'm _really_ unhappy about
the quality of the MS FP2003 Help feature.
Regards,
MVSmith