Scheduling Automatic Publication

[Rob Meade]

Hi all,

At work (NHS in the UK) we have various webmasters who use Frontpage to
develop their websites. For all of our intranet sites this is fine, for our
internet site, because of limitations on accounts with our host, we have
them all publish their websites to a local server, then once a week on a
friday one of us publishes from there through to our live www server.

What we would like to do is automate this task - it takes time, and is
frustrating to have to sit and watch for all of the "yes"/"yes to
all"/"no"/"no to all"/"cancel" messages - time consuming and annoying...so -
my question - is it possible to schedule frontpage to automatically publish
from one location to another and always do the yes to all etc - I assume
this would need to be a seperate add-in or perhaps a seperate program.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards

Rob

PS: Sorry for the cross post - tried to keep it to the groups I suspected
people might know an answer in etc..

 

[Fritz MVP Frontpage]

For me experience that is not possible due to
the security login and password web access
(passing through iE) of the Frontpage publication
method.
Maybe an otherwise "Full-FTP-downloading"
method with another FTP software that copy
ALL and complete the local published web
(that in local alredy work) to an web server
destination....
I could that can successful working.
Ciao,

 

[Rob Meade]

...

Maybe an otherwise "Full-FTP-downloading"
method with another FTP software that copy
ALL and complete the local published web
(that in local alredy work) to an web server
destination....
I could that can successful working.

Normal FTP wont work for Frontpage files as unless its published via
frontpage things like the navigation and so forth seem to be lost.

Regards

Rob

 

[Fritz MVP Frontpage]

| Normal FTP wont work for Frontpage files as unless its published via

| frontpage things like the navigation and so forth seem to be lost.

Of course; after the global copy each web to will open and
the "recalculate" procedure manually to launch. The publication
time is shorter as the normal single web publication.

 

[Rob Meade]

...

Of course; after the global copy each web to will open and
the "recalculate" procedure manually to launch. The publication
time is shorter as the normal single web publication.

Hi Fritz,

Sorry, I couldnt quite get the gist of what you meant, are you saying that
you can use a normal FTP client to copy across ALL directories in a
Frontpage web(with subwebs)? I was under the impression that Frontpage did
something 'special' whilst publishing, hence the _vti directories and so
forth....

We did try something similar before where we copied the directories to
another disc, and then later back again - but all of the navigation etc was
lost...

Any info appreciated,

Regards

Rob

 

[Fritz MVP Frontpage]

Preconditioned my no previous experience
in such multi-publishing method, the _vti
directories are from the "recalculate"
procedure rebuilded/reindexed (it'a also possible
to launch from the online server extensions
administration console the "repair" procedure
that also maybe errors or absent in Frontpage
integrated script/procedures repair/new create).
If beforehand the webs are correctly in the
host server create and the multi-publishing
mode the same identic domines comprised,
I think should work. Which for a FTP software
You can utilise for the copying I'm at a loss.
Best regards,

 

[Fritz MVP Frontpage]

Why do you not use the SUBWEBS system?
You can charge in a principal web your administrator
site and all webs of your clients in subwebs for
this top domine.
In act of the publication you can give the flag on
"also all subwews" and so are all reneved.

 

[Rob Meade]

...

Why do you not use the SUBWEBS system?

We do.

In act of the publication you can give the flag on
"also all subwews" and so are all reneved.

Yep -thats what we do - but we still get asked when it goes through the
sub-webs about 'yes to all' and so forth..

Regards

Rob