Authorization Forms

[Karen]

I just started using FrontPage 2003. I created security forms for upper
management to fill out for their personnel. I put the forms out on a web site
as a htm. The user fills out the fields in the form, clicks a submit button,
the form is submitted to my email address (thru the .asp file). For audit
purposes I need to have the user electronic signature.

My questions are:
1. In WordPerfect when you select the send to mail recipient option it opens
the user email application and attaches the document as an attachment.
Is there any way in FrontPage to do this?

2. I try the form properties, but received this message: this form cannot be
configured to send results via e-mail. The Web site may be located at
disk-based location, or on a server that has not been configured to send
email.

How do I set this up?

I need all the help I can get.
Thanks Karen

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

1. Unfortunately no. FP cannot do this. You would have to use a custom
server-side script to do it. It is possible though, but tricky as you have
to create an empty document of some type in memory on the server, such as a
text file, create an email and then stream the document that's in memory and
contains the form values as an attachment to the email. This WordPerfect way
won't work in a web environment, partly because HTML doesn't have provisions
for this, but also partly because it would be a major security issue as
developers could pass all sorts of interesting viruses off to an email
application.

2. Try publishing the web site, then opening up the published version (by
going to File | Open Web and entering in the URL you normally publish to).
You should be able to set the properties there easier. FP is complaining
because you probably aren't working against a web server, and the email
functionality requires one in order to work.

 

[Karen]

I just started using FrontPage 2003. I created security forms for upper
management to fill out for their personnel. I put the forms out on a web site
as a htm. The user fills out the fields in the form, clicks a submit button,
the form is submitted to my email address (thru the .asp file). For audit
purposes I need to have the user electronic signature.

My questions are:
1. In WordPerfect when you select the send to mail recipient option it opens
the user email application and attaches the document as an attachment.
Is there any way in FrontPage to do this?

2. I try the form properties, but received this message: this form cannot be
configured to send results via e-mail. The Web site may be located at
disk-based location, or on a server that has not been configured to send
email.

How do I set this up?

I need all the help I can get.
Thanks Karen

Thanks
1. Do you know where I can get step by step instructions on creating a
server-side script?

 

[Tom Miller]

Thanks
1. Do you know where I can get step by step instructions on creating a
server-side script?

No, its not a cook-book proposition. You have to learn Html, ASP or Php or
Asp .net well enough to code your solution or you need to hire a web
developer to do your server-side development. If you have done any advanced
Javascript then you have some idea of what your trying to learn how to do.

FP offers some "wizards" who try to hide server-side scripting for database
access but I am not aware of any wizards that do what your trying to do.