Email a form

[David Whitaker]

Looks like a lot of people are having issues with this. I have went to the
tip & faqs section for publisher and it really doesnt get into what I am
thinking about.

Is there a simple way to build a form and have it send the results of the
user like a lot of programs do. This is the first one where there are
limitations or stipulations requarding what your ISP uses.

No one can predict what program an ISP will use or upgrade to in the future.
I know that the Email Server Software I use does not support what publisher
uses and that is why I need a simple work around like 90% of the other
software manufactures use.

I dont want anyone to think that I am being a shrued about this, but when
you get stumped, what else does a person do?

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

Publisher has built in forms and supports them with FrontPage extensions.
You can use a template form or build one with the form controls in the
Insert menu.
On the submit button control you go to Properties to set the email address
the form results should go to.
For the need to know stuff about having a form on your Publisher site visit
http://www.publishermvps.com/Default.aspx?tabid=30

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

 

[Chris]

David,

What it's asking you is does the person you pay to host your site support
front page extensions. Some do and some do not. To support such extensions,
the web hosting service had to purchase software (sw) from microsoft (ms).
Some hosting services choose to not purchase the software and hence not allow
you to use a program that requires it. If you need to use ms sw, the only
thing you can do is switch to a different web host.

Cheers!

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

Incorrect.
Microsoft makes the FPSE available on microsoft.com as a free download.

Due to the wide spread popularity of FrontPage and also ASP.Net, the lack of
support for FPSE is (imo) suicide for a host provider.

But Publisher does have support for not using FPSE in the forms, it does
support using a host provided program, that takes more work and knowledge
though.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

 

[Chris]

David B.,

My mistake - I assumed that was the case and we all know where assumptions
get you. Thank you for the clarification.

Cheers

Incorrect.
Microsoft makes the FPSE available on microsoft.com as a free download.

Due to the wide spread popularity of FrontPage and also ASP.Net, the lack of
support for FPSE is (imo) suicide for a host provider.

But Publisher does have support for not using FPSE in the forms, it does
support using a host provided program, that takes more work and knowledge
though.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

David,

What it's asking you is does the person you pay to host your site support
front page extensions. Some do and some do not. To support such
extensions,
the web hosting service had to purchase software (sw) from microsoft (ms).
Some hosting services choose to not purchase the software and hence not
allow
you to use a program that requires it. If you need to use ms sw, the only
thing you can do is switch to a different web host.

Cheers!