Form was scrambled

[Mir]

An online survey created in FrontPage rearranged itself after a week or so.
Names and validation paramters switched among fields at random or just
disappeared. This has never happened before.
We had electrical storms that week. (We host our site on an in-house server.)
My questions:
Could this be caused by power fluctuations on the server?
Could it be the server software (SharePoint server)?
Is the form function more fragile than the rest of FrontPage? If not, should
I inspect the rest of the site for similar damage?
Thanks for whatever advice you can give me! -- Mir

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Could this be caused by power fluctuations on the server?

Yes, possibly, especially if there was a power interruption and files were
not closed properly. One or more files might have been corrupted.

Could it be the server software (SharePoint server)?

Same answer as above. Corrupted files could cause such a problem.

Is the form function more fragile than the rest of FrontPage? If not,
should
I inspect the rest of the site for similar damage?

FrontPage is not the problem. It's just an authoring tool. The HTML
documents and web sites it creates are no more FrontPage than a Word
document is Word.

That said, an HTML form is not a static document. It is posted to the server
where a server-side executable (most probably FrontPage server extensions in
your case) processes the input. However, from your description I can't tell
exactly what you're describing, whether it's the form page itself, or the
results it is saving. If the form page itself is not corrupted, the server
extensions may have been, as a result of an electrical failure. If so, they
can be repaired. If the form page has been corrupted, it can also be edited
to repair it.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP

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[Mir]

Thank you, Kevin. I'll ask our server administrator to re-install the FP
extensions. I have already corrected the form itself, which I had a backup
version of on my computer. It's working now. (I'm sorry I wasn't clear about
that.)
Thanks again -- Mir