Front Page 2003 Guestbook

[Shelley Myers]

Is there any way to modify what you submit in the guestbook. All I want to do
is have a Name and Entry box, where guests can just put their name if they
want or they can put both name and entry. I want to have seperate boxes and
have tried it and it doesnt work properly. Also I wanted to change how the
results are displayed, they go from the top - oldest comment to newest
comments at the bottom! I have found no way of modifying the guestbook
whatsoever! Can you help! Thanks in advance!!!!

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You have very limit flexibility in modify the guest book or discussion web components, You should
be able to just delete the fields that you don't want. You can change the order of the results under
the properties dialog, however it will not change the order of items already post, just any new ones
after the change has been made, and you will need to do this on the live/remote site, and then
publish back to your local machine.

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[Shelley Myers]

THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Barryjt]

Anyone know how I can delete comments from my guestbook?

 

[Ronx]

Open the online site in FrontPage

Open the guestlog.htm file (usually in the _private folder).

Edit the contents and save.

 

[Barryjt]

Thanks for that Ronx. I had tried that but when I open guestlog.htm there
is nothing there to edit although several entries have been made in my
guestbook. Some of the entries look "dodgy" so I need to delete them
urgently.
Any help appreciated.

 

[Andrew Murray]

That file is where the entries are stored; if there's nothing there, it
would mean no entries have been made to the Guestbook.

Can you show us the guestbook page? (provide a link), so we can see what
you're describing.

 

[Ronx]

You are opening the online web site (the site you publish to)? The copy
on your PC will always be empty.

As Andrew said, a link to the page may help, in case the guestbook posts
to a different page than normal.

The only effective ways to prevent dodgy posts is to not use the
FrontPage guestbook. Use a database application instead - this requires
server side scripting (asp, asp.NET, PHP - whatever your server
supports) and a database - mySQL, Access or Ms SQL Server.

Without the server side scripting the best you can do is rename the
guestbook at irregular intervals.
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[Barryjt]

Many thanks Ronx. I've sorted it now! I didn't realise I had to open the
page on my remote site. I've very new to Front Page and website design. I
will look into what you suggest as alternative guestbooks but I don't really
understand the jargon. We OAP's don't pick up stuff quite so easily.

 

[Barryjt]

Many thanks, Andrew. I've got it sorted now. See my reply to Ronx.