frontpage toc quirk

[robertmharrison]

Had a website running happily with FP2000 but upgraded to FP2003 today.

Used the standard TOC page from (I think) the Corporate Site Wizard and this
has been working fine.... but now it has had a brain seizure if some kind.
All the files are shown at one level and in no order that I can detect.

Suspicious thing is that if I uncheck the box that says "show pages with no
incoming hyperlinks " most pages disappear from the list.

The site works fine in terms of linking between pages and I am using the FP
navigation bars on all pages successfully, so the site must 'know; something
about its structure and pages must have linkages between them. The Navigation
view shows the structure I thought I had correctly.

The TOC page is an orphan at the Home Page level (at least thats how it
appears on the Navigation View) and links from a standard footer on each page.

So what has changed? It is driving me nuts!

Any help much appreciated ...

 

[Tina Clarke]

Had a website running happily with FP2000 but upgraded to FP2003 today.

Used the standard TOC page from (I think) the Corporate Site Wizard and this
has been working fine.... but now it has had a brain seizure if some kind.
All the files are shown at one level and in no order that I can detect.

Suspicious thing is that if I uncheck the box that says "show pages with no
incoming hyperlinks " most pages disappear from the list.

The site works fine in terms of linking between pages and I am using the FP
navigation bars on all pages successfully, so the site must 'know; something
about its structure and pages must have linkages between them. The Navigation
view shows the structure I thought I had correctly.

The TOC page is an orphan at the Home Page level (at least thats how it
appears on the Navigation View) and links from a standard footer on each page.

So what has changed? It is driving me nuts!

Try recalcuating hyperlinks from under the Tools menu with all pages closed.

Tina


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[robertmharrison]

Thanks for suggestion ... I have tried this on both sides of the publishing
process i.e. my XP machine and the remote site and it had no efect.

This is weird as my XP shows the TOC correctly indented etc, although the
last set of naming changes for a couple of files have not got through (not
the end of the world but anomolous behaviour). I renamed them in Navigation
view because my nav bar got too long and new names are OK on navigation but
not TOC, despite publishing site. On the remote site the TOC remains a
"random" list of file links.

Best Regards

Rob Harrison

 

[robertmharrison]

Don't know if this helps but there is a big difference between my XP and the
remote server ... if I change the TOC properties to suppress pages with no
incoming hyperlinks the remote server TOC drops to about 4 pages ... my XP
machine stays with all pages shown. I have tried to Recalculate Hyperlinks a
few times and it makes no difference.

Rob

 

[robertmharrison]

Finally got fed up and deleted all files on the remote server and started
again ... and problems have gone away. Think it may be something to do with
the fact the remote server cals the Home Page file index.html and FP calls it
index.htm as default. That's the only difference I can see and the
non-working version had both an index.htm and an index.html in the root
directory.

Anyway, site works and so does TOC!

Rob

 

[Tina Clarke]

Finally got fed up and deleted all files on the remote server and started
again ... and problems have gone away. Think it may be something to do with
the fact the remote server cals the Home Page file index.html and FP calls it
index.htm as default. That's the only difference I can see and the
non-working version had both an index.htm and an index.html in the root
directory.

Anyway, site works and so does TOC!

Rob

That was your problem they were calling from different pages.

make sure your homepage are the same ... since you have to have the file ext
the server host insists upon ... rename the one on your hd to match. (make
sure it's the homepage ) always back up your web before making changes)

Tina

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