How do I delete guest book entries?

[Michael A. Roberts]

I have been reading past posts about how to delete guest book entries and I'm
still not quite figuring it all out. I'm opening the site live in Front Page
(I think!). The only problem is I cannot delete just one item. The cursor
turns into a hand holding a page and it wants to delete EVERYTHING. How do I
stop this?

When replying, please do not worry about offending me with detailed
answers!!! It seems as though the posts that I have been reading were
written will word economy in mind!! I would rather read too much than too
little!

Thanks

 

[Ronx]

Open the live site - File->Open Site (or Open Web) and click on
Network Places, then click your domain and Open.

Log in

Expand the _private folder

Make a copy of guestlog.htm - just in case. Click on guestlog.htm,
then ctrl+c, then ctrl+v to paste a copy.

Open guestlog.htm for editing.

Remove the rubbish - be very careful not to remove any webbots,
especially
(in code view)
<!--webbot BOT="FormInsertHere" -->
since this marks where the next post is to go. Also keep any
horizontal rules.

In Design or Normal view, it is usually safe to delete everything
between the horizontal rules, but be careful with the first and last
entries, where the webbots will be.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

If you would like to remove any posted results from the page, open
Guestlog.htm, select the entry that you want to remove, and then delete it.
Do not delete Form Results Inserted Here. If you delete that line, the guest
book does not work. After you make changes, save the page.

 

[Michael A. Roberts]

Thanks for the info. I got the negative stuff deleted. I'll tell you what I
did manage to do however. Now the entries to the guest book cannot be viewed
from the site.

When I first created the form, if you reloaded the page like it says, you
would see what you had just posted. Now, it goes to the guestlog.htm file
BUT you cannot see it online.

The have the guest book file titled Guest Book. How do I make the
connection between the guestlog.htm file and the the Guest Book file?

 

[Michael A. Roberts]

MAN OH MAN!!!!! I know just what I did!!!!! You SPECIFICALLY said not to do
anything to the webbots and that is exactly what I managed to do!!!!! What
an idiot!!

How do I reinsert that. Many thanks for your help!!

 

[Ronx]

The easiest way is to restore that copy you made of the guestlog.htm
and start over. You did make that copy?
Otherwise ...
The webbot that inserts the form is
<!--webbot BOT="FormInsertHere" -->
which must be typed into the correct place in code view.
There are other HTML tags that may need to be added, but that depends
on the layout you have selected for the guestbook.
Take a look at www.rxs-enterprises.org/commentary.htm and view source
in the browser (do not use FrontPage, this will hide the code.) This
page has most of the possible layouts for a guestbook, and you may
find the missing tags there. Look for
</form>
<!--webbot bot="Include" tag="BODY"
u-include="_private/guestlog.htm" --> in the source, this is where
guestlog.htm is included.