How do I submit a Publisher file directly to the host computer?

[Bill Cornette]

I do not want to post the Publisher web page to the web, but have it
self-contained on the host computer. How can Ihave the information entered
by the user submitted as a text file on the host computer?

 

[DavidF]

You can publish your site to a folder on your hard drive. If you are using
Pub 2003, File > Publish to the Web and choose a folder on your computer.
All the HTML output will be generated to that folder. Is that what you are
asking?

DavidF

 

[Bill Cornette]

Thanks. I think that this was helpful, and got me further down the line of
accomplishing what I want, but I followed your instruction, including
selecting Form Properties from the Command Button Properties Window and
selecting "Save the data in a file on my Web server" However, when I pushed
the "Submit" button on the Web page, I got an error message:

File not found
Firefox can't find the file at /C:/(directory where I put the web
page/--WEBBOT-SELF--.

When I use IE rather than Firefox, the same file name appears in the Address
window and I get:

The page cannot be displayed.

Any other suggestions?

Bill C.

 

[DavidF]

Bill,

I am still not sure what you are trying to do, or why, but here are a couple
points of clarification. First of all forms in Publisher are dependent upon
Front Page Extensions on a web host server, and so I don't expect you will
have much luck trying to get them to work on a local hard drive. You must
also publish using HTML to the web host in order to get forms to work.

Secondly, Pub 2003 is designed to work best with IE and has limited cross
browser support. You will probably find that more complicated pages will not
load well in FireFox.

If you come back with a better explanation of what you are trying to
accomplish, perhaps someone here can help or make better suggestions, but
right now it is still as clear as mud to me ;-)

DavidF

 

[Bill Cornette]

Sorry about the confusion. What I want to do is create a set of linked pages
that allow a user to input information that will then be processed by a
program on the user's machine. Publisher seemed to have everything (except
how to send the text fields to a file) -- hyperlinking with text boxes to
input information with pages to provide the user with context for the
information (e.g., labels) and with help menus. However, I do not want to
use the web to do this -- or at least I don't think I do, since I do not want
the information sent to me, but to the user for use with a program that the
user has on their machine --- and there are multiple users with multiple
machines. I want to deliver this set of pages with the program.

The user will log onto a particular machine, initiate the main GUI page,
hyperlink to the appropriate pages, submit the information in the text boxes,
the submit the information to a file on the same computer and run the program.

I hope this makes things a little clearer -- and if something else will do
this job easier/better, suggestions are welcome.

Bill C.

 

[David Bartosik]

Ideally you'd develop your own application. Short of that solution though
Microsoft Access can be customized with VBA/VSTO to afford such a solution.
Another possible avenue you might review is Microsoft InfoPath -
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010857921033.aspx

Publisher is certainly an incorrect solution for your intent.