Include Page - How does it work? (FP2003)

[392David]

Up until today I had assumed that when I used an included page that the
included page was stored on the server and that the FP server extensions
inserted the page when it was downloaded.

Today I made an update to my included page and published just changed pages
to a remote host. I then checked the remote site in IE and discovered that
the updates were not updated in the pages where my included page was used.

I then opened the remote site in FP and found that when I looked at one of
these pages and found it was not changed. I then found I could edit the
included portion of the page directly on the remote site without having to
open the include page in a separate window.

All of this causes me to conclude that pages are compiled when uploaded and
that FP has no automatic way of making sure all of the pages that include an
included paged get republished.

Is this correct? Do I handle this by always publishing all pages?

 

[Ronx]

IF you have a web open when you edit, the included page is added to
the pages when you save the included page. Publishing will upload all
the changed pages if publishing by FTP, or just the included page if
publishing to an extended site using HTTP when the pages in the web
will be updated during the "processing web updates" part of the
publish process. In both cases any other pages that were changed or
added would also be uploaded.

If you do not use the FrontPage Publish, or changed the include page
outside of FrontPage, or without opening the web, then the include
process would not happen.

If you optimise the HTML when publishing, then it is possible that the
included content webbot is removed with the optimisation (depends on
your optimisation settings). This would also prevent the updates
happening. Your statement "I then found I could edit the included
portion of the page directly on the remote site without having to open
the include page in a separate window." points to this.

 

[392David]

I have been using optimization recently. I did not notice this problem
before, when I didn't, so I will leave it off from now on and see if that
solves this issue.

Thanks