Search Field

[Aurora]

I am using FrontPage 2003
The gentleman who developed our Intranet has left the Company and I have
been assigned to keep it updated. The developer had a search field for
drawing numbers. When you pulled up the search field you could enter the
full drawing number or a part of it with a wild card and Frontpage brought up
a list of drawings that met the criteria set in the search field. Even though
the drawings were all saved in one directory in folders by Company's name.
Each company folder could contain anywhere from 1 drawing to 50 drawings.
For Ex; If I put 1778* in the search field, I would get a list similar to
the following:
1778534
1778555
1778635-C
1778925 etc. Each of these numbers would be a link to the drawing it
represents. Click on the number and the drawing you wanted would pop up.

Sorry to say, but something happened and this search field does not work. I
tried to re-create it using the Frontpage help, but no matter what I did,
when I entered a drawing number I only got a list of pages that it could be
found on. Can anyone help me recreate this search field? I really need some
help with this.

thank you - Aurora

 

[Ronx]

Sounds like the original search looked for file names. The FrontPage
search looks for words contained in pages, and displays links to those
pages.

To search for filenames requires server side scripting using whatever
technologies your host supports (PHP, ASP, asp.NET etc.)

Alternatively, if the server is Windows and supports asp, the filenames
could be placed in an Access (or other) database and the Database
Results Wizard used to get the filenames from the database.

 

[Aurora]

Ron:
Thank you for replying. Yes, I believe that we are using a windows server.
I remember seeing in, I think it was the "Private" directory of FrontPage, a
code that started with "vt-----". Would this be the scripting you are
talking about? This code was not there when I was notified that the Search
field was not working. Is there anyplace that I can learn how to re-create
this scripting?

Aurora

 

[Ronx]

You may be referring to a folder named _vti_cnf, or a file in that
folder. This is part of the FrontPage extensions. You should never
touch or edit any file or folder with a name starting with _vti_ since
the extensions tend to be delicate. These have nothing to do with the
search.

The existing script (if it is server side scripting) would most likely
be in a file with an extension of .asp or possibly .aspx.

You can follow the tutorials for ASP at http://www.w3schools.com in
particular the FileSystemObject, or search for suitable scripts.

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