Notice about this tutorial:
1) It presumes you already have a Discussion Web built.
2) That you can find your way around in HTML.
3) All screen shots are from Microsoft's FrontPage 2002.
4) This works on servers using the FrontPage 2002 or FrontPage 2000 extensions,
and should also work with FrontPage 98.
1) Open a new page, and insert a Textbox form.
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2) Go to your discussion web and open disc#_post.htm
file. Depending on the options you choose when setting this up, you may be able
to choose a subject and a reply to email address. If you did, right click in
these fields and choose "Form Field Properties..." then write down what
is in the "Name" field.
For the sake of this
tutorial we'll presume that the subject field has the name "subject" and that
the users email address field has the name "email".
3) Go back to the new page that has the Textbox you
made and right click on it and choose "Form Properties...", then click
the
tab (on
bottom left). This will open the "Saving Results" box. Click the E-mail Results
tab at the top. Then add your eMail address to the "E-Mail address to
receive results:" field. Choose what format you want your eMail sent in, make
sure the "Include field names check box is checked."
Then if you wish to add the form field names
from step 2, to their appropriate fields here. (To just receive an email, when
someone posts to your Discussion Web, you do not have to do this part).
Click "OK" until all pop up boxes are closed.
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4) Now click the
view in
FrontPage, and look for coding similar to this:
<form
method="POST"
action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" S-Email-Format="TEXT/PRE"
S-Email-Address="YourEmailAddressHere@somewhere.com" B-Email-Label-Fields="TRUE"
B-Email-ReplyTo-From-Field="TRUE" S-Email-ReplyTo="email"
B-Email-Subject-From-Field="TRUE" S-Email-Subject="subject" S-Builtin-Fields --><p>
<input type="text"
name="T1"
size="20"><input
type="submit"
value="Submit"
name="B1"><input
type="reset"
value="Reset"
name="B2"></p>
</form>
The only part you are going to need is found in the
green. So highlight this part:
S-Email-Format="TEXT/PRE" S-Email-Address="YourEmailAddressHere@somewhere.com" B-Email-Label-Fields="TRUE"
B-Email-ReplyTo-From-Field="TRUE" S-Email-ReplyTo="email"
B-Email-Subject-From-Field="TRUE" S-Email-Subject="subject"
And copy it for the next step.
----OR----
You can copy what is in one of the two text
boxes here. (Note that this is set to receive eMail in
text format).
- Use this one to receive just eMail, without
the subject line or reply to feature:
- Use this one to receive eMail with the
subject line or reply to feature:
Note in both of these,
remember to change "YourEmailAddressHere@somewhere.com",
to yours. In the later, change the "email" and "subject"
form names to the ones you wrote down in step 2.
5) Now go back to disc#_post.htm and click the
view in
FrontPage, and look for coding similar to this:
<form
method="POST"
action="--WEBBOT-SELF--"
target="_self"
onsubmit="return
FrontPage_Form1_Validator(this)" name="FrontPage_Form1">
<!--webbot bot="Discussion" s-dir-name="_disc1"
s-article-format="HTML/BR" u-style-url="disc1_post.htm" b-reverse-chronology="TRUE"
s-toc-fields="Subject From Date Time REMOTE_NAME" u-header-url="_borders/disc1_ahdr.htm"
u-footer-url="_borders/disc1_aftr.htm" s-date-format="%d %b %Y" s-time-format="%H:%M:%S"
s-builtin-fields="REMOTE_NAME Date Time" u-confirmation-url="disc1_cfrm.htm"
startspan --><input
TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP"
VALUE="0"><!--webbot
bot="Discussion" endspan i-checksum="43374" -->
Look for b-reverse-chronology="TRUE"
(it may say "FALSE" depending on what option you set for the order of the the
posts to show up). Paste the part from step 4 after
b-reverse-chronology="TRUE"
(Note: if you used what was in the text boxes in step 4,
and haven't changed it to match your info, you wont receive eMail).
6) Save
page, and test.
