Frontpage include

include

[krikri]

I have a Frontpage site. There is a page which content change frequently. I have a secretary who can do the typing for me but she cannot use Frontpage. I want to link the page to to a text editor so that when she types and the page is saved, my web page is updated automatically.

I understand there is something in Frontpage called include or include files which can do that. Can someone show me?

Thanks.

[jimbeetle]

Not sure why your secretary can't use Frontpage. If she can use other text editors or something like Word it should be a breeze. Open the page, edit the text, save it. After a few handfuls of mistakes she should have the hang of it.

Barring that, let's talk about the include page function. It's usually used to include the body of an html page in certain areas of other web pages, normally for repetitive information such as navigation, header, footer, etc.

Now, the trick here is that this is normally an html page that would be edited from within Frontpage. When the include page is saved all the other pages where the page is included are updated, saved with the new version of the include page.

To use the include page function (at least on FP 2000) choose Insert > Component > Include Page.

But, your secretary can't use FP.

If you try to use the include page function on a non-html document FP will not accept it. However, I just played around with it and if you first include an html document, then manually change the code to the proper .txt file, FP will offer to convert the text to html.

So, you can include a text file in a Frontpage html page.

But, when I changed the copy in my text file and refreshed the html page, FP again offered to convert the text to html. I then tried changing the text file with the html page closed, reclaculated hyperlinks and, upon opening the html page it still had to convert the text.

If you can play around with this you might be able to come up with something that works. Note that I didn't take it far enough to see what's what with formatting, etc., so you might run into more roadblocks.

Best bet: Teach you secretary how to edit a page in FP.

Or, somebody might come along and tell us about some collaborative work features (are there any?) in more recent version of FP.

[ITScapegoat]

You can put an inline frame in, and that will display the contents of a text file. Upon clicking "Refresh" the page will display the updated contents of the text file. Below is a sample

<iframe src="c:\email.txt"></iframe>

Of course the path for your statement will reflect where your file actually is, and you'll need to play with where you want the inline frame to display on your page
-OR-
You can just display the txt file in an existing frame ( But I don't think this wroks in a table )

[thehittmann]

ummm yeah it will work in a table just the same as it would you just need to set more options for the frame
height width scrolling