HOW TO: Send Form Results to a File Using FrontPage 2000 (304410)

SUMMARY

When you create a form in Microsoft FrontPage, you have several options by which to save the form results. When a visitor to your Web site fills out and submits the form, the data can be saved to a text file, an HTML file, an e-mail message, or directly to a database. This article explains how to save form results to a file.

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Send Form Results to a File

When you save form results to a file, the file that collects the results of the form is, by default, located in the hidden _private folder in your Web. You can specify a different location and change the file name as needed. You can select the format of the form-results file and specify whether to include field names in the form results. You can also specify a second file in which to save results. If the file that you specify does not exist, FrontPage will create it the first time that a visitor to your Web site fills out the form and submits the data.

1. Start FrontPage, and then open the page that contains your form.
2. In Page view, right-click the form, and then click Form Properties.
3. In the Form Properties dialog box, click Send to.
   
   A default file name and location for the results file are displayed in the File name box. You can specify a different file or location by typing the new name and location; or click Browse to locate the file that you want to use in your Web.
   
   If you want to use a different location for the file, select a location in your FrontPage Web. It is not recommended to specify a folder on your hard disk -- for example, C:\My Documents\form_results.txt -- because this location may not be accessible from the Web server.
4. Click Options, and then click the File Results tab.
5. In the File format box, select the file format of your form-results file.
   
   Note that text file formats are saved faster than HTML file formats.
6. Under Optional second file, you can specify a second file to contain form results. You may want to do this if you want to specify one results file for input to a database or spreadsheet and the other results file for readability.
   
   To specify a second form-results file, type a name and location in the File name box, or click Browse to locate the file that you want to use.
7. In the File format box, select the file format of your form-results file.
8. Click OK twice to close the Options for Saving Results of Form and Form Properties dialog boxes.

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