FP97: Incorrect Confirmation Page if Submission Contains Feedback (187248)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows with Bonus Pack
This article was previously published under Q187248

For a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 version of this article, see 197402.
For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194054.

SYMPTOMS

If a confirmation page for a form submission contains a feedback form, the confirmation page will not be displayed. In other words, the confirmation page for the second form will appear in the Web browser rather than the confirmation page for the first form. You will not receive any error message. If both are configured to send the results in e-mail, two e-mail messages will be generated. The first will contain the properly filled out information; the second will contain no information.

CAUSE

FrontPage allows the same data to be sent to multiple files or e-mail recipients. It does this by stringing together one or more custom confirmation pages containing forms with the same field names. A side effect of this feature is that it does not allow you to fill out and submit a simple series of pages with different forms.

RESOLUTION

To submit a series of forms without generating intervening confirmation pages, you can redirect the form. Note that redirection does not work if your Web browser does not support it. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Start FrontPage Editor and perform the following steps:
    1. On the File menu, click New.
    2. Click Normal Page, and click OK.
    3. On the File menu, click Save As.
    4. In the "File path within your FrontPage Web" box, type redir1.htm and click OK.
  2. Insert a META tag by following these steps:
    1. On the File menu, click Page Properties, and then click the Custom tab.
    2. In the System Variable section, click Add.
    3. In the Name box, type refresh. In the Value box, type 0; url=[form page two] where [form page two] is the file name of the second page that contains a form. Click OK.
    4. On the File menu, click Save.
  3. Open the page containing the first form.
  4. Right-click the form, and click Form Properties on the menu that appears.
  5. Click Options.
  6. Click the Confirmation Page tab.
  7. In the URL Of Confirmation Page box, type redir1.htm.
  8. On the File menu, click Save.
NOTE: If you need to chain together a series of more than two forms, create a separate redirection and place it between each form page using the procedure described above.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

187249 FP98: How to Submit Form Results to Multiple Files, People

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:2/28/2002
Keywords:kbprb KB187248
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