Confirmation page

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http://www.oneilleb.com/solutions.htm. I have set up a page to have the
information emailed to me. That part works, as I receive the email. However
I am unable to have the confirmation page I created display, after hitting
the submit button. The page that is displayed shows all of form fields and
not the confirm page. When I tried to save the confirm page as an .asp
page(taken from other post answers), I am unable to publish as it appears
that the service we use (Yahoo) does not support. As I am a novice at this,
is there another way to have this displayed? I have tried the frontpage
help, but it tells me the following


"Open the page containing your form by double-clicking the file in the
Folder List.
Right-click the form, and then click Form Properties on the shortcut menu.
Click Options, and then click the Confirmation Page tab.
In the URL of confirmation page box, type the name and location of the
confirmation page you just created, or click Browse to locate it."

Problem is there is no option for Form Properties, just form field
properties, and there is no "Options" tab to select.

Thanks for any insight.
 
First, you have an empty form just above your main form. (It's HTML
leftovers, you should remove it)

Then you have this:

<form method=post
action="http://us.6.p2.webhosting.yahoo.com/forms?login=johnon02">

Which is NOT a FrontPage form posting, but rather something else. If you
are using FrontPage to edit the form and want the FrontPage confirmation
page, you need to use the frontpage components to submit the form, not
whatever the above is.

So your answer, "its not a frontpage form, that's why it doesnt work"
 
1. There's no closing </form> tag for your form.
It needs to go right after:
<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Submit Form" name="Submit"></a>
<INPUT TYPE=reset VALUE="Reset Form"> </p>

2. You've made the Submit button a hyperlink: <a
href="contactresponse.htm">
That's a no no because it won't work that way.

3. There's an extra set of form tags that are doing nothing:
<form action method="post">
</form>
They need to be deleted

After you make the corrections and add the closing form tag like this:
<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Submit Form" name="Submit"></a>
<INPUT TYPE=reset VALUE="Reset Form"> </p>
</form>

Form properties should display on the context menu when you right click.

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Thanks for the quick response.
The form posting I currently have in there is so the it will send the info
via email, and is what Yahoo had as a work around as supposedly they don't
support the FP forms for that. Is it possible to keep that and somehow edit
to display the confirm page?

Thanks
 
Unless you are using the FP Form Handler, you can not use the FP Custom Confirmation page/features.
You need to contact Yahoo on how to create a custom confirmation page with their Form Handler.

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This might be a silly question, but are you using the basic yahoo web hosting
(free) and does it have front page extensions enabled?

Dan
 
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