MAIL MERGE TYPE OF FUNCTIONALITY IN FRONTPAGE WHEN CREATING WEBPAG

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I want to create webpages. Each webpage I want to create is similar and I
want to put data from a database into each to make each unique. I want to do
what is known in Microsoft Word as a Mail Merge. Is there some way to do
something like this in Microsoft Frontpage?
 
No....but experiment with the Database results wizard. That might be the
closest thing.
 
What's the difference between what Gamn described and Dynamic Web Templates?
Or Shared Content? I'm asking because I need to do something like this.
 
You will need to learn server-side scripting. You need to check with your web host to see what is
supported.

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Oops, I meant "Included Content." So I'll rephrase: can what Gamn described
be done with Dynamic Web Templates or with Shared Content?
 
Included Content, shared borders and DWT's won't help. They are used to put
common content on all pages.
such as a heading, logo, menu, etc.
 
Dear Gamn,

YES YOU CAN DO THIS!...but don't do this in FrontPage unless absolutely
necessary...MS Word is your tool for a wordprocessing feat like this! All
you need to do is create a web page (you can use FrontPage to do this) as the
template document and then insert your merge fields where you want the data
to come from your database and it's done...not on your website but on the
mail merge doc!

Now, the question is...Do you want this to be a regular process done
dynamically on your website or is it to be a one-time or random process that
can be done manually in a mail merge doc.

For dynamic processes to be done on your website, you can format the Results
Page of a form in FrontPage to create this page and then configure the form
to save to the web page name (also configured dynamically) - this requires a
little scripting in addition to the regular FrontPage functions. I'm using
an earlier version of FP (2000), but later versions may have this feature
without additional scripting.

For manual processes, use MS Word and each html page will be a separate page
in the mail merge doc and you'll have to save each of the pages as a web page
file. Again, I'm using Word 2000, so the latest version may have these
features added to the Mail Merge process. For example, you can choose the
merge doc template as an html file and there may be a further feature to save
each page as a separate file.

Let me know if you need more help on this but I KNOW it can be done.
 
Thanks. Maybe what I want is different--parts of multiple pages to be
updatable without changing the whole pages. That's why I was relating to the
Word Mail Merge idea.
 
OK, in that case, DWT, shared borders and includes will help you - but the
way you described it as "mail merge" was where the confusion was.

Include Pages:
If you want a certain thing to be on all pages, then you create the main
page.

Then you create a separate page with the content you want included on the
other page.

Save both pages.

Go to Insert > Web Component > Include Page and browse to the file to be
included in the main page.

Click "Open" and OK out of all the dialogues.

The included page will appear within the main page.

Shared Borders
Shared borders can be turned on and off on what ever page you want.

Format > Shared Borders

Choose Left, Right, Top Bottom

Choose "Current Page" or "All Pages".

OK out of the dialogue


Dynamic Web Templates

These are more comlex; read up in the Help files on DWT's.
 
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