Ron,
Thanks for taking the time to take a wack at this problem but it does not
seem to have a simple fix. In response to the posible causes, I am publishing
http to a server on a comercial host that has the MS extensions installed and
I am using FP2003, not 98. Let me briefly highlight the major points that may
help you think of something.
1. All search functions do not work, both on the "ACME" search on the home
page and the search within discussion forums where people can search posted
comments.
2. It use to work when I had a 2002FP web but died sometime after. When I
deleated my 2003 web and reloaded the 2002, that originally did work, - it
also no longer works
3.the nortbots that the tech was refering to is found in a folder on my web
called _derived and nortbots is in it. this is not the case for the _derived
folder with the student discussion forms I have.
4. I have, uninstalled and reinstalled the extensions. deleated and reloaded
by http the web, recalculated links both locally and on the server.
5. When I run a component problem report for the version on the server, both
the global "ACME" search page and the discussion formum pages that end in
srch.htm (example: VM170content_srch.htm- where VM170 is the name of the
forum) say (contains an unknown frontpage component "Search"). So FP sees a
problem with all the search pages. The code for one of the pages that it
cannot see "search" is copied below
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title>VM170 Search Form</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="none, default">
</head>
<body >
<h3><tt>SEARCH FOR ARTICLE</tt></h3>
<p>Find articles posted to this discussion
containing matching words or patterns.</p>
<!--webbot bot="Search" s-index="_vm170content" s-dsn="default"
s-fields="DocumentK,TimeStamp,Weight"
TAG="BODY"
S-Text="Search for:"
I-Size="20"
S-Submit="Start Search"
S-Clear="Reset" b-useindexserver="0"
-->
</body>
</html>
6. the report analysis for problems with unlinked files did not return
anything, BUT, the hyperlink report showed that all the post files (example:
VM170content_post.htm in the same folders as the above _srch.htm files that
showed up as component errors) have broken hyperlinks that are not fixed by
recalculating the links. The code for this page is below:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title>VM170 Submission Form</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="none, default">
</head>
<body >
<h3><tt>POST ARTICLE</tt></h3>
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" onSubmit="return
FrontPage_Form1_Validator(this)" language="JavaScript" name="FrontPage_Form1">
<!--webbot bot="Discussion" s-dir-name="_vm170content"
s-article-format="HTML/BR"
u-header-url="../../../../_borders/vm170content_ahdr.htm"
u-footer-url="../../../../_borders/vm170content_aftr.htm"
s-toc-fields="Subject From Date Time"
b-reverse-chronology="TRUE"
u-confirmation-url="vm170content_cfrm.htm"
s-builtin-fields="Date Time"
s-date-format="%d %b %Y"
s-time-format="%I:%M %p %Z"
u-style-url="vm170content_post.htm" startspan --><input TYPE="hidden"
NAME="VTI-GROUP" VALUE="0"><!--webbot bot="Discussion" endspan
i-checksum="43374" -->
<p>
<strong>Subject:</strong><br>
<!--webbot bot="Validation" b-value-required="TRUE" --><input
name="Subject" size="35"> <br>
<strong>From:</strong><br>
<input type="TEXT" name="From" size="35"> <font color="#FF0000">Use the
same
pseudo-name (e.g. batman) each time that you send or reply to an
article</font><br>
<strong>Category:</strong><br>
<select name="Category">
<option selected>Category 1
<option>Category 2
<option>Category 3
<option>Category 4
<option>Category 5
</select>
Not Activated<!--webbot bot="PurpleText"
preview="Customize these drop-down menu selections." --> <br>
<strong>Comments:</strong><br>
<textarea name="Comments" rows="6" cols="61"></textarea> <br>
<input type="SUBMIT" value="Post Article"> <input
type="RESET" value="Reset Form"> </p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Thats about all I can figure give you. Hope this helps. If nothing more I
need to know if this is a FP problem or on the server side. THANKS a million
for all your help
Joanne
