List of FrontPage WebBot Components
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FrontPage components are built-in FrontPage objects that are evaluated and executed when an author saves a page or, in some cases, when a user browses to the page. FrontPage components generate HTML, or, in some cases, client-side or server-side script code. Using the FrontPage SDK (available on the FrontPage 98 CD-ROM) users can add their own FrontPage components.
Run-time components expand dynamically when the page containing the component is fetched by a browser, or for Form handler components when a form is submitted. This is similar to a CGI script running on the server. Authoring-time components expand only when the page is saved, and not when the page is fetched by a browser.
Component |
Type |
Purpose |
Banner Ad Manager |
Authoring-time |
Allows images to be automatically displayed and rotated in sequence. Users can click the images to follow a hyperlink. |
Comment |
Authoring-time |
Text that authors can view in the FrontPage Editor but that will not be displayed by a Web browser, similarly to "hidden text" in a word processor. Comment text appears purple in the FrontPage Editor and retains the character-size and other attributes of the current paragraph style. Comments are particularly useful for instructions embedded in templates. |
Confirmation Field |
Run-time |
Includes the values of fields in a form on the form's confirmation page. |
Default Form Handler (also called Save Results component) |
Run-time |
Appends the contents of a form to a file on the server in any of eight formats (suitable for importing into databases, feeding into a mail merge with Microsoft Word, viewing in a text editor, viewing in a web browser, etc.). This form handler can also be configured to e-mail the form's contents. |
Discussion |
Run-time |
Creates a threaded discussion group. |
Hit Counter |
Run-time |
Monitors and displays the number of visits a page has received. |
Hover Button |
Authoring-time |
A button on a Web page that contains an animation that is activated when the mouse moves over the button or is clicked on the button. |
Include page |
Authoring-time |
Replaced with the contents of a page in the FrontPage web. If the included page changes, it is re-included. Note that the Include Page component is not the same as a server-side include. Server-side includes dynamically include pages when the page is fetched. The Include Page Component only updates the included data when the page is saved. |
Insert HTML |
Authoring-time |
Allows the author to enter (and preserve) HTML tags. Useful for inserting tags that are not recognized by the FrontPage Editor. |
Marquee |
Authoring-time |
Creates a horizontal scrolling text window. |
Page Banner |
Authoring-time |
Creates a banner across the page with the page's title. Text or images are used, based on the FrontPage theme selected for the web. |
Registration |
Run-time |
Allows end-users to add themselves to the list of users permitted to browse a protected web by registering a username and password. |
Scheduled Image |
Authoring-time |
Similar to the Scheduled Include FrontPage component, except that only an image is included. |
Scheduled Include |
Authoring-time |
Similar to an Include Page component, but the inclusion is only effective during a specified time period, before and after which the inclusion is automatically disabled (or, optionally, a different page is included). |
Search |
Run-time |
Performs a full-text search over all pages in a web, or over all messages in a discussion group. |
Substitution |
Authoring-time |
Performs macro substitutions, allowing the values of data items (such as a company's address) to be centralized for easy updating. |
Table of contents |
Authoring-time |
Displays a complete outline of all pages in a web, and optionally updates that outline whenever any page is added, deleted, or renamed within the web. |
Timestamp |
Authoring-time |
Indicates when a page was last edited by an author or (optionally) when it was last automatically updated, in various date and time formats. |