               List of FrontPage WebBot Components

List of FrontPage WebBot Components

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.
