Server Extensions
Some components in FrontPage require that your server has
FrontPage Extensions installed. You will need to check with your
hosting service to see whether or not they have FrontPage
Extensions. If they don't, you can still use FrontPage and
FrontPage Web Templates to build your site, but you may not be
able to use all the features of FrontPage in your web site.
Servers may have:
- No FrontPage Extensions
- FrontPage 98 Extensions (few do, so we don't discuss it
here)
- FrontPage 2000 Extensions
- FrontPage 2002 Extensions
- FrontPage 2002 Extensions with SharePoint Team Services
(STS)
- Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
Below is a list of features that we've compiled from various
sources.
| Features |
None |
2000 ex. |
2002 ex.
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w/ STS |
w/ STS |
w/ WSS |
| Date/Time |
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| Comment |
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| Photo Gallery |
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| Substitution |
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| Include |
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| Themes |
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| External Web |
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| Navigation |
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| Page Banner |
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| Link Bar, Back/Next
(feature in FP2002) |
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| Link Bar, Custom
(feature in FP2002) |
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| FrontPage 2002 Text
Link Bar styles |
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| Top 10 Lists (feature
in FP2002) |
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| Save Form Results
(Email, File) |
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| Reports |
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| Search Form and Table
of Contents options for various template wizards |
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| User Registration
template |
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| Database Results |
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| Save Results to
Database |
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| Hit Counter |
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| Search Current Web |
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| Include Page Based on
Schedule |
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| Include Picture Based
on Schedule |
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| Table of Contents |
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| Table of Contents
template |
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| Visual InterDev
Navigation Bar |
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| Lists (SharePoint
feature) |
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| Document Libraries |
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| Discussion Board |
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| Survey |
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| Modify rules for
Document Libraries |
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| Rules customization in
the Document Libraries Wizard |
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| Data Source Catalog
task pane |
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| Data View Details task
pane |
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| Data View Conditional
Formatting |
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| Web Part Gallery task
pane |
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| Data Source Catalog |
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| XML Support |
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| Web Packages |
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| Export & Import Web
Packages |
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| Customize data views |
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| Data Source Details
view |
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| Data View Web part |
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| Data View styles |
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| Web Parts pages and
zones |
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| Remote Web Site view |
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| Connect to remote sites |
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| Publish to FTP and DAV
servers |
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| FrontPage-created image
maps |
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| Field Set |
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| File Upload |
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| Shared Border
background properties |
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| User Roles |
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| Usage Analysis Reports |
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What does this mean for me?
If you are using our products, here's a quick summary of what
this means for you if:
- You don't have FP extensions on your servers.
- You may use the template and/or theme and publish
using FTP. You will most likely be able to use most of
the features of the template, apart from any...
- Search forms, submit forms, or other types of forms
built to use the FrontPage webbot (You can create your
own form scripts and use them)
- Hit Counters, Reports, and other things that involve
"logging" information on the server
- You won't be able to publish "subwebs"
- See below for a tip on how to restrict your
FrontPage to features that will work for you.
- You have FP2000 extensions on your servers.
- The FrontPage 2002-specific "text style" link bars
will show up as FP2000 Theme or Text link bars
- You'll be able to use all FP2000 features in your
web site
- You'll be able to publish to subwebs
- You'll be able to use the forms, hit counters, etc.
- You have FP2002 extensions on your servers.
- You'll be able to do almost everything that FP2000
extensions allow you to do.
- You'll be able to use the FP2002-specific "text
style" link bars
- You'll be able to use all the FP2002 features,
specifically the Top 10 lists, Custom Link Bars, and
more.
Tip for using FP if your server doesn't have server
extensions
For FP2002: Open your web site. Go to Tools > Page
Options, and click the Compatibility tab. Uncheck the box that
says "enabled with Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions." This
will grey out the options in FrontPage that you cannot use
without FP Server Extensions.
For FP2003: Open your web site. Go to Tools > Page Options,
and click the Authoring tab. Check or uncheck the boxes under
"FrontPage and SharePoint technologies." This will grey out the
options in FrontPage that you cannot use.
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