Collaborating with FrontPage

When collaborating on web pages using FrontPage, you may want to set up users to access certain parts of your website by setting up subwebs. This enables you to give permission to users to only access certain areas of your web, not your entire web.

However, those you give permission to will need to use the Open Web option differently than you normally would in order to access specific directories or folders in your web.  If you simply go to File, Open Web, the user logging in will not have the appropriate rights to access the subweb you granted permission to.

Follow the instructions below to open the subweb and login correctly.

There are different workarounds:

• Open your web browser - Type in the URL that you want to open (ex.  www.wesleyan.edu)

• After the pages opens click on File, "edit with Microsoft FrontPage".
• FrontPage will open and prompt you for a username and password.
• You can now edit the page.
• You should be able to use FrontPage and Open Web for any other edits.

OR

• Click on the Start button - Run - Then type in                              (ex.  frontpg.exe http://www.wesleyan.edu/department  or frontpg.exe http://condor.wesleyan.edu/username). FrontPage will open to your Web and prompt you to login.

• If you can get the Win2K Frontpage to show Web Folders when you do Open Web, then we know how to get to the subweb.
• In some machines, for some reason, we cannot seem to see that Web Folder.
• So, I am attaching the export of the Registry Entry that defines the Web Folder.
• Run regedit from the Start Menu/Run.
• Do a File Import and point it to the reg file attached. Please take all the precautions associated with monkeying with the registry files (I didn't bother!!!) so you don't get a chance to blame me.
• Close the regedit and fire up FrontPage.
• When you do an Open Web the first time, you are most likely to not see the web folders.
• Open a web connection to your own top level web. http://condor.wesleyan.edu/username.
• Once one of these webs is successfully open, you should see Web Folders show up on subsequent Open Webs.
• If it does, we are in great shape. If not, we are back to square one.
• If you wish to get access to a deeply buried subweb, then do an Open Web and get to Web Folders (Under My Computer) if it is not there. Then click on the New folder icon and type in the long URL and you should see an authentication screen with the full URL.