amber
Thu Jan 15 17:44:22 CST 2004
Thanks for the quick reply. :)
This sounds like what I'm looking for...but am I able to
password protect different pages/areas of the web site?
I was hoping to have users only able to access their
page...but no others.
Is this an option in FP 2003??
amber
>>Hello,
>
>Howdy.
>
>>I was told that a new feature of FP 2003 is a method of
>>providing the ability to have different users (with
>>passwords I assume) update different areas of a
website,
>>but not be allowed to edit other areas, or alter the
>>layout etc.
>>I am fairly familiar with Frontpage 2000, but I'm
having
>>no luck whatsover finding what I need here.
>>Could someone point me in the right directions...or
maybe
>>direct me to web site that could help??
>>I have searched...but obviously I'm not using the
correct
>>terminology.
>
>This refers to a feature called Check-In / Check-Out.
With
>this feature in effect, anyone who wants to edit must
>first take ownership of it, and no one else can update
the
>file until the first person has relinquished ownership.
>
>To activate this feature, choose Web Settings from the
>Tools menu, and then on the General tab, select Use
>Document Check-In And Check-Out.
>
>I believe this feature had already appeared in FP2000,
but
>FP2003 adds two enhancements.
>
>1. The checkout can be effective on a remote Web server,
> rather than on the local server. Notice that if
> several people each have local copies of a site,
> check-ins on their local copies are useless. Someone
> using another copy could still update the same page.
> But if the check-out occurs on a remote server that
> contains a "master copy" used by all team members,
> then a checkout on one local copy blocks a checkout
> of the same file on a different local copy.
>
>2. When publishing a Web site, you can now "Synchronize"
> both sites. This has the effect of downloading newer
> pages from the remote site, as well as uploading
> newer pages from the local site. This is very useful
> if you have multiple people publishing local changes
> a shared "integration" server.
>
>Jim Buyens
>Microsoft FrontPage MVP
>
http://www.interlacken.com
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