FP2000: Database Menu Item on Insert Menu Unavailable

ID: Q232532

The information in this article applies to:

SUMMARY

When you are authoring pages in FrontPage 2000, the Database Results Region only functions on Web servers that have Active Server Pages (ASP) and the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions installed, or on disk-based Webs. FrontPage will not make this menu item available if the Web server that the page is opened from does not support Active Server Pages.


MORE INFORMATION

If you are authoring on a Web server, the database features are available only if the following conditions are true:

All of the Web servers available with the Windows NT 4 Option Pack have native support for Active Server Pages. Internet Information Server (IIS) 3, Microsoft Peer Web Services 3, and Microsoft Personal Web Server version 1 have the capability of supporting ASP after the ASP add-on is installed.

You can download the ASP add-in from the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iis3/Download2.asp?Prod=1
Asp.exe is also available on the FrontPage 98 CD in the \60 Minute Intranet Kit\60 Minute Intranet Kit\Modules directory.

Complete database functionality is only available if the Web server also has Microsoft Data Access Components 2.1 (MDAC), FrontPage 2000, or Office 2000 installed.

You can download MDAC 2.1 from the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/data.
NOTE: MDAC 2.1 is also installed with the FrontPage client software or Office 2000. If you are authoring a disk-based Web, the database features are available; however, they will not function until the Web is published to a Web server as previously described.

If you have used the Page Options dialog box to clear the Active Server Pages check box, the Database menu item will not be available even if the Web server you are editing on can support it.

The Database menu will not be available if your Web server is running Chili!ASP. Yet, browsing ASP pages is available.

For more information about using Chili!ASP and FrontPage, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q225204 FP2000: Using FrontPage Database Features on Servers Running Chili!ASP


REFERENCES

For more information about the database functionality dependence on MDAC 2.1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q216900 Database Connection Requires ADO for Inserting or Browsing Database Results

Additional query words: front page 


Keywords          : kbdta 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: July 1, 1999