[thelist] FrontPage2000 Include Page Component Locking Up....

[Martin]

Gregory.John.Toland at ccmail.census.gov wrote on 18/7/00 7:49 pm

>I am running FrontPage2000 on a Win NT 4.0 SP6a workstation editing files 
>on an
>IIS 4.0 web server (w/FP2000 extensions).  Whenever I attempt to open up a 
>file
>that uses the Include Page component the application toggles between not
>responding and being very slow.  The CPU jumps to 100% for a short time then
>becomes normal only for a few seconds, then shoots back up to 100%.  If I use
>the non-FrontPage syntax:
>
>     <!--#include file="??????.htm"-->
>
>instead of
>
>     <!--webbot bot="Include" U-Include="??????.htm" TAG="BODY" -->
>
> the problem is solved.  Any ideas as to why this is ocurring?

Yup. FP includes happen at authoring time, not at run time. This is a pain
for you (I was running an intranet once, using FP includes for common
navigation, and one edit took 45 mins to ripple through the 2000 odd
pages it was on), but means that IIS has static HTML pages on it, with
the associated performance gains for the real users.

Try opening a page with an include with a basic text editor (*not*
FP which hides all this from you) - you'll see the page is prebuilt.

FWIW imagemaps are also hidden from you in a similar way, which
makes producing JS rollovers in image maps kinda fun.

Cheers
Martin