Chapter 16: Making a Site Database-Driven


Overview

10-Second Summary

  • Work with live data on a Windows SharePoint Services Web site

  • Create Data Views that let users easily post to a database

  • Format Data Views the quick way by implementing preformatted styles

  • Create, edit, and add databases with the Data Source Catalog

In the business world, accurate and up-to-date information is the key to success. When it comes to creating a Web site, publishing the most accurate information you can, and getting it online as quickly as possible, keeps customers satisfied. By linking your site to live data sources held in databases, you ensure that your visitors get current information instantly ”and once you set up the system, with the help of Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, the information is generated on the fly in response to requests . The Web browser becomes a database client, and a Web server a database server.

FrontPage has always made it easy to save form results to a database or make connections to existing databases through its Database Interface Wizard and Database Results Wizard. Now, FrontPage makes working with live data easier than ever. By combining FrontPage 2003 with a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web site, you can use FrontPage as a complete interface for working with databases. You can present a variety of live data, including Web services, XML services, and OLE database data sources. This flexibility lowers the cost of creating and maintaining your Web site. Support for standards like Extensible Markup language (XML) and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLTs) gives your co-workers the ability to post to the Web, using only their Web browsers.

This chapter focuses on FrontPage s newest tools for working with data. You ll learn how to view data, format it, sort it, and connect one data source to another, all from within the same tool you use to create the Web pages on which the data appears.




Faster Smarter Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
Faster Smarter Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
ISBN: 0735619727
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 179

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