Site Search on Front Page

[Gardner, Thomas]

Colleagues:

Much thanks for your help on this issue.

Apologies to those who went to the page I listed and found the search
site component not functioning. Try the following URL instead:

<http://www.mcl.org/ssearch1.html>

Oddly enough, if you take a look at the idiosyncratic
FrontPage-generated code for the Site Search page, the action for the
reset button is "S-Clear":

<!--webbot bot="Search"
            S-Index="All" S-Fields="TimeStamp,Weight" S-Text="Search
for:"
            I-Size="20" S-Submit="Start Search" S-Clear="Reset"
            S-TimestampFormat="%m/%d/%y" TAG="BODY" startspan
b-useindexserver="0" --><form action= ...etc.

I'm not sure how they define the word "clear" in Redmond ...

When you insert a site search component in FP, it automatically inserts
the *whole form* as a single component, including the "reset" button. To
those who quite reasonably suggested I nuke the reset button altogether,
I offer this as explanation for my not doing so - I can't. FrontPage
won't let me. And FrontPage, like Bill Gates himself, has a tendency to
punish anyone who tries to defy it by manually altering anything it
does. 

Our particular combo of server, server software, and client software
(i.e, FrontPage), has created a climate pretty hostile to scripts for
reasons I won't elaborate on (in part because I don't entirely
understand them myself). Thanks to those who suggested script solutions,
but we have even less luck with them using FrontPage.

I do appreciate your help in clarifying this issue for me. Apologies to
those who tried to get to the original site and were thwarted. 

Thanks again.

--
Tom Gardner
Senior Librarian/Webmaster
Mercer County Library System
2751 Brunswick Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
tgardner at mcl.org