The viewer is taken to a default confirmation page whenever a form that was created using FrontPage and published on a Web site is accessed, filled out, and submitted.

While I know of no way to “disable” this feature, it is possible to specify that the viewer should be taken to a custom confirmation page upon submission.

To do so, open the form page in FrontPage so it can be edited. Right-click inside the form area and choose the Form Properties... command from the shortcut menu. Click the Options button and display the Confirmation Page tab. Enter the URL of the page you would like the viewer to see after they submit the form information—in the example shown here, we are directing them back to our site's Home page (index.htm). Click OK to close all dialog boxes. Save and republish your modified form.

Note: If you are submitting the results to a database, enter the URL of the confirmation page on the Database Results tab as shown below.

After submitting a form, you can direct the viewer to another page instead of the default confirmation page except directly back to the form page they were just using. While you can’t redirect the viewer directly back to the forms page, you can send them to an interim page that has a “refresh” META tag in it that then sends them back to the original forms page. To do so:

1. Create a new normal web page (press CTRL+N or click the New Page button on the toolbar).
2. Save it as redir1.htm. (You don’t have to place any content on the page as it won’t be displayed long enough to read.)
3. On the File menu, click Properties and then click the Custom tab.
4. In the System Variable section, click the Add button.
5. In the Name box, type refresh.
6. In the Value box, type: 0;url=formpage.htm in which  formpage.htm is the URL of the form page and 0 represents a delay of “zero seconds” until the specified form page is displayed in the browser.
   
   
7. Click OK and then save the redir1.htm page.
8. Open the form page and change the form properties confirmation page to redir1.htm using the steps listed at the top of this page.
9. Save your form page.
10. Publish both new and revised pages.
11. Browse to the revised form page, fill in the form, and submit it. You should be redirected back to the original form page so you can submit a second form.

When you are publishing and testing your changes, make sure you force your browser to “refresh” these pages to ensure that you are viewing and testing the latest versions of the pages.

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