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Are the Collect Data or Display Data Modules the only way?

1. Are the Office Live Web Designer Collect Data or Display Data Modules the only way to share data with the public website?

2. How would I collect or display data from an uploaded web page, when the Office Live Web Designer is deactivate?

I need an answer to this A.S.A.P.

Thanks

CDEA

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# 1

HI CDEA,

Sorry this has taken a while to get back to you with a response. Yes, the Collect Data and Display Data modules (aka Data Sharing) are currently the only way to share data with the public website from your private Office Live Business Applications and Workspaces.

There is no supported way for you to use the Data Sharing feature once you opt to use a different design tool such as FrontPage instead of the Office Live Web Site Designer. There may be a way for you to reverse engineer a Collect Data module that is added to a page using the Web Site Designer by capturing the contents using NetMon, Fiddler or other packet sniffer, and then add it to a page after you switch to using your own design tool such as FrontPage. Theoretically this would work, but because this method is not supported, there is a very real risk that it may not continue to work with future updates of Office Live.

Thanks.

ChrisBeiter-MSFT at 2007-9-12 > top of Msdn Tech,Office Live Development,Office Live Basics, Essentials and Premium...
# 2

I also wanted to use a different design tool

I went to the site options on the website screen, but the only options are

Site Adminthis leads to a diferent screen that deals with ueres, billing etc

Site Restore- deals with site rectors

Could you tell me where I am going wrong ?

Cheers

fredddread at 2007-9-12 > top of Msdn Tech,Office Live Development,Office Live Basics, Essentials and Premium...
# 3
What Office Live subscription are you signed up for? I believe you cannot use a different design tool with Basics. You have to have Essentials or Premium.
ChrisBeiter-MSFT at 2007-9-12 > top of Msdn Tech,Office Live Development,Office Live Basics, Essentials and Premium...
# 4

Here is the solutions I had to settle for:

  1. Subscribe to Microsoft Office Live Premium. I really appreciate the different Business Applications that come with it, and through my software company, ( www.aaccsoft.com ) I am offering various solutions to my clients.
  2. Develop the website using Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer.
  3. Upload all of the files to the Document Library, even the image files. The image files look better when in the Document Library then in the image Library.
  4. For the home page, use a suggested <script></script> to redirect to the ../Documents/index.html.
  5. Develop the Collect Data and Display Data web pages using the Office Live Designer. Use the various suggested <script></script> in the HTML Module to NOT show the Header and tabs of the Office Live web pages. Then, in your pages developed by the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer, use IFrame to display the info from your Collect Data and Display Data web pages.
  6. It's not pretty, but it works! For example, if you pull up the web page on a slow computer, sometimes the header still shows for a second or two, but then disappears.

I think one day Office Live might be adjusted to have a better option to not show the Header and tabs. I sure hope so, and I hope it is soon!!!

Hope this helps!

CDEA at 2007-9-12 > top of Msdn Tech,Office Live Development,Office Live Basics, Essentials and Premium...
# 5

Great site - I really like the sites that you built.

Thanks for listing out your workaround! We've taken note of your requests around the header and tabs.

-Tara

TaraBrown-MSFT at 2007-9-12 > top of Msdn Tech,Office Live Development,Office Live Basics, Essentials and Premium...
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