Adding New Values to the Substitution Web Component 

The Substitution Web Component helps you quickly insert repetitive information in your web pages. Microsoft FrontPageŽ version 2002 comes with four Substitution values already enabled. These have already been defined for you and are:

  • Author- the author of a page.
  • Description- this is populated by the Comments field under the Summary tab in File Properties.
  • Modified By- who last modified the page
  • Page URL- the page's URL

If you would like to add your own Substitution components such as a company email address you can do that as well.

To create your own Substitution values and use them as a single source of content in multiple locations, open a new or existing Web in FrontPage 2002 and do the following: 

  1. In Page view, on the Tools menu, click Web Settings, and then click the Parameters tab. 
  2. Click Add. 
  3. In the Name box, type a name for the variable. This is what you will call the variable. 
  4. In the Value box, type a value for the variable. This is what will be displayed on the page. 
  5. Click OK. 
  6. Position the insertion point in a page where you want to display the variable. 
  7. On the Insert menu, click Web Component. 
  8. In the left pane, click Included Content, and in the right pane, double-click Substitution. 
  9. In the Substitute with box, click a variable from the list. 

Tip: The four default Substitution values are captured from the File Properties. In Folder List view, right-click any one of the files and select Properties. Under the Summary tab in the Comments field, you will see the data used to populate the Description Substitution value. This is blank by default. You can add or change this information by editing the Comments field. 

More information

For more information about Web Components, see Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help.