By using FrontPage, you can add Data Views to your Web site that display data by using Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLTs) (XSL Transformation (XSLT): A file that is used to transform XML documents into other types of documents, such as HTML or XML. It is designed for use as part of XSL.).

You can customize Data Views to create custom displays of your data in WYSIWYG (WYSIWYG: Acronym for What You See Is What You Get. Allows you to view a document as it will appear in the final product and to directly edit the text, graphics, and other elements within that view.) format by using the Formatting toolbar. You can also perform more advanced customizations by using the Data View Details task pane:

• Style   Choose a formatting style from a gallery of predesigned list view styles. You can also add a toolbar for site visitors to perform custom filtering on the list.
• Filter   Specify criteria to display a subset of the data in the Data View.
• Sort & group   Display items in a particular order and optionally group them on a Web page beneath collapsible headings.
• Conditional Formatting   Set conditions for the data in your Data View.

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, which is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, provides the component-based platform required for FrontPage data-driven functionality.

When you add Web Parts to your page by using FrontPage, you have more control over how they appear than you would by working with them on your SharePoint site. You can even create connections between Web Parts so that when you perform an action in one Web Part, it changes the contents of another Web Part.

Connecting sets of data from different data sources usually requires advanced programming skills, but by connecting Web Parts, you can pass data between them and synchronize their behavior. For example, you can connect a List View Web Part, which contains a column with a hyperlink data type, to an Image Web Part, which contains a picture of an employee. Each time you select a row in the List View Web Part, you can see the picture of the employee displayed in the Image Web Part.

Although you can establish a Web Part connection by using the Web browser, by using FrontPage, you can extend the functionality of Web Part connections. For example, you can use the Form Web Part to filter the data in another Web Part, or you can establish connections between Web Parts on two Web Part Pages in the same top-level Web site.

Form Web Parts are a case-sensitive, filtering mechanism, and they work with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web sites only.

By using the Form Web part in FrontPage, you can extend the functionality of Web Part connections by enabling site visitors to enter data through a familiar form-like interface, which passes data into a Web Part connection. Similar to a search box, site visitors can, for example, filter on data contained in the List View Web Part by using the Form Web Part.

By using the Form Web Part option, you cannot build a form that lets you collect data and send it to a database or e-mail address. Instead, to collect data from your customers, on the Insert menu, point to Forms, and then click List Form or Form.

If you are running a Web site based on Windows SharePoint Services, you can use the following forms:

• List Forms, which are used to input data to a SharePoint list.
• Forms, which are used to collect data to a standalone text or XML file.
• Form Web Parts, which are used to filter for information on your SharePoint site, and work by using the Web Part Connections technology.

Important  If you are running a Web site that is not based on Windows SharePoint Services, such as a disk-based Web or by using the FrontPage Server Extensions, on the Insert menu, point to Forms, and then click Forms. The other forms options may be unavailable because you are not running a SharePoint Web site.