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How to link to a frame page

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rkatyal

IS-IT--Management
Jun 21, 2003
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Hi

I have an issue. My company sends out an E-mail to our clients which links to our Monthly Newsletter on our website.
The newsletter is in a frames page. The newsletter appears in the Main Page of the Frame (which does not reside on the same server as the website).

I need to put hyperlink in the e-mail so that it will take the user to the frames page and open the newsletter.

Our website is http:/ If you click on the bottom where it says Information & Guidance and then News and Resources. And then on the next page you see a link to the Newsletter.
Click there and the Newsletter appears in the Frames page. I need to be able to link to this page from the E-mail.

When I try the link that is in the Address bar. It takes the user to the previous screen where they have to take one more step of clicking on the Newsletter link to go to the actual newsletter. I want to avoid that extra step.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks much in advance.

Cheers
 
Code:
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.gofso.com/Premium/MN/nl.html[/URL]

Cheers,


[monkey] Edward [monkey]

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door
 
I actually want the Header and the Content frame to appear also.

I don't want to link to the gofso.com site to go to the page.

I want to be able to link to ddkcpas.com site to link to the newsletter page.

Is that possible

Thanks
 
Hm. The page is on the gofso site, so if you want to link to the newsletter, that's how it's going to work.

Now, what you could do is buy your web wanker a box of Pop-Tarts in exchange for a special "just holds the newsletter" version of the main frameset page.

So, then your e-mail would contain the link (for example):
http:/which is a frameset that duplicates the same sources as the main page, but also has the most current newsletter in the Main frame.

I think burying the link in a SWF file is a bit of a pain, but at least it dances.

Cheers,


[monkey] Edward [monkey]

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door
 
You could put some code into the main frameset page to check for the existence of some URL token which would then, instead of loading the home page in the main frame, load the newsletter. So your URL would look something like:

Then use Javascript to strip everything after the '=' off the URL and assign it as the source for the main page.
 
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