Blank home page, no edit button

[Nicklin, Kelly]

Kirk's suggestion got me closer, but it took a little more work. The home
page was still blank. I ended up turning the "message" into a story and then
changing the home link in the navigator to point to the new story.

Just in case this happens to somebody else, here's what worked for me:
As Kirk suggested:
> Login to the site
> Go to the Discuss section
> Use the calendar to back up as far as you can so that you can locate the
> story
> Click on the link for the story to view it
Then, 
  Choose "Make this message a story?" at the bottom of the page.
  Go to Stories and copy the full URL of the new story. 
  Prefs - Advanced - Navigation and in <item name="Home"
pagename="/sitename/"/> replace /sitename/ with the URL that was copied
above.

I have no idea how the person lost her home page in the first place (and I
hope nobody looses another one), but the above procedure worked in this
case.

Thanks to Kirk and others for their suggestions. I appreciate the time and
help!

Mr. Kelly Nicklin
Technical Training/Web Development
Information Management Services
Omaha Public Schools
nicklink at ops.org
Voice: 402/557-2514
FAX: 402/557-2509

> ----------
> From: 	Kirk Langer
> Reply To: 	Frontier-Users at userland.com
> Sent: 	Friday, September 6, 2002 1:48 PM
> To: 	Frontier-Users at userland.com
> Subject: 	RE: Blank home page, no edit button
> 
> At 1:09 PM -0500 9/6/02, Nicklin, Kelly wrote:
> >I tried Ken's suggestion (below) and no luck. Sometimes the page displays
> >"This message has been deleted." but not always. 
> >
> >The markup for the page is normal. It's just blank where the home page
> >content should be. All other pages work fine.
> >
> 
> Login to the site
> Go to the Discuss section
> Use the calendar to back up as far as you can so that you can locate the
> story
> Click on the link for the story to view it
> At the bottom you are asked if you would like to make this the home 
> page.  You can select "yes" and submit the change.
> 
> That should get the page back.
> -- 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kirk Langer
> Internet Services Manager
> Lincoln Public Schools/ESU #18
> mailto:klanger at lps.org
> 
>