Novice Design Question about Frames

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I’ve been trying to work this out all week, but can’t find the answer. Can someone point me in the right direction?

I have a frameset with two Frames, menu and view.

When a user first visits the database on the web, they are presented with a menu on the left and a blank page on the right.

When they click on a hotspot in the menu on the left pane, a sub menu appears as the setting for that pane’s default target is “Menu”.

This means, however, that when they click on a sub menu option, the view that they’ve reached appears in the “menu” pane as well.

If I set the “default target” option to the views pane, then the sub menu appears in the views pane.

I have also set the AutoFrame option for each view in the database, but it doesn’t make any difference. The “Default frame” options seems to override it.

How do I make navigators and sub navigators appear in the menu pane and views appear in the views pane? Can I only have one navigator in this setup?

Thanks in advance for any guidance

Steve

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Subject: Novice Design Question about Frames

First off, pick one of the targets as the “default”: the one where most of the links should open.

Then for the other links, specify the frame for those links. As long as they’re URLs, I believe there’s a way to punch them in directly, say on each hotspot or on each outline entry? I’m not in a place where I can verify this, but rest assure, “I dun it” before.

Sometimes you may just want to open a whole new frameset, too, and not simply switch the menus, too. In that case you’d need to take a look at linking to an entire frameset and opening that. This seems to “work better” in browsers, which don’t keep the old window open (while Notes seems to have a hard time closing the old window when you want it closed: it can be done, but it’s more stuff to worry about).

'Hope it helps.