Dreamweaver Templates and Include files

Hi,
I am using dreamweaver templates so that my users can create
new pages on our Intranet using Contribute.
When I create a template and try and use an inculde file for
the menu systems I get an error. I am trying to use the following
code to inculde the asp file:

And I get the following error when saving the template:
Unbalanced body tag
I have checked and I definetly have opening and closing body
tags in the HTML. So I am wondering whether the error is caused by
the fact that the file is a dwt and not as asp.
So, is there anyway of using include files in a dreamweaver
template?
Thanks in advance for any help.

That's the wrong syntax for a file include. It should be
either of these -

or

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>
>> 
>>
>> And I get the following error when saving the
template:
>>
>> Unbalanced body tag
>>
>> I have checked and I definetly have opening and
closing body tags in the
>> HTML.
>
> Is the include file JUST the html that would be correct
syntax for where
> it
> is used in the main file?
>
> In other words- included files should not be complete
html docs with their
> own head and body tags. That would result in multiple
head and body tags
> in
> the assembled files.
>
>
> --
> Alan
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Whe you spawn the child page from the template, you will see
ALL of the
links look like that until you save the page. Once you save
it, DW knows
how to adjust the links so that they remain relative to the
saved document.
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"ogre11" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> It seems on occasion - especially with the embed tag - a
relative file
> path in
> the dwt file becomes an absolute file path in the file
it makes. The
> worst
> thing is that it doesnt happen consistently, Ive created
4 files from a
> template and now all of a sudden when i make a new one
the path doesnt
> update.
> I'm also using coldfusion with these tags which could be
the problem.
> Either
> way I dont want to have to reedit every page with
notepad. Heres my code
>
> template code:
>
> <object
classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
> version=7,0,0,0" width="730" height="295"
align="middle">
> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"
/>
> <cfoutput>#IEcat#</cfoutput>
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
> <cfoutput><embed
src="../new/flash/navigation6a.swf#cat#"
> quality="high"
> bgcolor="##ffffff" width="730" height="295"
align="middle"
> allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/> </cfoutput>
> </object>
>
> code rendered from template:
>
> <object
classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
> version=7,0,0,0" width="730" height="295"
align="middle">
> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"
/>
> <cfoutput>#IEcat#</cfoutput>
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
> <cfoutput><embed
>
src="file:///D|/KMI%20websites/centerplate.ca/site/new/flash/navigation6a.swf#ca
> t#" quality="high" bgcolor="##ffffff" width="730"
height="295"
> align="middle"
> allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/> </cfoutput>
> </object>
>
> on a side note, in the object param tag when using the
output tags inside
> the
> quotation marks of the value it turns all non
alphanumeric characters into
> ascii
>
> any help on either problem will be much appreciated
>

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GeorgeG
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I am running into a problem while building sites using
Dreamweaver's Template option. These sites are not easily found by
search engines. Anyone have any solutions?... without having to
stop using templates?
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cineaste_grrl

I can unequivocally guarantee you that there is no relation
between your use
of templates and your site's ranking by search engines. Can
you post a link
to the site, though, so we can see what the problem might be?
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"Cineaste_grrl" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I am running into a problem while building sites using
Dreamweaver's
>Template
> option. These sites are not easily found by search
engines. Anyone have
> any
> solutions?... without having to stop using templates?
>
> THANKS MUCH
> cineaste_grrl
>

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this true? Am I wasting my time or can someone point me in the
right direction?.
cheers

Here's the problem. When you enable that check for Flash
version, DW tries
to write it into the body tag of the child page. That is
impossible since
you cannot write into the body tag of a Template child page.
The simple
solution is to NOT check for Flash version. That will work.
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make a dummy,
non-Template controlled page, insert your Flash there. Copy
the code placed
between <body> and </body> into the editable
region of your child page, and
copy the call to the Flash check into a new editable region
that you place
immediately above the </body> tag in the Template page
(and allow to
propagate to all child pages. You would then place this call
in script tags
into that editable region.
But first, tell us which DW you are using, please?
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"little liz" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
>
>
> I've designed a general template for my website and put
in a general
> editable
> region for the content. I've created pages based on this
template and find
> I
> can add text or images to the content area but not
video. It says it has
> to
> edit the main template code and won't go any further.
>
> So, I noticed that it's trying to put a bit of script
checking for the
> flash
> player version into the page, so I copied and pasted
this bit of script
> into
> the template and tried just pasting the relevant code to
load the video
> flv in
> my actual page but it doesn't play anything. All a bit
tedious and long
> winded.
> I thought the idea of templates was to enable a single
point of defining
> page
> layout and that one could creating pages based on this
with anything you
> wanted
> in, but they seem a bit limited. Is this true? Am I
wasting my time or
> can
> someone point me in the right direction?.
>
> cheers
>
>
>

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tangonovember wrote: I would like to create a DW template and show or hide content using conditional logic. Can this be done?
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Roddy

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I'm using Dw CS3 on Windows XP. I have created a template I created from another page and then created my new pages from the template. I am still working on the site so it's all on my computer - not yet uploaded to the remote site. It was working fine for quite some time but suddenly now when I make a change to the template I am getting the following error message:
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etc ...
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Look forward to hearing of possible solutions.
Many thanks.

Hi Medel,
We fully support Windows 8.1 Enterprise, therefore it is alright to use that SKU. As long as you have Windows 8.1, all that Siena needs, will be provided by the Operating System.
As a follow up for you, on the other laptop, if you do the following what happens?
1) Reboot
2) Start Siena, once the machine comes back up
3) Start a new document and save as something other than "test.siena", on your desktop
Does it save? If it does not, you may have to post on the Windows Forum and see what suggestions are available.
Thanks.

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I am running into the following scenario: Page 1 includes page 2, on both pages a session variable is returned to the screen. On occasions, page 2 throws an error on the session variable even though it was successfully called on page 1.
It only happens occassionally, and is very difficult to recreate in order to debug it in realtime. Has anyone run into something like this before? Thanks!

semi star gazer wrote:
I am running into the following scenario: Page 1 includes page 2, on both pages a session variable is returned to the screen. On occasions, page 2 throws an error on the session variable even though it was successfully called on page 1.
It only happens occassionally, and is very difficult to recreate in order to debug it in realtime. Has anyone run into something like this before? Thanks!
I suspect it has less to do with page-inclusion, more to do with the code on page 2. Suppose, instead of using cfinclude, you had copied the code from page 2 into page 1, and made 1 page of it. Then the error would still have occurred. That's at least my theory.
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<cftry>
<cfinclude template="page2.cfm">
<cfcatch type="any">
<cfdump var="#cfcatch#"><cfabort>
</cfcatch>
<cftry>

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