Manually arranging Library items -- buggy?

I'm trying to figure out whether Aperture (all versions including latest) has a bug or whether I need to delete some preference-files to reset something.
I have several large Libraries, some 'general' ones and some others that are confined to particular travel-adventures. A general library has lots of Projects and a few albums. A travel Library probably has a Project for each camera chip and lots of Albums comprising the days and 'events' of the trip. In every Library, most Albums are manually created and some are Smart Albums.
THE PROBLEM: As I go thru the organizing process, I manually arrange the Albums, etc., in the Inspector pane but after dragging and dropping an Album in the pane it sometimes 'lands' in a spot a few items 'above' the place I dropped it. It's stubborn and repeatable. Restarting Aperture doesn't seem to fix it.
Seveal Aperture versions ago I filed this as a bug but nothing has changed. Have others witnessed it?

That's an okay idea and will 'solve' the problem but it implies that I can make up appropriatly numbered prefixes as I go. Of course I've worked around various sorting problems by naming/numbering the file system's directories and folders on every computer I've ever used (including Unix on the PDP-11/20). But as soon as I want to create another album in-the-middle I might have to adjust a bunch of names. Feh.
As no one else has commented, maybe I'll go delete some preference files. Thanks.

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DW won't let me change a library item "change will be discarded"

I built a site and I have library items for my logo and
navigation and some thumbnails. I want to use a different file/lbi
file for my header. When I delete the current library item and try
to put a new one in, I get this message: "making this change would
require changing code that is locked by a template or translator.
The change will be discarded." I honestly don't know what to do; I
really need to specify a different file for my header but it won't
let me, and I have over 100 pages and I made all thumbnails,
rollovers, and all links manually and the file that it's using
isn't working right. I just want to put the correct one in there; I
don't know how I can possibly build my site completely from scratch
- what can I do?
This is a related issue, but I'm not sure how: I have two
library items named the same thing in two different folders; some
files refer to one, some to the other, but I want them all to refer
to the correct one; I can't make change since I get that error
message. I'm confused about which file is which, I'd deleted one
before, then restored it...thank you so much for any help. I'm
trying to build my portfolio site for an art exhibition...

Happily. One of the pages of the site I'm having problems
with is
http://www.hopeedwards.com/TEST_new_website/Hope_website/assorted_art.htm
I also attached code for it. [note: the home/index page only
works in Firefox but the other tabs work in IE and Safari. Also,
everything is shoved down wrong in IE and it only looks right in
Firefox] I am running Adobe CS3 on an Intel based Mac Pro with
Tiger OSX 10.4. I'm having trouble with a couple library items. The
very top library item is logo_and_navigation.lbi - all was okay
with it except I somehow had a couple different copies of it in my
Library folder, so I moved one of them to a folder within the site
called "Trashes". Then I deleted that one because I didn't want two
copies and the logo and nav disappeared on some pages that used
that one. I reinstated it in the trashes folder. The pages that use
that located in the Trashes folder are the index, Assorted Art, and
Commercial Work. The ones that use the one in the Library folder
are Clue Series and About & Contact.
I would like them all to use just one file so I only have to
edit one file if I make changes. I've tried several things: I've
tried selecting and deleting the item in the documents and
inserting the proper copy. It won't let me. I get the message
"making this change would require changing code that is locked by a
template or translator. The change will be discarded." I've tried
doing a Find and Replace and replacing the word Trashes with
Library to specify the correct folder info but that doesn't work,
probably because it can't change code in the library item.
I had a similar problem with the thumbnails library items
when I tried to build my other pages doing a File Save As from the
first one I built in Assorted Art. When I tried to create a
Commercial Work page from it, I deleted the thumbnails library item
because it was the Assorted Art thumbnails. When I tried to insert
the Commercial Work thumbnails library item I got that error
message. It was so frustrating; I had to go in and build the
Commercial Work page from scratch. I had to do that with each
different tab. It just doesn't seem right that you can't swap out
library items.
Anyway, I'd completely appreciate any help or feedback! I
really would!
Hope

I'm no longer able to manually arrange my albums

Recently I have "lost" the ability to manually arrange my photo albums in the left-hand list. PReviously, I could grab an album, then drag it to the spot I wanted. iPhoto would idicate whether I was about to drop the album onto another by highlighting the album I was hovering over, or it would draw an indicator (a line with an open dot on the left-hand end) that I could drop that album between the surrounding albums. Now I am only able to drop one album onto another and not between albums.
I have already tried the usualy fixes of trashing prefs and completely rebuilding my iPhoto library, to no avail.
Wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue and has been able to restore the expected behaviour.
In summary, I used to be able to sort like this...
Now I can only sort like this...

Are you using a track pad to move the albums? There was another poster who had the same problem and was using a trackpad. With a mouse the precision for placing an album between two others is greater. If you are using a trackpad check the trackpad System/preferences for speed, etc.

Library Items won't Update!!

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Apparently, the doctype addition was added into all of my pages that contain the library item. Now I can't seem to easily get rid of it! I changed my menu's html to get rid of the doctype, but this change is not reflected when I update all pages. I go to Modify>Library>Update Pages... and choose to update the entire site. Nothing happens! The doctype is still in all of my pages that contain the menu, and it breaks the page (nothing shows in the Design view window.)
Please help! I really don't want to have to delete and reinsert the menu on every page of my website. : (
Here's an example, with the doctype error in the library item "menu-multilevel.lbi":
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I've never used Library Items. IMO Server-Side Includes are better for this.
Can you do a Find & Replace in the Source Code (Ctrl+F) for this line?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
And replace it with this:

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Manually Arranging the List of Collections

I just downloaded and installed LR 1.0. I was also able to successfully import my LR 4.1beta Library with no problem. My question is: does anyone know how to manually arrange the list of Collections in LR 1.0? Right now they are listed alphabetically, but I would like to have the list of Collections displayed otherwise.
In iPhoto, you can click and drag a specific iPhoto Library then move and place it wherever you want in the iPhoto Library list.
Any help on how to do this would be appreciated.

Thanks, Sid. That's a workaround for what I want to do, but I would like to arrange my Collections in chronological order (using Month Year) as the Collection name (i.e., FEB 2007) and would like to have the most recent images in the Collection at the top of the Collection list.
In other words, if I started setting up my Collection list today, I would like to have it arranged FEB 2007, JAN 2007, DEC 2006, ... with FEB 2007 at the top. Right now, I haven't figured out a way to do that.
Unfortunately, using the child collections the way you suggested, I would have to rename each Collection everytime I added a new Collection (named after the current Month Year) to keep the most recent Collection at 001.

Dreamweaver Stopped asking if I want to update Library Items and Templates

Hi All,
Using dreamweaver on a new project. Set up my Templates and library items and everything was fine - when I changed one a saved it a dialogue popped up and asked me if I wanted to update files. Suddenly the dialog box has stopped appearing and now I have to instigate it manually by going to modify->templates->update pages which is annoying and more time consuming.
Why has the automatic dialogue disappeared and how do i get it back?
Thanks

Sorry for the late reply. I'm still having the problem and appreciate the help. Attached is the requested screen shot. Everything is in order I think. Its a big site though and the whole thing won't fit in one screen shot. What are you looking for specifically?

Dreamweaver CC Library Item with rollover link produces two body tags. Why?

I have a library item which is used in two pages and works correctly if it does not contain a rollover arrow with a link taking you to the top of the library item. This produces the following near the top of each of the containing pages:
</head>
<body class="indexpage">

<p><a id="top"></a></p>
Note that the Library Item does not itself have a <body> tag in this original, working version.
The problem arises when I insert an image rollover with a link up to #top (which is defined as above).
First, the Library Item has the following near its top:
<script ...>
... various functions to handle the rollover
</script>
<body onLoad="MM_preloadImages('../images/uparrowred2.gif')">
<p><a id="top"></a></p>
Secondly, the containing pages now have the following near the top:
</head>
<body class="indexpage" onLoad="MM_preloadImages('images/uparrowred2.gif)">

<script ...>
... various functions to handle the rollover
</script>
<body onLoad="MM_preloadImages('../images/uparrowred2.gif')">
<p><a id="top"></a></p>
It can be seen (shown in red) that the Library Item has correctly transferred the onLoad instruction to the containing page's <body> tag and at the same time altered the address of the GIF image from '../images/xxx.gif' to 'images/xxx.gif'. [The root folder with the various html pages has a number of subfolders including 'images' and 'Library']. But now, unfortunately, the containing pages have two <body> tags with the second one pointing to the wrong location for the GIF image.
Would someone please explain what is going on. I can think of three possibilities: (1) I may be doing something really stupid, (2) there may be a bug in Dreamweaver CC or (3) Library Items may not be allowed to contain anything "complicated" like a rollover. I did see a very old (2007) discussion in this forum suggesting that Library Items were rather limited in what they could contain, but over the intervening six years I would have expected things to have improved.

Thank you, but in that case I'm not sure I understand the purpose of Library Items. Before I added the Library Item, there was nothing to preload. When I add a rollover to the Library Item, Dreamweaver creates the preloader instruction within the Library Item. Then when I include the Library Item in an html page, Dreamweaver controls where the preloader is put.
Do I then need to manually edit what Dreamweaver has done? In this instance it would have been almost as quick to have ignored the use of a Library Item and copied and pasted the relevant code into the two pages and manually created the revised <body> tag with a preloader. In my relative inexperience with Dreamweaver, I just thought that using a Library Item in multiple pages would save me some effort when I wanted to change the content of the Library Item. As I said, the Library Item worked OK until I added a rollover within it.

Again Library Item

Hi All,
I have coding to place Library Item into the Page Layout, my Script placing the library Item into that parent Page,
But my Problem is I can not place XMLElement Into that Library Element Box.
Here is my Script:
myDoc.select(myElement);
            var mySideBarXML = app.selection[0];
            try {
                                myAsset = myCurrentLib.assets.item("Box");   // Name of the library item is "bx1"
                myLibraryItem = myAsset.placeAsset(myElement.insertionPoints[-1]);
catch (err)   {
                alert ("There is no library element with the name Box");
                exit();
            // TO PLACE TEXT IN LIBRARY ITEM
          try {
                myLibraryItem[0].textFrames[0].placeXML(mySideBarXML);   // if the library element is group of frames.
            catch (ee) {
                try {
                    myLibraryItem[0].placeXML(mySideBarXML);   // if the library element is a single frame.
                catch (ee) { }
can any one help on this.
Regards
Hurix

Hi hurix,
Are you try the above requirement in manually, You can't do even manually, because you already placed the library item into the XML text in between, again you drag the you respective box element xml text into the box, definitely its shown the error in InDesign like this...("Elements cannot be placed into an inline").
Now, what you have to do it for your requirement to meet. First you placed the library item into the respective page, then placed the box xml element content into the library item text frame.
try{
    var mySideBarXML = myElement;
    var myLibraryItem = app.libraries[0].assets.item("Box").placeAsset(myDoc)[0];// here you give the page, i.e., you selection element text parent page;
    myLibraryItem.move(mySideBarXML.xmlContent.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage);
     try {
         myLibraryItem.textFrames[0].placeXML(myElement);   // if the library element is group of text frame.
     catch (ee) {
         myLibraryItem.placeXML(myElement);// single text frame no group.
thx,
csm_phil,

DWT Library item won't update if there is an HTML error?

I'm updating a DWT site for a client and I have found from time to time the library items stop updating and I believe this happens when there is an HTML error.
Example: I omitted a </ul> tag by mistake at some point recently and updated the pages in the site. Now that I've discovered the error I fixed it, but when I update the pages the dialog goes through each page but makes no change. I've found I can fix it by opening the pages in an external editor and fixing the code manually, but this seems to defeat the purpose of the templates.
I've tried researching this but I haven't found anyone else reporting this or any possible solutions. Is this a quirk on my system or has anyone else experienced this?
Dreamweaver CC 13.1 Build 6443
(Oh it's so frustrating that clicking anywhere closes the About dialog. I tried to copy the version number at least 4 times before I slowed myself down and remembered it.)

Thanks for that. I agree with the 'it should still work'. The 'libraryitem' tags are still there and the library code is yellowed out. I just wondered if there was a quick fix to reinstate the updating.
Since I posted this, I have discovered that the update works on files that are OPEN in DW. It's only the site files not open. I have opened all the .aspx files and run a library change successfully.
HOWEVER, if I close those files and update again, they still don't do it. I now suspect that there is a hidden DW file, like the lock files on the server, or perhaps a component of the .lbi file, that lists the files to update.

Using CSS instead of or with library item

I built my site using Dreamweaver 8. I used the design view
exclusively. I made a navigation bar as a library item. Utilizing
rollovers, etc. Now I have learned I should build my site utilizing
CSS and as was pointed out on this forum to me, to learn CSS and
HTML.
I am having a brain freeze. The logic escapes me as to how I
would build a navigation bar and put it on each page as I did
utilizing the library function before.
I am sure for all you pro's this is a really dumb and obvious
thing but I just don't seem to figure out the logic how to do it. I
am not talking about the CSS for the behaviors such as hover,
visited, active. This I know how to do. It is just the ability to
have a properly designed navbar and be able to put it on every page
I make.
Murry "ACE" told me not to use AP and the dreaded mm_menus so
I am trying to figure this out and build a better more code
efficient site. Mine works but is quite trashy in the code.

It can be a bit daunting.
Try going through this tutorial completely. It's a bit out of
date (using
an older version of DW), and still covers the use of tables,
but it's worth
reinforcing your basic understandings -
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/first_website_pt1.html
Then I would suggest you do this tutorial -
Taking a Fireworks comp to a CSS-based layout in Dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/web_standards_layouts_pt1.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/web_standards_layouts_pt2.html
Finally, to get a grip on how to manage menus across an
entire site, use
DW's F1 help about how to use Templates, and server-side
includes.
Templates do make your life much easier. I use the following
scheme....
First, I mentally separate the page layout into three
sections:
1. Stuff that will not change for the life of the site (i.e.,
the basic
structural elements)
2. Stuff that *could* change from time to time (e.g.,
navigation elements,
burst advertisements, section-specific navigation, etc.)
3. Stuff that *will* change from one page to the next
Then I create a template containing all class1 elements. Next
I create
server-side include files containing all class 2 elements and
place them on
the template as needed. Note - some of the class 2 elements
may be
"section-specific elements", and their placement on the
template will be
subject to the next item. Finally, I insert editable regions
to cover the
class 3 items, INCLUDING the section-specific navigation.
This allows me to just cookie-cut the rest of the site. I
estimate that
even for fairly large sites, about 80% of my work goes into
planning and
creating this template file.
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>I built my site using Dreamweaver 8. I used the design
view exclusively. I
> made a navigation bar as a library item. Utilizing
rollovers, etc. Now I
> have
> learned I should build my site utilizing CSS and as was
pointed out on
> this
> forum to me, to learn CSS and HTML.
>
> I am having a brain freeze. The logic escapes me as to
how I would build a
> navigation bar and put it on each page as I did
utilizing the library
> function
> before.
>
> I am sure for all you pro's this is a really dumb and
obvious thing but I
> just
> don't seem to figure out the logic how to do it. I am
not talking about
> the CSS
> for the behaviors such as hover, visited, active. This I
know how to do.
> It is
> just the ability to have a properly designed navbar and
be able to put it
> on
> every page I make.
>
> Murry "ACE" told me not to use AP and the dreaded
mm_menus so I am trying
> to
> figure this out and build a better more code efficient
site. Mine works
> but is
> quite trashy in the code.
>

Dreamweaver Teamplate with Library Item for Navigation/Sidebar not updating editable classes

I have a Dreamweaver Template that contains two Library items. One Library item is my navigation bar, the other is a sidebar that shows different content depending on what page you are on. I'm assigning an editable class "active" to the navigation bar to show you are on a particular page, and also assigning the editable class "active" to the sidebar to reveal a portion of the sidebar with links pertaining to that specific page. The default value for the class is "hidden". So what is happening is when I open a page I have created and "edit" the Library Items in it to edit these classes, it resets resets all the other pages on the site to the default class values. How am I able to use editable classes and Library Items to achieve this kind of functionality? The idea is to only have ONE navigaton bar to update on the site and to only have ONE sidebar item to update. Here is an example of the sidebar and navigation in action so you can see what I'm going for. Notice the green button in the navigation bar (that is a list item with the class "active" which is an editable class in the Library Item, also notice the tan links in the sidebar, that is an unordered list that has an editable class of "active" in the Library Items --- these editable classes reset to their defaults when updating the Library Item on the website).
http://www.brumleve.org/joe/temp/CAP/mission.html

In my understanding, whenever you edit the contents of a library item, it will update all other occurances of this library item on the rest of the site. That's "working as designed" as far as I know, unless you break the link by telling it to not update - which kinda defeats the purpose I think.
But theres another way to do this using template properties, i#ve been using this approach myself a couple of times:
Write your navigation bar in the template (.dwt) file itself, then select the class= of your first menu item and choose .. (names might be off, I am using a non-English copy of DW): "modify > template > make attribute editable" from the main menu. Do so for all your menu items and name these new template properties something like "item_x_class"
You'll end up with something like this in your template source:
<div class="@@(item_1_class)@@">
and a matching
 in the header
Now, on each page, you can set the class within the template properties dialog ("modify > template properties"). If your main menu changes, it won't overwrite your template properties, but still update all pages when you do make a change to the menu.
If you're using multiple templates for your site, consider nesting templates, so the master template already includes your navbar and all subsequent templates will "inherit" changes to the navbar code (sans the editable class property).
Hope this helps.. or at least gives you an idea for further experiments..
Stephan

How to use a Spry Menu as a Library item?

Okay, this is my second post; but, with a different title.
I made a Spry menu for my Home Page. I saved it and a logo
together as a library item and placed the library item on a second
page. The links in the menu work when there is no style sheet
attached for the Spry meny and the menu appears just as text; but,
as soon as the .css style sheet for the menu is attached to the
second page, the menu appears correct except the drop down menus do
not work. I tried adding a link to the Spry Java Script file as it
is on the home page; still no luck.
I tried the same with a test file, which I have since
removed, stored at the same folder as the home page; same problem.
How are we suposed to make a workable library item with a
Spry Menu? Surely this is possible, no?
Here are the two pages I am referring to:
Good Page:
http://iculver.com/
Bad Page:
http://iculver.com/pages/AboutUs/Personal_info.html

Apologies - my mistake. You are correct, and my instructions
were
incomplete. That other bit is required too.
> Now, I thought (probably in error) that items after !--
were comments, but
> it
> seems to be required, too. I tried eliminating taht part
and the menus did
> not
> work. I need all of this last part.
The comments 'hide' the scripting from validators and older
browsers, but
it's still recognized as javascript, since the comments occur
INSIDE a
<script> tag.
> these Spry Menus in Libraries easier to use...)
It's not so hard once you get all the pieces together.
1. Create the library item as described.
2. Make sure that each page that is to carry this library
item has the
required links in the head (to the CSS and the js files), AND
in the body.
Why not use a template instead? That way, all of these links
are managed
for you.
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> Hummm...
>
> Now, don't yell at me, okay? I'm a goLive switcher and
really a graphic
> designer, not a coder...
>
> So, It seems from the above message that I am to
establish the links to
> the
> script and the css file before inserting the library
item. But, either
> way,
> that didn;t do the trick for me. I did find a bit of
code in one of the
> pages
> that seems to be required.
>
> It seems I also need to insert this just before the
close of the body tag:
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> 
> </script>
>
> Now, I thought (probably in error) that items after !--
were comments, but
> it
> seems to be required, too. I tried eliminating taht part
and the menus did
> not
> work. I need all of this last part.
>
> I'm sorry I'm such a dope. I probably did something
funny when I was
> styling
> the menu. (I do hope Adobe can accommodate dopes lime
me, though, and make
> these Spry Menus in Libraries easier to use...)
>
> Thanks for all of your help! Really!
>

How I add a LIBRARY ITEM to a page layout, top/bottom ?

how I add a LIBRARY ITEM to a page layout, top/bottom ? in
dwmr mx 2004 and cs4 ?

Have you looked at the DW help file - it will explain all
about library items :-)
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> how I add a LIBRARY ITEM to a page layout, top/bottom ?
in dwmr mx 2004 and cs4 ?

Help: How to add a library item to hide the default Window menu

Hi,
In this post: Help: How to add a library item to hide the default Window menu, it described how to create an menu that will hide the default window menu.
I'd like to know if there a way to put this component into library so that others can directly inherit this menu in other FORMS and how to implement it.
Jimmy

Hi,
I found the solution and the post was not properly phrased. There is no need to add menu into library. All we need is to put the compiled menu into Oracle AS and add the menu name the menu module of the given form.
Thanks.
Jimmy

Error message with library item in template

I'm not sure if this is a PM issue or a DWCS3 issue. The only
way to find out is to ask.
I have gone through the process of creating a a library item
of a
PopMagic menu according the the video provided by P7. Works
well.
Then I added the library item to an existing DWCS3 template
and saved
it. When I attempt to create "new from template" page from
the template
menu, I get this error message
http://www.jdcdemo.com/blf/error.html
If I do the same with a template without the menu, the
error message goes away.
If I create a page with from a template where I've left an
editable
region for the menu and then insert the menu and save the
page, I also
get the error message, but the page seems to work ok.
Since I can't create a new page with the template, I opened
it and saved it as a page:
http://www.jdcdemo.com/baim/BLF8/error-message.html
What is going on here and is there a fix?
Thanks,
Joe

Look at your code. Count <body> tags. How many do you
get? Yeah - that's
wrong. You didn't follow the video....
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> I'm not sure if this is a PM issue or a DWCS3 issue. The
only way to find
> out
> is to ask.
> I have gone through the process of creating a a library
item of a
> PopMagic menu according the the video provided by P7.
Works well.
> Then I added the library item to an existing DWCS3
template and saved
> it. When I attempt to create "new from template" page
from the template
> menu, I get this error message
>
>
http://www.jdcdemo.com/blf/error.html
>
> If I do the same with a template without the menu, the
> error message goes away.
>
> If I create a page with from a template where I've left
an editable
> region for the menu and then insert the menu and save
the page, I also
> get the error message, but the page seems to work ok.
>
> Since I can't create a new page with the template, I
opened it and saved
> it as
> a page:
>
>
http://www.jdcdemo.com/baim/BLF8/error-message.html
>
> What is going on here and is there a fix?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>

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