Repeating Region Mystery

Hello all,
I've been working with templates for the past few weeks and I'm loving it!
Everything has gone smoothly till now. I'm having a very unsual problem with repeating regions and I can't seem to figure out what is causing it. Hopefully someone here can shed some light on this issue.
Basically, I have two templates: one parent and one child template. There are two repeating regions in total.
Problem: When I create a new page using the child template, the repeating regions disappear completely. Meaning, all the repeating region code surrounding an element is completely gone. In fact, my repeating regions have an editable region within it and they disappear with the repeating region! However, when I create a new page using the parent template itself, the repeating regions are there and everything is functioning as it should.
This is only happening with repeating regions. All editable regions, separate from repeating regions, are there.
I would really appreciate the help!
Thanks!

I had no idea that nested templates are a serious problem in Dreamweaver.
It's not. It's a serious problem for users who opt to use them. Why? Because any benefit you derive from the coolness is more than offset by the disadvantages you experience down the road from their use. I am a devout user of templates and have never found a single scenario where the use of nested templates would help.
Most of my knowledge of Dreamweaver comes from Lynda.com's videos. I'm surprised that the instructor behind those videos never mentioned any such problem about nested templates.
Me too. To me this says that they have never *actually* used them either. It's very disappointing.
Is there any other way to replicate this functionality?
Yes, in every case there is. But first tell me how you were going to use them, please. What specifically is it about them that you were going to leverage in your page design?
When working with templates, 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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          if (!ele || !className || (ele.className && ele.className.search(new RegExp("\\b" + className + "\\b")) == -1))
                    return;
          ele.className = ele.className.replace(new RegExp("\\s*\\b" + className + "\\b", "g"), "");
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.setOptions = function(obj, optionsObj, ignoreUndefinedProps)
          if (!optionsObj)
                    return;
          for (var optionName in optionsObj)
                    if (ignoreUndefinedProps && optionsObj[optionName] == undefined)
                              continue;
                    obj[optionName] = optionsObj[optionName];
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.getTabGroup = function()
          if (this.element)
                    var children = this.getElementChildren(this.element);
                    if (children.length)
                              return children[0];
          return null;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.getTabs = function()
          var tabs = [];
          var tg = this.getTabGroup();
          if (tg)
                    tabs = this.getElementChildren(tg);
          return tabs;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.getContentPanelGroup = function()
          if (this.element)
                    var children = this.getElementChildren(this.element);
                    if (children.length > 1)
                              return children[1];
          return null;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.getContentPanels = function()
          var panels = [];
          var pg = this.getContentPanelGroup();
          if (pg)
                    panels = this.getElementChildren(pg);
          return panels;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.getIndex = function(ele, arr)
          ele = this.getElement(ele);
          if (ele && arr && arr.length)
                    for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++)
                              if (ele == arr[i])
                                        return i;
          return -1;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.getTabIndex = function(ele)
          var i = this.getIndex(ele, this.getTabs());
          if (i < 0)
                    i = this.getIndex(ele, this.getContentPanels());
          return i;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.getCurrentTabIndex = function()
          return this.currentTabIndex;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.getTabbedPanelCount = function(ele)
          return Math.min(this.getTabs().length, this.getContentPanels().length);
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.addEventListener = function(element, eventType, handler, capture)
          try
                    if (element.addEventListener)
                              element.addEventListener(eventType, handler, capture);
                    else if (element.attachEvent)
                              element.attachEvent("on" + eventType, handler);
          catch (e) {}
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.cancelEvent = function(e)
          if (e.preventDefault) e.preventDefault();
          else e.returnValue = false;
          if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation();
          else e.cancelBubble = true;
          return false;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.onTabClick = function(e, tab)
          this.showPanel(tab);
          return this.cancelEvent(e);
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.onTabMouseOver = function(e, tab)
          this.addClassName(tab, this.tabHoverClass);
          return false;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.onTabMouseOut = function(e, tab)
          this.removeClassName(tab, this.tabHoverClass);
          return false;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.onTabFocus = function(e, tab)
          this.hasFocus = true;
          this.addClassName(tab, this.tabFocusedClass);
          return false;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.onTabBlur = function(e, tab)
          this.hasFocus = false;
          this.removeClassName(tab, this.tabFocusedClass);
          return false;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.KEY_UP = 38;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.KEY_DOWN = 40;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.KEY_LEFT = 37;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.KEY_RIGHT = 39;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.onTabKeyDown = function(e, tab)
          var key = e.keyCode;
          if (!this.hasFocus || (key != this.previousPanelKeyCode && key != this.nextPanelKeyCode))
                    return true;
          var tabs = this.getTabs();
          for (var i =0; i < tabs.length; i++)
                    if (tabs[i] == tab)
                              var el = false;
                              if (key == this.previousPanelKeyCode && i > 0)
                                        el = tabs[i-1];
                              else if (key == this.nextPanelKeyCode && i < tabs.length-1)
                                        el = tabs[i+1];
                              if (el)
                                        this.showPanel(el);
                                        el.focus();
                                        break;
          return this.cancelEvent(e);
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.preorderTraversal = function(root, func)
          var stopTraversal = false;
          if (root)
                    stopTraversal = func(root);
                    if (root.hasChildNodes())
                              var child = root.firstChild;
                              while (!stopTraversal && child)
                                        stopTraversal = this.preorderTraversal(child, func);
                                        try { child = child.nextSibling; } catch (e) { child = null; }
          return stopTraversal;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.addPanelEventListeners = function(tab, panel)
          var self = this;
          Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.addEventListener(tab, "click", function(e) { return self.onTabClick(e, tab); }, false);
          Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.addEventListener(tab, "mouseover", function(e) { return self.onTabMouseOver(e, tab); }, false);
          Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.addEventListener(tab, "mouseout", function(e) { return self.onTabMouseOut(e, tab); }, false);
          if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
                    // XXX: IE doesn't allow the setting of tabindex dynamically. This means we can't
                    // rely on adding the tabindex attribute if it is missing to enable keyboard navigation
                    // by default.
                    // Find the first element within the tab container that has a tabindex or the first
                    // anchor tag.
                    var tabIndexEle = null;
                    var tabAnchorEle = null;
                    this.preorderTraversal(tab, function(node) {
                              if (node.nodeType == 1 /* NODE.ELEMENT_NODE */)
                                        var tabIndexAttr = tab.attributes.getNamedItem("tabindex");
                                        if (tabIndexAttr)
                                                  tabIndexEle = node;
                                                  return true;
                                        if (!tabAnchorEle && node.nodeName.toLowerCase() == "a")
                                                  tabAnchorEle = node;
                              return false;
                    if (tabIndexEle)
                              this.focusElement = tabIndexEle;
                    else if (tabAnchorEle)
                              this.focusElement = tabAnchorEle;
                    if (this.focusElement)
                              Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.addEventListener(this.focusElement, "focus", function(e) { return self.onTabFocus(e, tab); }, false);
                              Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.addEventListener(this.focusElement, "blur", function(e) { return self.onTabBlur(e, tab); }, false);
                              Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.addEventListener(this.focusElement, "keydown", function(e) { return self.onTabKeyDown(e, tab); }, false);
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.showPanel = function(elementOrIndex)
          var tpIndex = -1;
          if (typeof elementOrIndex == "number")
                    tpIndex = elementOrIndex;
          else // Must be the element for the tab or content panel.
                    tpIndex = this.getTabIndex(elementOrIndex);
          if (!tpIndex < 0 || tpIndex >= this.getTabbedPanelCount())
                    return;
          var tabs = this.getTabs();
          var panels = this.getContentPanels();
          var numTabbedPanels = Math.max(tabs.length, panels.length);
          for (var i = 0; i < numTabbedPanels; i++)
                    if (i != tpIndex)
                              if (tabs[i])
                                        this.removeClassName(tabs[i], this.tabSelectedClass);
                              if (panels[i])
                                        this.removeClassName(panels[i], this.panelVisibleClass);
                                        panels[i].style.display = "none";
          this.addClassName(tabs[tpIndex], this.tabSelectedClass);
          this.addClassName(panels[tpIndex], this.panelVisibleClass);
          panels[tpIndex].style.display = "block";
          this.currentTabIndex = tpIndex;
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels.prototype.attachBehaviors = function(element)
          var tabs = this.getTabs();
          var panels = this.getContentPanels();
          var panelCount = this.getTabbedPanelCount();
          for (var i = 0; i < panelCount; i++)
                    this.addPanelEventListeners(tabs[i], panels[i]);
          this.showPanel(this.defaultTab);
})(); // EndSpryComponent
>CSS file
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryTabbedPanels.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
/* Horizontal Tabbed Panels
* The default style for a TabbedPanels widget places all tab buttons
* (left aligned) above the content panel.
/* This is the selector for the main TabbedPanels container. For our
* default style, this container does not contribute anything visually,
* but it is floated left to make sure that any floating or clearing done
* with any of its child elements are contained completely within the
* TabbedPanels container, to minimize any impact or undesireable
* interaction with other floated elements on the page that may be used
* for layout.
* If you want to constrain the width of the TabbedPanels widget, set a
* width on the TabbedPanels container. By default, the TabbedPanels widget
* expands horizontally to fill up available space.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanels") used in this selector is not
* necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you
* want to style the TabbedPanels container.
.TabbedPanels {
          overflow: hidden;
          margin: 0px;
          padding: 0px;
          clear: none;
          width: 100%; /* IE Hack to force proper layout when preceded by a paragraph. (hasLayout Bug)*/
/* This is the selector for the TabGroup. The TabGroup container houses
* all of the tab buttons for each tabbed panel in the widget. This container
* does not contribute anything visually to the look of the widget for our
* default style.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsTabGroup") used in this selector is not
* necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you
* want to style the TabGroup container.
.TabbedPanelsTabGroup {
          margin: 0px;
          padding: 0px;
/* This is the selector for the TabbedPanelsTab. This container houses
* the title for the panel. This is also the tab "button" that the user clicks
* on to activate the corresponding content panel so that it appears on top
* of the other tabbed panels contained in the widget.
* For our default style, each tab is positioned relatively 1 pixel down from
* where it wold normally render. This allows each tab to overlap the content
* panel that renders below it. Each tab is rendered with a 1 pixel bottom
* border that has a color that matches the top border of the current content
* panel. This gives the appearance that the tab is being drawn behind the
* content panel.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsTab") used in this selector is not
* necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you want
* to style this tab container.
.TabbedPanelsTab {
          position: relative;
          top: 1px;
          float: left;
          background-color: #DDD;
          list-style: none;
          -moz-user-select: none;
          -khtml-user-select: none;
          cursor: pointer;
          font-family: sans-serif;
          font-size: small;
          font-weight: bold;
          margin-top: 0px;
          margin-right: 1px;
          margin-bottom: 0px;
          margin-left: 0px;
          padding-top: 4px;
          padding-right: 10px;
          padding-left: 10px;
          padding-bottom: 4px;
/* This selector is an example of how to change the appearnce of a tab button
* container as the mouse enters it. The class "TabbedPanelsTabHover" is
* programatically added and removed from the tab element as the mouse enters
* and exits the container.
.TabbedPanelsTabHover {
          background-color: #CCC;
/* This selector is an example of how to change the appearance of a tab button
* container after the user has clicked on it to activate a content panel.
* The class "TabbedPanelsTabSelected" is programatically added and removed
* from the tab element as the user clicks on the tab button containers in
* the widget.
* As mentioned above, for our default style, tab buttons are positioned
* 1 pixel down from where it would normally render. When the tab button is
* selected, we change its bottom border to match the background color of the
* content panel so that it looks like the tab is part of the content panel.
.TabbedPanelsTabSelected {
          background-color: #FFF;
          color: #333;
          border-top-color: fff;
          border-right-color: fff;
          border-bottom-color: fff;
          border-left-color: fff;
          border-color: fff;
          outline-color: fff;
/* This selector is an example of how to make a link inside of a tab button
* look like normal text. Users may want to use links inside of a tab button
* so that when it gets focus, the text *inside* the tab button gets a focus
* ring around it, instead of the focus ring around the entire tab.
.TabbedPanelsTab a {
          color: black;
          text-decoration: none;
/* This is the selector for the ContentGroup. The ContentGroup container houses
* all of the content panels for each tabbed panel in the widget. For our
* default style, this container provides the background color and borders that
* surround the content.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsContentGroup") used in this selector is
* not necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you
* want to style the ContentGroup container.
.TabbedPanelsContentGroup {
          clear: both;
          background-color: #F9F9F1;
          height: auto;
          margin-bottom: 3px;
          border: .1px solid #999;
/* This is the selector for the Content panel. The Content panel holds the
* content for a single tabbed panel. For our default style, this container
* provides some padding, so that the content is not pushed up against the
* widget borders.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsContent") used in this selector is
* not necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you
* want to style the Content container.
.TabbedPanelsContent {
          overflow: hidden;
          padding: 4px;
/* This selector is an example of how to change the appearnce of the currently
* active container panel. The class "TabbedPanelsContentVisible" is
* programatically added and removed from the content element as the panel
* is activated/deactivated.
.TabbedPanelsContentVisible {
          background-color: #FFF;
          font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
          font-size: 0.75em;
          color: #333;
          padding: 20px;
          clear: both;
          margin-bottom: 5px;
          height: auto;
/* Vertical Tabbed Panels
* The following rules override some of the default rules above so that the
* TabbedPanels widget renders with its tab buttons along the left side of
* the currently active content panel.
* With the rules defined below, the only change that will have to be made
* to switch a horizontal tabbed panels widget to a vertical tabbed panels
* widget, is to use the "VTabbedPanels" class on the top-level widget
* container element, instead of "TabbedPanels".
.VTabbedPanels {
          overflow: hidden;
          zoom: 1;
/* This selector floats the TabGroup so that the tab buttons it contains
* render to the left of the active content panel. A border is drawn around
* the group container to make it look like a list container.
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsTabGroup {
          float: left;
          width: 10em;
          height: 20em;
          background-color: #EEE;
          position: relative;
          border-top: solid 1px #999;
          border-right: solid 1px #999;
          border-left: solid 1px #CCC;
          border-bottom: solid 1px #CCC;
/* This selector disables the float property that is placed on each tab button
* by the default TabbedPanelsTab selector rule above. It also draws a bottom
* border for the tab. The tab button will get its left and right border from
* the TabGroup, and its top border from the TabGroup or tab button above it.
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsTab {
          float: none;
          margin: 0px;
          border-top: none;
          border-left: none;
          border-right: none;
/* This selector disables the float property that is placed on each tab button
* by the default TabbedPanelsTab selector rule above. It also draws a bottom
* border for the tab. The tab button will get its left and right border from
* the TabGroup, and its top border from the TabGroup or tab button above it.
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsTabSelected {
          background-color: #EEE;
          border-bottom: solid 1px #999;
/* This selector floats the content panels for the widget so that they
* render to the right of the tabbed buttons.
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsContentGroup {
          clear: none;
          float: left;
          padding: 0px;
          width: 30em;
          height: 20em;
/* Styles for Printing */
@media print {
.TabbedPanels {
          overflow: visible !important;
.TabbedPanelsContentGroup {
          display: block !important;
          overflow: visible !important;
          height: auto !important;
.TabbedPanelsContent {
          overflow: visible !important;
          display: block !important;
          clear:both !important;
.TabbedPanelsTab {
          overflow: visible !important;
          display: block !important;
          clear:none !important;
          height: 100%;
#TabbedPanels1 {
          height: auto;
          padding-top: 5px;
          background-color: #EAEAEA;
          width: 700px;
I did read this but don't know where to start: http://www.webdevforums.com/showthread.php?27428-Dreamweaver-spry-collapsible-panel-amp-re peating-regions
Can anybody HELP PLEASE PLEASE

I think I counted three tabbed panels in the markup, each with an ID of TabbedPanels1
You have only one constructor that makes one instance of the tabeed panels with an ID of TabbedPanels1
There are a couple of things that create the problem.
There can only be one ID with the same name in a document, thus the ID's of the TabbedPanels will need to change from TabbedPanels1 for the second and third instances to TabbedPanels2 and TabbedPanels3 (or similar) respectively.
There needs to be a constructor for each tabbed panels like
var TabbedPanels1 = new Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels("TabbedPanels1");
var TabbedPanels2 = new Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels("TabbedPanels2");
var TabbedPanels3 = new Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels("TabbedPanels3");
Gramps

Help I can't get my images and description from recordset to display in repeat region table

Hi everyone,
could somebody please help me, this is my first php and mysql website, I have a web page that is supposed to display a table with 2 rows 3 columns.
In each column i want an image, a description and a paypal button.
then i have a repeat region placed around the second row which should display 3 records at a time.
The recordset worked when I tested it several times, and the paypal button displays in the browser, but the image and the description won't display and the repeat region doesn't work either as only one button paypal button displays.
I have uploaded the actual page, in the hope that some could take a look and help me to find out what the problem is.
Thanks

In the second row, did you mean you want the three fields to display, not three records? A record is one row of data.
Start by getting a single row to display, and leave the paypal button out for now. So that means you will see the first record in your recordset, the image and description. To view the description, use the data bindings panel, expand the recordset and drag the description field onto the page in the table. For the image, insert and image placeholder and point the source to a dynamic data source. Again, choose the approprate field from your recordset.
Once that record is working, add your repeat region and test.
For the Paypal button, I am not sure if each button will carry the correct information with it in a repeat region. There has to be a way to dynamicall add the approprate data to the paypal link for each record. You may want to also incude checkboxes or radio buttons and have only 1 paypal button - but that introduces other issues which we can tackle later.

Contribute Acting strange - template parameters with repeating regions

Basically what I'm trying to achieve is that there is a
repeating region on a page, and each region is supposed to
alternate colors. To achieve this, the regions with the colors are
put into a div which has a background color applied to it. To do
this, I have created two expressions, one to check to see if it's
an even numbered region, and if so, to open the div, and another to
close the div. That looks like this:
quote:

@@((_index & 1) ? shade : noshade )@@
stuff
@@((_index & 1) ? shadeend : noshade )@@

At the top, I have three template parameters to go along with
these:
quote:



Which look like this on the actual pages:
quote:



The odd thing is that, when I add an editable region,
something weird occurs with the template parameters and they end up
looking like this:
quote:
->

And that, of course, results in having a nice "->" showing
up at the top of my page. The repeating region appears to work. It
changes background colors just like it should, but I have no idea
why it's throwing in the "->" at the end.

For grins, try changing this -
<div id="content1" style="display:none">
to this (IN THE TEMPLATE FILE) -
<div id="content@@(_repeat._index)@@''
style="display:none">
(that should be a " character after the last @ sign - I had
to use two '
characters to keep the code from getting munged in my
newsreader)
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
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"Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:g2m3cq$85h$[email protected]..
>I need to see the template markup around the repeating
region, please.
>
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> "ITLogic" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:g2m25n$6se$[email protected]..
>> Sure. I'm using DW CS3. Here is a copy of the
repeating regions I'm
>> trying to
>> create. Notice each DIV has a sequential ID. I could
go hand edit this,
>> but I'm
>> trying to automate it as much as possible. I am
selling Contribute as a
>> means
>> for clients to edit their own content. Most don't
know how to spell HTML
>> much
>> less know how to use it.
>>
>> <div id="content0" style="display:''">
>>
>> 
>>
>> <p>Hello</p>
>>
>> 
>>
>> </div>
>>
>> <div id="content1" style="display:none">
>>
>> 
>>
>> <p>World</p>
>>
>> 
>>
>> </div>
>>
>

Nested templates - problems with inheriting editable/repeating regions

I have made a template called 'basic', with 2 sections, 'maincontent' and 'sidecontent' then nested a template in it called 'home'. In 'home', I have made repeats of some regions (sidecontent) and edited them to make a section I want on all 'home' type pages. When I make a new document from 'basic', it has all the same editable and repeating regions as 'basic'. But when I make a new document from 'home' there are no editable or repeating regions, either in 'sidecontent' which I edited or 'maincontent' which I didn't. I want to be able to edit 'maincontent' when I make a new document from 'home', to make repeating regions and edit them. Please can you advise me what to do?
Thanks

When I tried to attach the files it automatically zipped them again, so I have put the code above.
Thanks,
Rachel

Nested Repeat Regions in Dreamweaver 8

I am waying the option of upgrading from MX to 8 or just
getting MX Looper to do nested repeat regions. Any advice? Are
nested repeat regions built into Dreamweaver 8?

SmellyPete wrote:
> I've got a problem with nested templates in my site. I
don't think it's an
> error or bug as such, just a really strange limitation,
that I hope there is a
> work around for.
>
> I've setup a menubar with a repeating table region in a
template. Then I laid
> out the content (editable) regions in a nested template.
The system works
> really well in dreamweaver, if you want to add a menu
item, you do so to the
> parent template, and then it filters through out the
site.
>
> The problem is that when I try to edit the pages as a
client with contribute
> (even as an administrator) it will not allow access to
edit a .dwt file, even
> if it has editable regions in it. This means I can't use
contribute to add an
> item to the menubar, because I need to be able to edit
the nested template. I'm
> sure it's possible, because a .dwt is just an .htm file
with a different hat on.
>
> There must be some way of doing this. As soon as I read
about the template
> system I immediately thought this would be one of it's
strengths, and would be
> very surprised if the contribute user were limited to
making changes on every
> individual page.
>
> PS. I'm sure someone will suggest that I just move the
repeating region into
> the nested template. I could do this, but the whole
point is that with one
> change I want it to will filter down through the whole
site. I thought maybe
> SSI might be the answer, but would that just confuse
contribute even more?
>
It seems to me the whole point of using Contribute is to keep
users from
changing basic site configurations such as the menu. Use
Dreamweaver or
one of the simple HTML editors around.

Repeating regions not working in Contribute 6.5

Repeating regions that work inside Dreamweaver aren't working in Contribute 6.5 where I get the error message "You can't add items to repeating regions because the draft's parent template is missing or not available to users in your role. Please contact the website administrator"
My role is administrator and this happens on pages based on single templates and nested templates as well as local files and pages published on a site.
The problem seems to run through several different versions of Contribute going back at least 5 years but I haven't found a solution yet.

For me the problem is different. I don't even get to to see the add/delete buttons, so I can not add och delete a new region! I am tryong to chat with the adobe support right now, but I am not feeling very succesful. Is anyone from Adobe reading this? (It is working in CS5)

Repeat regions not working in Contribute

I've got a problem with repeat regions inside templated
pages. When in contribute, I can't seem to add a new repeat region
by clicking on the plus (+) button, although it works fine in
dreamweaver. It isn't a permissions issue as far as I can tell,
since all roles have the ability to see and edit all documents, but
I can't figure out what else could be going on here. Any
ideas?

I think it's just a problem with Contribute's handling of
PHP. There was a small chunk of PHP code in a library item that had
to be removed. I was trying to save the value of a server variable
into a local variable, but had to end up putting the exact same
call in an inclue file instead. I just put the include statement
inside the library item so it showed up site-wide. The include
statement didn't do anything screwing during 'edit mode' in
Contribute, so that was the workaround.

PDF Template (repeating regions) correct version of Adobe Acrobat

Hi,
I want to build a PDF template for a Payslip I am knocking up at the moment and have come to the conclusion this may be easier as a PDF template rather than an RTF template.
The reason being I have multiple repeating regions in the payslip (earnings, deductions, salary history, payments) all of which could overflow onto another sheet of stationary when the job is run. If you think RTF is a better solution please post and let me know how I should achieve this. Or indeed if you think PDF is wrong also please let me know.
So I want to build a PDF template to utilise its overflow handling but what version of Adobe acrobat do I then need? 9 is the current release and there is a "Standard", "Pro" and "Pro-Extended" version of the software each with escalating costs associated. I see in Tim's blog the PDF has to be in the 1.4 specification which all the versions since 5 seem to support.
If you need anymore info in order to please let me know.
Cheers
Doug

Agreed RTF is a lot simpler to create and maintain.
I cannot seem to get my RTF template to behave with overflowing properties my basic design is Below (excuse the odd way of displaying it but I'm sure you get the idea). So any 1 of 4 repeating groups could go over their limits (I have currently hardcoded the loop limit in the group). I need the basic Emp info the Address info and the random info on each sheet.
I've been around the forum and all over the net (Anil Passi's site, XML/BI Publisher Blog etc.) looking at the solutions people have used for invoices and PO's but I cannot seem to use them in my case.
Any help you or anyone else could give on the subject would be gratefully received.
************************* Basic Emp info *************************
****Earnings Repeating Group***** ****Deductions Repeating Group*******
************************* Total Info *************************
*****Payments Repeating Group**** *****Salary Repeating Group *****
More random info ..
More random info ..
More random info ..
More random info ..
********************Address and Postal Info***********************
Cheers
Doug

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Hi Guys,
I'm pretty sure this question would have been asked many times before. If so, first of all my apologies for re-posting this.
Anyway, what I'm trying to do is create a repeat region that spans for 4 columns and then repeats the rest in rows. For example, if I have 100 records in my table (MySQL), then I want to display this in a table of 4 columns and and 25 rows (in reality, the number of records would be unspecified, of course, but still the records need to be displayed on a 4 column, X row table). For example:
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comment
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name
comment
name
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name
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name
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1. To see the code from the page.
2. To know the order of the results is it:
Horizontal: 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
Or Vertical:
1 5
2 6
3 7
4 8

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I hope somebody can help me with this. I use php/MySQL.
I need t create a repeated region which doen't include the last item (post) added to the table.
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