Style Sheets & templates enquiry

I am only just getting into using Style Sheets but am not sure if I can assign a particular location & width to a paragraph, which, if changed, will change all documents using it?
Is there a way to create a dynamic template in InDesign which is referenced/ linked to all the documents based on it?
Thanks

There is no dynamic styles (like CSS) in InDesign, but you can use Book feature for synchronizing styles between documents.
You can´t define size or location parameters of a column with paragraph style, with object styles you can define fixed width of column if it helps.....

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Mapping style templates and properties to Actual Style Sheet Classes

I got this response to an email regarding creating a customized style sheet and thought others might find it useful following is my initial question and the response from David Phipps. If anyone else has input to this conversation please join in.
Initial question: I'm trying to create a highly customized style sheet and could use a matrix that maps the various properties to the styles that each property affects. I have had some success determining the specific styles that I would like to change but am unable to use the style mill with any efficacy to make those changes. We are attempting to create a single language style sheet with a unique color scheme that matches our branding. One big problem we have run into is that certain styles are called in multiple places with different backgrounds (i.e. breadcrumbText). Any help along these lines that you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Response:The CSS style mapping is not terribly satisfying right now; many objects share common CSS styles, which means if you change one tiny thing the whole page changes. We don't have a matrix or spreadsheet or styleguide that lays out the page itself and defines the styles used in each point. However, the stylesheet mill should work for you, and it's possible that what you have going on is a problem with your mill or an incomplete copy of what it generates.
There are 18 styles in the portal currently; you can actually create new styles and populate them, which sounds like the option you are interested in. The mill is just an ANT script that uses the template files in the templates directory and combines them with the property files in the prop-color and prop-text directories.
The prop-text files are per language (10 languages); if you check you'll see the values are all the same right now; the idea is you could change the font names or sizes per-language if you wanted to.
The prop-color files are per style (18 styles). If you want a new set of property values for, say, style 19, you'd add a file called color.19.properties, and the mill would pick that up and generate 190 files (19 styles x 10 languages). It would then add a new line to community-themes.txt, which has a name of each style for each language, based on data it picked up from your new color.19.properties file.
The real secret is that you only add color style elements you want to override. If you want a specific set of styles to always be available, just add them directly to the appropriate template file (in your case, the portal50.template file) without using the @variable@ in place of actual values. Then you're just adding new style overrides that apply everywhere.
Finally, you can add arbitrary new properties to your new prtoperties file and use those in the template:
in portal50.template:
..actionbarPortletBg {background-color: @personal.and.interesting.setting@;}
in color.19.properties:
personal.and.interesting.setting=#ff9900
So the CSS mill is just a glorified text replacement tool.
Remember that the CSS mill works this way:
- Run make_all.bat if you're not sure and want to insure you've remilled everything, otherwise use make_community_css.bat or make_menu.bat to remill only community styles or those for the jsportalmenus dropdown, respectively.
- The resulting files are created in ptimages/tools/cssmill/css
- You have to copy the resulting files by hand to the imageserver CSS location, which is
ptimages/imageserver/plumtree/common/public/css
- You have to forcibly stop and restart your imageserver, be it Apache, Tomcat, IIS, Websphere or whatever; no matter what anyone says the new content won't show up reliably until you restart your imageserver.
You probably know all this and your real problem is the CSS is not specific enough, that is, you can't get individual items to change like you want. We have been working on this, and the new version of the portal will have much more addressable CSS styles, including the ability to specify styles for individual navigation elements, individual pages, and individual portlets. This basically meant rewriting the HTML we generate, of course.
Since you can override and rewrite chunks of our HTML as well using View Overrides, if you're in a jam we can walk you through how to rewrite specific bits of the UI that are causing you trouble - for instance, the code that generates the breadcrumbs itself.
David Phipps
Senior Engineering Manager
Plumtree Software

One way to do this is to give the <body> tag an ID. In a template, you need to make the ID attribute of the <body> tag editable.
You would then have something like this in your style sheet:
#home.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li,
#services.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li,
#about.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li,
#contact.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li,
#testimonials.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li,
#links.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li
background-color:
#66ccFF;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style:
solid;
border-bottom-color: #FFFFFF;

Problems attaching an external style sheet to several HTML files created with a template

Hello All;
I've been working on a task that should have taken me a few minutes but instead, it's been taken all day.
I am creating a site using a template and out of the template, I've created about 6 html files each of which is a different page off the main menu.
I created a blank css file and tried to attach it to one of the menu pages but it keeps saying that the link failed.
If you want to see my code, follow the link below ...
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I am trying to attach a separate style sheet to this page so that I can style the table differently than other pages that use a table but up until now, I have not figured out how to do that in DW. I am not proficient at writing CSS code directly so I am using DW - hope that's possible.
While templates seem very useful, they are also a source of fustration for the beginner.
Tim

To add to what Snakeyes has said, it should have created the "head" editable region to include your <title> opening and closing tags. So I would suggest that you change this
<title>Balloonsat High Altitude Flight (BHALF) - Home</title>
To this

<title>Balloonsat High Altitude Flight (BHALF) - Home</title>

Then directly after the closing <title> tag, add whatever head content you need.
Gary

How to use own style sheet in user interface templates to change buttons, fields look

I want to use my own style sheet to change the appearance of buttons, form fields etc. while applying my own user interface template. I know I can create an unstructured UI template to change logos, body color etc. but how do I apply css to buttons, fields generated by the portal components form wizard ?
If this is not possible, how do I create my own form and get the same functionalities of a wizard generated form ?
Thanks.

Mrinal,
I have solved that problem fortunately.
What I did was to create my own unstructured user interface template. In the unstructured UI template, you can use style.
for example, in between the <head> tags, write <style> tages and create own classes for buttons, textboxes etc.
Then write a javascript to assign those classes to the buttons. Call the javascript function on OnLoad event in <BODY> tag.
That will do the job.
for example you have a style class called buttonclass for buttons.
<script langauge=javascript1.1>
function setstyle(form) {
for (var i=0; i<form.length; i++) {
if (form.elements.type == 'button') {
form.elements[i].className = "buttonclass";
</script>
<BODY onLoad = "setstyle(document.forms[0]);">
hope this helps.
Mainak

Designer6i: About templates and style sheets.

How "About Page template filename (DOCTAP)" Use this preference to identify a document template for the About Page.

The email content can be HTML content. We dont' restrict what goes in the HTML content and hence you can inline the css or refer to a hosted CSS (absolute path). There are no sample templates or style sheets shipped with the product.

How to bring Sample CSS Style Sheets into a Template?

I am creating a site from scratch using CS4 Template. Can I incorporate more than one DW Sample CSS Style Sheet? And how do I bring them into the Template site?
Thanks, g

Thank you. I added the 3 sample css style sheets I want to use into my site. Now I am trying to bring a different sample css into different sections of the layout. Example:
Sidebar 1: green/yellow
Sidebar 2: red/yellow
Middle: blue/yellow
I seem to only be able to have one for the whole page. Is this true?
What I am doing is clicking on the div tag: <div.sidebar#sidebar1>, then "Edit CSS" and then scroll down in the Class window to "attach style sheet" and there at the bottom is a link to the sample css style sheets. I click on the one I want and it changes the css for the whole page not just the sidebar 1. Is there a way I can get a different css sample style sheet for each sidebar in a 3 column layout, and a different sample css for the middle?
thank you very much

Losing attached style sheets when updating template

I am creating a new site using Dreamweaver CS3, temporarily uploaded at:
http://www.sharpeacademy.co.uk/nick-jackson.co.uk/sharpeacademy/theatrearts/
All my pages are created from a master template which contains formatting for the header, sidebar and footer.
When subsequent pages were created, I attached new style sheets as and when I added new sections to the main content area.
The problem I am having now is, when I update the template all these style sheets are being detached from the relevent pages and I have to reattach each time. I tried attaching them to the template but it didn't help.

That's what I thought (I say, trying to sound like I know what I'm doing!)
This is the relevant code for my page - in this instance it's a tabbed panel which is losing the formatting:
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">


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<head>
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The style sheet looks like it's there in the code but it doesn't show in my css palette.
If I then re-attach it appears twice in the code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<link href="../css/locationTabbedPanel.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />


<script src="../javascript/locationTabbedPanel.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../css/locationTabbedPanel.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<head>
<link href="../css/sidebarNav_theatrearts.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="../javascript/sidebarEmail.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../javascript/sidebarEmail_theatrearts.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../css/sharpeacademy_textStyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="../css/sidebarEmail_theatrearts.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="../javascript/jquery-1.2.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../javascript/menu-collapsed.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

If I then make any changes to the template, I'm back where I started. I've just about got my head around Dreamweaver but there's a long way to go to understand the coding.

Web template style sheets(.css) !!!

Hi,
where can I create my own style sheet for the web template and also how can i edit the exisitng style sheet in BW..
Thanks for your help in advance,
AC..

You can create your own using notepad or any other authoring tool. To get a stylesheet from the BW server, go to the Mime Repository (Transaction SE80). From there you need to find it in the directories. Normally it is in the SAP->Public->BW->BEx->Stylesheets or BW->Customer->Stylesheets. You can import, export, display, and change the stylesheets from here. If you make changes to the stylesheets, you will need to invalidate the global cache by using the transaction SMICM. Use the GoTo menu in the top menu and select HTTP Server Cache->Invalidate Global in System. This should help you out. Use this link for more on the stylesheets:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/3f/ca453afbf37b54e10000000a11402f/content.htm
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Template with CSS style sheet attached, not updating in pages

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webgirlfl wrote:
It shows when I look at it in a browser but its not updating in page view.
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This could be caused by errors in your code. DW's Design View is very unforgiving of even small errors that the browsers handle with ease.
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Generate report from database using .xsl style sheet

I am trying to view test result histories for specific uut serial numbers.
We are logging all test data to the default access database template that was provided with Teststand.
Is there a method of generating reports from the database that match the format of those generated at runtime?
I was surprised to find that the default access database did not contain any gui or pre-made reports matching the xsl style sheets chosen in the report options dialog.
My database skills are weak, I am able to browse the raw data and I see the relationships between some of the tables, but the prospect of recreating one of the xml report formats in access seems daunting. Am I missing something? what is the best way to print a uut report from test data stored in access?

Hello msears,
Thank you for posting on the NI Discussion Forums. Unfortunately there are no tools available in TestStand for directly converting an Access database to a formatted .xsl report. It is possible to have a step in a sequence that reads the information from the database, and create the .xsl report as if it had been generated at sequence run-time, by writing those values directly to Locals.ResultList. Admittedly, this would require some knowledge of Microsoft Access, and the ability to write a program that will extract information from the database, in order to include it as a step in the sequence.
Is there anything stopping you from creating a formatted .xsl report when the sequence is run (instead of trying to create it from previous data stored in an Access database)?
Chris_G
Sr Test Engineer
Medtronic, Inc.

Adding styles to template (was: Urgent Help Needed)

I have created pages from a template and trying to add css style in an editable region but for some reason it is not happening. In the css style panel i can only see the styles that were created on the template but cant see the new ones created for pages. Can someone pleas help me am using cs6.

Why don't you use an external style sheet instead of embedding styles into pages? It's so much more efficient.
See Link to External Style Sheet in DW
http://alt-web.com/DEMOS/DW-Link-Stylesheet.shtml
You cannot embed styles into Template driven Child pages unless you have created an editable region for the <head> tag in your main template.dwt file. For better answers, we would need to see your Template.dwt
Nancy O.

How to include custom style sheets in BI 7 WAD (Web Reports)

Hi,
I have WAD in 3.X, where I have used custom stylesheets. Now I need to use the same style sheets of 3.x development in BI 7 WAD.
How do i achieve this?
Regs, Arka

Hi,
Stylesheets cannot be included via the Web Application Designer for BI 7.0 web templates. You need to use the Theme Editor of the Portal instead. Please refer to the documentation:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/de/f4/bb7a3b688d3c1de10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
Best regards,
Janine

Variable Entry Style Sheet (CSS)

The Web template uses the style sheet from the MIME repository:
<link href=/sap/bw/mime/BEx/StyleSheets/BWReports.css type=text/css rel=stylesheet>
But, when the variable entry screen is displayed when executing the query it is not formatted and uses this style sheet:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="OWNER">
What is missing or needs to be configured so that the variable entry page uses the same style sheet as the Web template?
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i had ot type out in the file:css in order for it to be imported into DW i dont know why its doing that.
Did you define a local site folder in DW before you begain your project?
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/using/WS753df6af718a350a60097e0f131686fa2b4-7ff e.html
This critical first step allows DW to manage your site links and assets for you. Without a local site folder definition, many of DW's advanced features won't work.
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External Style Sheet ??

Read and Practice and it all comes together! :)
Well, most of it anyway...
I am doing CSS LAYOUT and I forgot to create an external
style sheet or something.
Can I just take all the CSS code in the header now and paste
it into a text file and save it as .css?
And then delete the code in the header?
And I lost that little line of code to put on each page to go
load the .css file.
Is there some difference between a css layout file and a css
style file?
They can be incorporated into one file right?
peace
rj

CSS is CSS, not JS. But you can externalize the js files,
too.
And it's not JAVA, it's javascript. The two are completely
different.
> So I can put the JAVA that sits in the header, move it
to notepad or
> whatever,
> name it with what extender and what first line in the
file.?
Yes. Make sure that you remove the
<script type="text/javascript">

</script> (the comment lines may or may not be there)
before you save the file. Then use DW's INSERT | HTML >
Script > browse to
and select the file.
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Sourcing Style Sheet xsl VO , Print RFQ (Sourcing )

Hello,
In Sourcing, when we click on Any PO. We have option to print RFQ. This internally calls
PON_SOURCING_XSLFO.xsl
Where can i find from which VO data is sent to this.

Hi PreethamChandra
As far as I know, the XSL is called from the template . Please check the template definition. You should find here how and which data is exactly passed to the XSL style sheet for formatting. The XSL style sheet accepts the data in the form of xml nodes .
Thanks
Sandeep

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