Template Update

I'm doing our company badges in Illustrator. I've created a template with 12 badges on one page. The only thing that will need to change for each badge is the name and photo. Then every year, alls I need to update is the expiration date. If I open this template, save as a new file, make changes to the template, will the file that utilizes that template update (like a template in Dreamweaver does)?
Thanks
EDIT: Just tested, doesn't work, I wasn't thinking clearly...duh opens a new document when opening that template. So I guess my question then is what is the best way to do this.

Hello Tanya,
What you can do to update all the dates on the ID cards you can do the following:
Main Menu: "Edit" + "Find and Replace"
In the "Find" field enter the old date
And in the "Replace With" field enter the new date.
Finally select "Find" + "Replace All" + "Done"
In my versions of CS3, this fields of "Find and Replace" window are saved until your quit the program. In other words, you can open all the ID documents and the old date and the new date will be already set for you to just select "Find" + "Replace All" + "Done"
I hope this helps.

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When I make a change to my template, I get the popup window
that allows me to update the entire site or just files connected to
a template. But, that just updates files on my local computer.
I'm accessing the template file on the remote server and have
that open on my desktop. But, the template update just applies to
my local files.
So, how do I get the template to update to all related files
on my remote server?

That would be correct. Templates have no function on the
server. Never
have.
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"Ken Binney" <[email protected]> wrote
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>I don't use templates, but I am under the impression that
your template is
>NOT uploaded to server, but remains on your local
machine.
>
> When you update your child pages from the revised
template, you then
> upload only the updated child pages to the server.
>
>
>
> "feezle" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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>> When I make a change to my template, I get the popup
window that allows
>> me to
>> update the entire site or just files connected to a
template. But, that
>> just
>> updates files on my local computer.
>>
>> I'm accessing the template file on the remote server
and have that open
>> on my
>> desktop. But, the template update just applies to my
local files.
>>
>> So, how do I get the template to update to all
related files on my remote
>> server?
>>
>
>

Dreamweaver template update ftp files without synchronizing

Today I change Template - Update all files based on the template - synchronize entire site.
What I Like to do: change Template - Update all files based on the template
and then in the same window button with ftp upload changed files!
Why do I want this:
The synchronization can take time on big sites, I have cms and billing system on my site with many files.
The synchronization can take time on slow connection.
When the time betwen two synchronization is to small Dreamweaver select all files (or many) for synchronization. I do not know if this is only my problem (maybe there is different time on my computer and the server?).
Do we have solution for this today?
Or can this be something to suggest for next version?
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As a possible alternative, you could use "Server Side Includes" - which is a single file which contains a portion of your page (the top navigation, footer area, etc.), and any page that uses this element will automatically update when you upload just that one element. Here is a link which explains it better: http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/server_side_includes.asp and there are several others on the web that offer more detailed explainations - one caveat is that the web server you use would need to be set up to accept SSI... most do, but something you'd need to look into beforehand...
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CS4 Problem with Template Updates

There's another thread on this subject, but I couldn't see any final resolution.
I'm having a problem with Template Update.
I have all pages in site linked to a single template. I built the template 1st and then created each page from the template using normal method.
When I now make a change to the template, I save the template and it automatically saves and opens a box to select pages to update. I do NOT have to use the Updates feature on the top menus, but I have done that too just to try different things. When I select all the files, it updates them all, most of them correctly. BUT, one or several of them will have a NEW Main Content (and sometimes header) superimposed on top of the existing Main Content (or header). It shifts the page downward and to the right. By the way, down below the screwed section, the content is all still there and the original template is still intact under the screwed up area.
To fix it, I create a new page from the template and start over inserting the Main Content, which is nothing special, just formatted text. Next time I update, that same page will always get screwed up again, but sometimes 1 or more different pages will also get screwed up in the same way, always with a new nested Main Content area (on top of the original or sometimes pushed down half a page).
I thought it might be because of a nested Main Content in that section of the template, but I see none, or any other abnormal html. It does not do this to all 20-30 pages, just one every time and one or more random ones. I see nothing in html different from one page to the next.
Don't know how to attach documents to this, but I have the template and two of the screwed up pages to send.
Charlie
[email protected]

The site is http://www.michaelchekhov.net
Public directory is /public_html, but that's the root, so the links below should work.
These pages are out of their normal directory, so the supporting links won't work, but you can see the code. Look at the home page and you can see what all the pages are supposed to look like.
The template which created the problem with the pages below is at /support/TEMPLATE index.dwt
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A 2nd page that failed on that UPDATE is there also - /support/BAD bibliography.html
The currently working copy of the page that fails everytime is /articles/poatool.html.
Thanks.
Charlie

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I'm working on a site and didn't built the templates, but
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For the other 20% it updates part, but then reverts other
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the ?!?!?!?
I've tried applying a new template and re-selecting the good
one and that updates the code correctly. However, next template
change, it updates some of the code reverts backwards other parts
of the code. I don't get it.
Please help before I go cRaZy.
Any idea what might be going on or how to stop it? I'm using
Dreamweaver MX 2004.

This is usually an indication of hinky code somewhere. Can we
start by
taking a look at the template, please? Can you upload it and
post a link?
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"Thomas-TopRank" <[email protected]> wrote
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> I'm working on a site and didn't built the templates,
but they look right.
> For
> about 80% of the files, when you update the template the
files update
> correctly.
>
> For the other 20% it updates part, but then reverts
other parts backwards.
> For example, I cleaned up the <body> tag in the
template and it didn't
> update
> on these 20%. I also updated some links in the template
and they got
> updated
> just fine in all sites.
>
> Also in these 20%, when the template updates the files,
it puts back the
> JavaScript code in an editable area. It's not in the
template and was
> removed
> from the code, yet comes back each time the template is
updated. The
> other
> 80%, it doesn't come back. What the ?!?!?!?
>
> I've tried applying a new template and re-selecting the
good one and that
> updates the code correctly. However, next template
change, it updates
> some of
> the code reverts backwards other parts of the code. I
don't get it.
>
> Please help before I go cRaZy.
>
> Any idea what might be going on or how to stop it? I'm
using Dreamweaver
> MX
> 2004.
>

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> any thoughts?
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"sparkdesigngroup" <[email protected]> wrote
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> hello all,
> I've got some weird behavior happening with a template
i've created. I am
> using some of the basic mm_ scripts (for image swapping
etc) which i have
> moved
> to an external .js file which is linked to the template
i'm using. There
> are no
> scripts that exist in the head of the document except
the linked files.
>
> The weird behavior happens when i make a change to the
template and then
> update files site wide ("update all pages" when
saving)....Dreamweaver
> inserts
> all the mm_ scripts that i placed in the external .js
file into the heads
> of
> the updated files that use that template.
>
> Now to make things even more confusing, if i update
individual pages by
> using
> modify>update current page, the page updates
correctly.
>
> I also have 2 different templates that also access that
external .js file,
> but
> neither of them have the same weird updating problem....
>
> any thoughts?
>
> -AK
>

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"DeTuinman1970" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Here is my template html. That code is in the template
and the pages are
> all
> fine. However, when I change anything on the template
page, and update the
> pages using this template, what I listed in my first
post shows as actual
> text
> on each of my pages (the template itself after updating
looks totally fine
> with
> no code as text, only the updated pages all have the
code as text.
> It won't let me post the entire code of the template, so
I'm just putting
> the
> beginning part on.
> I never had this problem with Dreamweaver 4 so I don't
know why this is
> happening!
>
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> <head>
> 
> <title>web template</title>
> 
> <LINK REL=STYLESHEET TYPE="text/css"
HREF="../style.css">
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
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>
>

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Hello Horsemad Gilly,
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