Templates not updating their pages

Hi all,
I created a Dreamweaver template with the main layout of my site with a few editable regions. I also made a few pages from that template, telling Dreamweaver to "update [the] page when [the] template changes". I got some new pages with the non-editable parts grayed out and the editable parts in full color. So far, so good. But when I change something on the template and save it, all of the pages based off of that template do not update with my change. I also cannot manually edit in the change because the region I edited in the template is grayed out, naturally, in the pages based off of the template.
How do I get the template's "child pages", so to speak, to update?
Thanks,
Dylan

Ok, I figured it out. I had a duplicate copy of the template for some reason. One copy had children; the other didn't. I was editing the template with no children. When I deleted the childless template and began editing the correct one, I was presented with a wonderful little dialog box asking if I wanted to update the child pages.
Thanks for all of your help,
Dylan

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When i change the naviagtion bar on my template page, DW updates all the local pages without problem.
Now when i change and upload (just) the template file it does not change the pages on the remote site, it did used too though !
From what I have read I should be re-uploading all the local pages to the remote site after every change to the template.
I haven't had to do it this way so far, so can anyone tell me what as changed.
It all used to be so quick and easy i.e change template nav. bar - upload the DWT file - all remote pages updated.
But now having to upload every page after a small change to the template file is a real bore.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Tim

Hi Nancy
Nancy I dont want and argument either, just trying to get things working, I was simply try to explain, clearly, how things have been working.
Hi John
I have no idea what "server side includes" is or how it works !!!. I will do some searching and see what I cand find out.
This is the website: www.warleys.co.uk
the navigation bar, and the items down the left are part of the template. The header and the two regions are the editable areas.
Here is the code you asked for.
<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Warleys</title>
<link href="../warleys/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="../warleys/menubar.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<td><img src="file:///Macintosh HD/,,JOBS 2009/warleys/cornerimages/right_top.gif" border="0" alt="" width="11" height="11" /></td>
</head>
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-19821392-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
</script>
<body>

<div id=@(id)">
<div align="center"><img src="../warleys/header images/warleyslogoheader.png" width="329" height="125" /><img src="../warleys/header images/horse-header_02.png" width="466" height="125" /></div>
</div>

<div id="efefefef">
<div class="nav-container-outer"><img src="../warleys/menuimages/nav-bg-l.jpg" alt="" class="float-left" /> <img src="../warleys/menuimages/nav-bg-r.jpg" alt="" class="float-right" />
    <ul id="nav-container" class="nav-container">
      <li><a class="item-primary" href="#">Home</a>
      <ul style="width:150px;">
          <li><a href="../warleys/contactus.html">Contact Us</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/openingtimes.html">Opening Times</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/howtofindus.html">How to find Warleys</a></li>
          <li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
        </ul>
      <li><a class="item-primary" href="#">Horse</a>
        <ul style="width:150px;">
          <li><a href="../warleys/allen.html">Allen & Page</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/spillers.html">Spillers</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/baileys.html">Baileys</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/dengie.html">Dengie</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/northern.html">N/Crop - Top Spec - Pegasus</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/dodson.html">Dodson & Horrell</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/other.html">Other Brands....</a></li>
          <li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/shavings.html">Shavings/Straw/hay</a></li>
          <li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Horse Treats & Licks</span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/horsetreats.html">Treats</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/licks.html">Licks</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/oils&vinegar.html">Oils & Vinegar</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><span class="divider divider-vert" ></span></li>
      <li><a class="item-primary" href="#">Dog</a>
        <ul style="width:150px;">
        <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Dry Dog Foods</span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/bakers.html">Bakers</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/supadog.html">Supadog</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/drjohns.html">Dr. Johns & Vitalin</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/chudleys.html">Chudleys & Skinners</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/purinabeta.html">Purina / Beta</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/sneyds.html">Sneyds & Gusto</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/wagg.html">Wagg</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/chappie.html">Chappie</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/arkwrights.html">Arkwrights & Breederpacks</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/redmills.html">Redmills & Omega</a></li>
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Dog treats,toys & chews</span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/dogtreats.html">Treats & Chews</a></li>
          <li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><span class="divider divider-vert" ></span></li>
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        <ul style="width:150px;">
        <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Leads, Chains and Collars</span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/dogleads.html">Collars</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/checkchains.html">Check Chains</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/leatherleads.html">Leather Leads</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/plainleads.html">Plain Leads</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/tartancollars.html">Tartan Collars</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/roundcollars.html">Sewn Round Collars</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/leatherstudcollars.html">Leather Stud Collars</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/plainsewncollars.html">Plain Sewn Leather Collars</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/plainylon.html">Nylon Leads - Plain</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/nyloncollars.html">Nylon Collars</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/adjustnyloncollars.html">Adjustable Nylon Collars</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><span class="divider divider-vert" ></span></li>
      <li><a class="item-primary" href="#">Cat</a>
        <ul style="width:150px;">
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Dry Cat Food</span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/iamscat.html">Iams / Go Cat / Whiskas </a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/jwcat.html">James Wellbeloved</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/catlitter.html">Catlitters</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/supacat.html">Supacat</a></li>
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          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >TIns & Pouches</span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/felixtins.html">Felix Tins & Pouches</a></li>
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      </li>
      <li><span class="divider divider-vert" ></span></li>
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        <ul style="width:150px;">
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Special Offers</span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/xmas.html">Offers</a></li>
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >White Wines</span></li>
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Red Wines</span></li>
          <li><a href="#"> </a></li>
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Spirits</span></li>
          <li><a href="#"> </a></li>
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Beers</span></li>
          <li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><span class="divider divider-vert" ></span></li>
      <li><a class="item-primary" href="#;">Garden Furniture</a>
        <ul style="width:150px;">
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Wooden Furniture</span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/hammocks.html">Swinging Hammocks</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/angleseats.html">Angle Seats</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/benches.html">2 and 3 Seater Seats</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/tables.html">Tables</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/seats.html">Seating</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/benchseats.html">Bench Seats</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/seatarbours.html">Seat Arbours</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/birdtables.html">Bird Tables</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/barrels.html">Barrels</a></li>
          <li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Metal Furniture</span></li>
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Garden Novelties</span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/gardennovleties.html">Tin People</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/potmen.html">Plant Pot People</a></li>
        </ul>
      <li><a class="item-primary" href="#;">Bird</a>
          <ul style="width:150px;">
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Bird Seeds</span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/bestpetsbird.html">Bestpets Seeds</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/bucktons.html">Bucktons Seeds</a></li>
          <li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
          <li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Bird Feeder and Tables</span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/birdtables.html">Bird Tables</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/birdboxes.html">Bird Nesting Boxes</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/birdfeeders.html">Bird Feeders</a></li>
         <li><a href="../warleys/fatballs.html">Fat Balls, Bird Treats</a></li>
        </ul>
      <li><a class="item-primary" href="#;">Small Pets</a>
          <ul style="width:150px;">
          <li><a href="../warleys/rabbit.html">Rabbit Ferret Food</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/gpig&hamsters.html">Guinea pIg & Hamster Food</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/chinchillas.html">Chinchilla & Rat Feeds</a></li>
         <li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/hutches.html">Hutches & Runs</a></li>
          </ul>
      <li><a class="item-primary" href="#;">Livestock...</a>
          <ul style="width:150px;">
          <li><a href="../warleys/chicken.html">Chicken Feeds</a></li>
          <li><a href="../warleys/sow.html">Sows / Sheep / Goats / Pigs</a></li>
         </ul>
      </li>
    <li class="clear"></li></ul>
</div>
</div>
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<div id="leftproduct">
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      <tr>
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          <span class="style5">...</span>8.30am - 5.45pm<br />
            <br />
          <span class="style5">...</span>Saturday<br />
          <span class="style5">...</span>8.30am - 5.45pm<br />
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      <tr>
        <td><p><a href="../warleys/exoticmeats.html"><img src="../warleys/images/exotic-meats.jpg" width="125" height="101" border="0" /></a><br />
          <a href="../warleys/reduced.html"><img src="../warleys/images/reducedbox_01.png" width="125" height="99" border="0" /></a><br />
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</div>

<div id="middleproduct">
    <table class="product" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
      <tr>
        <td><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:229px;">
            <tr>
              <td><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="pic table_pic_width">
                  <tr>
                    <td><img src="../warleys/cornerimages/left_top.gif" border="0" alt="" width="11" height="11" /></td>
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                    <td><img src="../warleys/cornerimages/right_top.gif" border="0" alt="" width="11" height="11" /></td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
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                  <tr>
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              <tr>
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                      <tr>
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                            <tr>
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Changed template not updating closed pages

I running mx2004. changes to my template use to update my
pages but now they have to be open for the change to take effect.
It goes through the process of scanning and sometimes picks up 6 or
7 pages but ingnores the rest (35 pages in all) Any ideas?
cheers

> have to be open for the change to take effect
That has never been a requirement. If you are finding it to
be so, then
something is really wrong.
Here are seven common mistakes that will result in changes
not propagating
from Template to child -
1. Rename the Templates folder
2. Move the Templates folder to some other folder level in
the site other
than root level
3. Move a template out of the Templates folder.
4. Make changes to an editable region of the template (which
will not
propagate)
5. Assume that template changes can be uploaded to the server
without also
uploading the changed local files
6. Corrupt the site cache so that the link between template
and child page
is broken
7, Improperly create your child pages by simply opening the
template,
adding page specific content, and resaving the template with
an *.html
extension rather that its *.dwt extension. (you can tell if
this is the case
by looking at the code on a child page - if you see anything
like <!--
TemplateBeginEditable... then this is what you have done)
The 6th problem can be repaired by using SITE | Advanced >
Recreate Site
Cache, and the six others can be fixed by just not doing
them. Have you
done any of those?
Or, read this -
http://www.adobe.com/go/dd83ba8b
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>I running mx2004. changes to my template use to update my
pages but now
>they
> have to be open for the change to take effect. It goes
through the process
> of
> scanning and sometimes picks up 6 or 7 pages but
ingnores the rest (35
> pages in
> all) Any ideas?
>
> cheers
>

Template not updating child pages

Hi, here's a link to the conundrum:
http://theexperience-exchange.co.uk/stop.html
This page (as are a few others) is based on a template document (stored in a Templates folder in the site root).
I added an editable region in the form of a new div with some text etc. When I do a 'save' I get the update files dialogue box, but it doesn't update the child pages.
I did look on the forum for an answer, althought there are similar examples of this issue, they don't seem to have had any dircet help.
As ever, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I'm signing off for the night, catch up with you all in the morning.
Thanks in anticipation
RP

Let's start with the obvious things.
1. Are you sure you're editing the correct template.dwt file?
Your Stop.html page is referencing this one. internal_pages.dwt
2. After saving your template and updating the child pages, did you upload the child pages to your server?
Nancy O.
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child pages when I save the template. I have the Links set relative
to Document.
If I remove the HTTP address from the box in the Site
Definition page, the template changes will be saved in the child
pages. If I click to Remote Server and then back to Local Info, the
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properly.
I did not have to do this before. I have reloaded DM CS3, so
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MarilynWalker wrote:
Murray - Can share your book title with us, please?
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There is a master template that controls top level navigation and then five child templates that give different left-side navigation based on which section of the site the user is in. You can see this in action at www.homerenergy.com.
You should see how easy this is to do with server-side includes and a single template file. It's the best of both worlds.
You can see this in action at www.homerenergy.com.
Yep. http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/check?ucn_uri=http://www.homerenergy.com/&ucn_task=conform ance - even if you would leave the nested templates in place, you would sure want to fix those.
The section-specific navigation is very easy to manage either with template conditionals or with server-side includes. You can see this site - http://www.ent-sys.com - where I have done the section navigation on interior pages with template conditionals.
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create
the content for our site based on the those templates.
The issue is that when I make a change to the template, I
would expect
the pages created in Contribute to be refreshed to use the
new
template, but that doesn't appear to be happening. The only
way I can
get the page to be updated is to edit the page in Contribute,
go to the
Format menu and choose 'Template Properties', then hit OK
again to
close this dialog. I then see the page refresh with the new
template
changes.
Am I doing something wrong? I would expect, as I mentioned,
to have all
pages automatically updated when the template is saved, and
published.
Is there a setting I need to turn on, or a procedure of
publishing the
template that I need to adhere to?
any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks for the reply Mark. While I think I've found most of
the things you mentioned since my first post, it is useful to get
confirmation of my finding, which appears to be consistent with
your post.
Here's what I've found, and later, why I'm not really liking
it:
If I edit the .dwt file in Dreamweaver and try to save it, I'm
prompted to only update those files I have locally that reference
the template.
I can only update those local files that are checked out,
though the saving process will check them out automatically
If I create a new page using Contribute, I must refresh the
templates first
My concerns are:
if I can only update those files I have locally, then do I need
to have the whole remote site stored locally too? My company site
is huge (as it's translated into 6 languages) and has multiple
contributors/editors. It sounds like I will have to download the
entire site before I edit a template, and put it back again
afterwards. Is that right?? it sounds rediculous, so I'm sure I've
got it wrong.
if I have the files locally, I must check them out before or
while saving the template. However, I then have to check them back
in manually. Again, with potentially 300 to 400 pages per template,
that's a lot of manual checking-in. If the saving process can
automatically check pages out, can it also automatically check them
in again??
Like you, Mark, I find it strange that Contribute requires a
manual refreshing of templates. I've searched all the options I can
find, but I don't see an auto-refresh templates setting, which
would be sooo useful. As it stands I will have to instruct each
editor/contributor to refresh before they create a new page, and
pray that they do.
any further advice from Contribute/Dreamweaver users would be
greatly appreciated. How do users with very large website handle
this? Are there any tricks or hints that you can pass on?

Template not updating child pages {subject edited by moderator}

I used templates for the sprymenu bar throughout the site. Recently, when i updated my nurse template (change the "2012 Upgrade" to "Upgrade" on the horizontal bar (see the red highlighted line in the code) and saved my change, I could not see the prompt asking me to confirm the updating of those linked child pages. I guessed i must have messed up the linking between the template (Nurses_Contentpage.dwt) and child pages (Nurses-inpatient.html and more html files). Where should I look at to fix this? Thanks!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Template: Nurses_Contentpage.dwt
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="file://///cmc-childtest/departments/LearnEpic/style.css" />

<title>Clinical Support</title>

<script src="file://///cmc-childtest/departments/LearnEpic/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-25722711-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
</script>


<link href="file://///cmc-childtest/departments/LearnEpic/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<div id="header">
    <h1>Clinical Support</h1>
    <h2> </h2>
</div>

<div id="menu">
    <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
    <li><a href="index.html" target="blank">Home</a>      </li>
    <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Providers</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="Providers_Inpatient.html">Inpatient/ICU</a></li>
        <li><a href="Providers_Ambulatory.html">Ambulatory</a></li>
        <li><a href="Providers_ED.html">Emergency Dept</a></li>
        <li><a href="Providers_PeriopServices.html">Periop Services</a></li>
        <li><a href="Providers_MyChildrens.html">MyChildren's</a></li>
                        <li><a href="Providers_MedSstudents.html">Medical Students</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Nurses</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Nurses_Inpatient.html">Inpatient/ICU</a></li>
        <li><a href="Nurses_Ambulatory.html">Ambulatory</a></li>
        <li><a href="Nurses_ED.html">Emergency Dept</a></li>
        <li><a href="Nurses_PeriopServ.html">Periop Services</a></li>
        <li><a href="Nurses_MyChildrens.html">MyChildren's</a></li>
      </ul>
      </li>
        <li><a href="pharmacists.html">Pharmacists</a></li>
        <li><a href="Therapists.html">Therapists</a></li>
        <li><a href="Ancillaries.html">Ancillaries</a>        </li>
        <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Clinical Support</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_ASR_PAR_SPAR.html">ASR/PAR/SPAR</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_Admitting_ED_FC.html">Admitting/ED/FC</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_MA_PCA_PCT.html">MA/PCA/PCT</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_Radio_Lab_Techs.html">Radiology/Lab Tech</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_HUcs.html">HUC</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_HIM.html">HIM</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_FinancialServ.html">Pt Financial Services</a></li>
</ul>
        </li>
               <li><a href="MultiAreaModules.html">Multi-Area Modules</a></li>
        <li><a href="trainers.html">Trainers</a></li>
       <li><a href="Upgrade.html">Upgrade</a></li>
</ul>
    </li>
</div>
<div id="contentwrap">
<div id="content02">
    <h2>Clinical Support > Area name</h2>
   <table id="hor-minimalist-b" summary="Epic Access Requirements">
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th width="169" >Category</th>
          <th width="554">Topic
          </th>
        </tr>

</div>
<div style="clear: both;"> </div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<p>© Copyright 2014 <a href="http://cmc-childnet/ChildNet/Departments/LearningInstitute/index.asp" target="_blank">the Learning Institute, </a><a href="http://cmc-childnet/ChildNet/Departments/home/index.asp" target="_blank">Children's Medical Center Dallas, Texas </a></p>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
</body>
</html>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
One of the Child Nurse Pages: Nursee_inpatient.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

<title>NurseTraining - Inpatient/ICU</title>

<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-25722711-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
</script>


<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<div id="header">
    <h1><a href="#">Nurse Trainings</a></h1>
    <h2> </h2>
</div>

<div id="menu">
    <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
    <li><a href="index.html" target="blank">Home</a>      </li>
    <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Providers</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="Providers_Inpatient.html">Inpatient/ICU</a></li>
        <li><a href="Providers_Ambulatory.html">Ambulatory</a></li>
        <li><a href="Providers_ED.html">Emergency Dept</a></li>
        <li><a href="Providers_PeriopServices.html">Periop Services</a></li>
        <li><a href="Providers_MyChildrens.html">MyChildren's</a></li>
                        <li><a href="Providers_MedSstudents.html">Medical Students</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Nurses</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Nurses_Inpatient.html">Inpatient/ICU</a></li>
        <li><a href="Nurses_Ambulatory.html">Ambulatory</a></li>
        <li><a href="Nurses_ED.html">Emergency Dept</a></li>
        <li><a href="Nurses_PeriopServ.html">Periop Services</a></li>
        <li><a href="Nurses_MyChildrens.html">MyChildren's</a></li>
      </ul>
      </li>
        <li><a href="pharmacists.html">Pharmacists</a></li>
        <li><a href="Therapists.html">Therapists</a></li>
        <li><a href="Ancillaries.html">Ancillaries</a>        </li>
        <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Clinical Support</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_ASR_PAR_SPAR.html">ASR/PAR/SPAR</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_Admitting_ED_FC.html">Admitting/ED/FC</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_MA_PCA_PCT.html">MA/PCA/PCT</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_Radio_Lab_Techs.html">Radiology/Lab Tech</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_HUcs.html">HUC</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_HIM.html">HIM</a></li>
<li><a href="ClinicalSupport_FinancialServ.html">Pt Financial Services</a></li>
</ul>
        </li>
               <li><a href="MultiAreaModules.html">Multi-Area Modules</a></li>
        <li><a href="trainers.html">Trainers</a></li>
        <li><a href="2012Upgrade.html">2012 Upgrade</a></li>
</ul>
    </li>
</div>
<div id="contentwrap">
<div id="content02">
    <h2>Nurses > Inpatient/ICU</h2><br />
    <table id="hor-minimalist-b" summary="Epic Access Requirements">
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th width="168" >Category</th>
          <th width="555">Topic
            </th>
        </tr>
        <tr >

    <div style="clear: both;"> </div>
</div>

<div id="sidebar02">
<h3>   Nurses by Area</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="Nurses_Inpatient.html">Inpatient/ICU</a></li>
<li><a href="Nurses_Ambulatory.html">Ambulatory</a></li>
<li><a href="Nurses_ED.html">Emergency Dept</a></li>
<li><a href="Nurses_PeriopServ.html">Periop Services</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cmc-childnet/ChildNet/Departments/LearnEpic/Nurses_MyChildrens.html">MyChildren's</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;"> </div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<p>© Copyright 2014 <a href="http://cmc-childnet/ChildNet/Departments/LearningInstitute/index.asp" target="_blank">the Learning Institute, </a><a href="http://cmc-childnet/ChildNet/Departments/home/index.asp" target="_blank">Children's Medical Center Dallas, Texas </a></p>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
</body>
</html>

I do have the exact hierarchy of this site on both the test and production sites.
If that were the case then DW would not change the links to file:/// links. Are you sure they didn't start that way? Typically they get that way when you insert an element into the page that is *outside* the root folder for the site.
For the nurse template, there are 6 child pages. I am using a total of 5-6 templates and each template has 3-6 child pages.
I don't see any reason why you would need so many templates for this simple layout. I haven't encountered a site I couldn't do with a single template yet. However, that's not answering your question.
Is this lack of propagation of changes true for ALL your templates in this site or only one? Also, do you see it happen on other sites?

Template not updating linked pages

I've never had this happen before. Any changes i make -
mainly to nav doesn't take in any of the linked pages. Even if I
make a new page directly from the template, then make a change to
the template it doesn't even update the newly created page.
Using DW MX2004
Anyone ever hear of this? A fix?

Here are seven common mistakes that will result in changes
not propagating
from Template to child -
1. Rename the Templates folder
2. Move the Templates folder to some other folder level in
the site other
than root level
3. Move a template out of the Templates folder.
4. Make changes to an editable region of the template (which
will not
propagate)
5. Assume that template changes can be uploaded to the server
without also
uploading the changed local files
6. Corrupt the site cache so that the link between template
and child page
is broken
7, Improperly create your child pages by simply opening the
template,
adding page specific content, and resaving the template with
an *.html
extension rather that its *.dwt extension. (you can tell if
this is the case
by looking at the code on a child page - if you see anything
like <!--
TemplateBeginEditable... then this is what you have done). If
you *have
done this*, then recreate the child pages (in DWCS3) using
FILE | New > Page
from Template, select the template and click CREATE.
The 6th problem can be repaired by using SITE | Advanced >
Recreate Site
Cache, and the six others can be fixed by just not doing
them. Have you
done any of those?
Or, read this -
http://www.adobe.com/go/dd83ba8b
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"phrarod" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gb75q5$mpv$[email protected]..
> I've never had this happen before. Any changes i make -
mainly to nav
> doesn't
> take in any of the linked pages. Even if I make a new
page directly from
> the
> template, then make a change to the template it doesn't
even update the
> newly
> created page.
>
> Using DW MX2004
>
> Anyone ever hear of this? A fix?
>

Dreamweaver CS6 Templates not updating pages since i copied the website to a new computer

Dreamweaver CS6 Templates not updating pages since i copied the website to a new computer
First i install CS6 on the new computer
copy the projects
import the websites
Now, when i change any template the pages do not update any more. New pages working correct. Also manuell updating works.
Any Idea?
Where are the info about the join template and the pages. Seems on the old computer - but where?
Thx

hm?
now I made a new page from the template on the new machine - and find one difference:
New Page:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="de">
<head>....
Old Page:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="de">
<head>...
The slash / after template=" is not there on the new machine. If i remove the slash on the copied pages and restart dreamweaver then it works. A lot of work, but i can solve my problem this way.
Maybe there is some checkbox for path handling...?

Template with CSS style sheet attached, not updating in pages

It shows when I look at it in a browser but its not updating in page view. Also not updating image links of style sheets.
I am a developer for a long time. I know dreamweaver and how to do this. Its a bug I think. But need need to know what I can do to get this fixed.

webgirlfl wrote:
It shows when I look at it in a browser but its not updating in page view.
Do you mean it's not showing in Design View?
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.
Check your template page against these validators and clean out any errors...
HTML: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Is the css that the template is attached to embedded within the template's <head>, an external .css file or inline css?
Is any of the non-updating css in editable regions?

Ajax is caching the output and not updating the page.If you force a second postback after you should have seen a popup (but didn'), you then see popup displayed

Ajax is caching the output and not updating the page.If you force a second postback after you should have seen a popup (but didn'), you then see popup displayed

Hey, thanks for replying. It is the user who needs to manually submit the page.
Basically our page has a hidden div with various text fields and combo boxes. When the user click on specific links on the page, this div is populated and made visible to the user in server side code.
What happens for all other browsers other than firefox 23 onwards (worked fine in 22) is that after the user clicks on the link, our server side code is executed via a HTTP post. The server then renders the hidden div and sends the additional HTML down to the browser via ASP.NET AJAX.
With Firefox 23, the additional HTML is not rendered on the first postback. Subsequent clicks of the same link execute the same server side code but the additional HTML is rendered on the browser without issue.
We've done a lot of debugging now and the issue is localised to a specific third party supplier's (Infragistics) control. I think Firefox 23 must have changed the way that the viewport or screen bounds are calculated or reflected back to this control as the issue seems to stop when we remove the control's MaintainPositionOnScroll attribute. It might be that the Firefox 23 DOM is not able to provide the screen dimensions accurately when the page is first rendered. I say this as the second postback renders the additional HTML fine.
The control in question is quite an old version so I don't think it's your issue to be honest.
Just so that this might be helpful to other developers using the Infragistics Window Dialog Control, setting MaintainPositionOnScroll to false solved this issue for us.

My templates can not find their page in Dreamweaver

How do I reroute a template so that it can find the pages that were derived from it..
I have a site that has gotten screwed up somehow and I have to redefine the paths from the templates from to their child pages... the message that
I get when I make a change to a template and it can't find its child page is the following:
Error accessing file
"macintosh_hd:Users:elizabethwallace:Desktop:mtti:mtti:Templates:news.dwt":finel not found (error code -43)
would someone be kind enough to help... thank you so much.
Elizabeth

Before you do any of this, make a backup copy of your site files (not the definition, the folder and files themselves) and preserve them in case anything goes wrong in the process.
First, make sure your site is properly defined and all contained within a site folder.
Then make sure the Templates are all in the Templates folder.
Make sure each page is where you want it to be in your site file structure.
Go into each Template and correct any paths that need tweaking. If your site has been seriously discombobulated (technical term!), you will want to check and fix every link by the Browse for File method or the Point to Link. DO NOT try to type the paths into the Template yourself manually.
Open each page in succession, and re-apply the Template that it should be linked to. You do that in Modify > Templates > Apply Template to Page.
You may have to "assign" copy to editable regions at this step.
When you finish with each Template, test it by making a minor change to the Template and propagating the change to the child pages. Check the child pages to make sure they are updating when the Template is changed.
If everything looks good, it is good. Shake your own hand and pat yourself on the back for retrieving a difficult situation.
If this does not work, post back and we will think about it some more. But it sounds like a reasonable course of action to me.
Beth

Template do not update child pages

I really do not understand why this happens to me all the time.
I had this problem when I was using windows/pc with previous version of dreamweaver many years ago.
I had the same one, now that I am using mac and dreamweaver cs4.
In the past, I created a template, with one editable region. Based on this template, I created many pages.
For some time, everything worked ok, every change in editable region of template forced all child pages to reflect to this change too.
Now, this do not happen anymore(once again as I said).
I cannot understand why this happens. 118 files examined, 0 files updated. Why? What am I doing wrong? Is this a bug in dreamweaver that lasts for years?
I 've done nothing to detach the pages from template, ever. Why it stoped the updating of child file?
Can anybody please help me?

giugiugiugiugiugiugi wrote:
I really do not understand why this happens to me all the time.
I had this problem when I was using windows/pc with previous version of dreamweaver many years ago.
I had the same one, now that I am using mac and dreamweaver cs4.
In the past, I created a template, with one editable region. Based on this template, I created many pages.
For some time, everything worked ok, every change in editable region of template forced all child pages to reflect to this change too.
Now, this do not happen anymore(once again as I said).
I cannot understand why this happens. 118 files examined, 0 files updated. Why? What am I doing wrong? Is this a bug in dreamweaver that lasts for years?
I 've done nothing to detach the pages from template, ever. Why it stoped the updating of child file?
Can anybody please help me?
You say "every change in editable region of template forced all child pages". This is NEVER how DW has operated. It's only changes to NON-EDITABLE regions that are propagated to child pages. I suspect that this misunderstand is what is causing you trouble, but if not, read this -
Here are seven common mistakes that will result in changes not propagating from Template to child -
1. Rename the Templates folder
2. Move the Templates folder to some other folder level in the site other than root level
3. Move a template out of the Templates folder.
4. Make changes to an editable region of the Template (which will not propagate)
5. Assume that Template changes will be effected by just uploading the changed Template file to the server without also uploading the changed local files
6. Corrupt the site cache so that the link between Template and child page is broken
7. Improperly create your child pages by simply opening the Template, adding page specific content, and resaving the Template with an *.html extension rather that its *.dwt extension. (you can tell if this is the case by looking at the code on a child page - if you see anything like <!-- TemplateBeginEditable... then this is what you have done). If you *have done this*, then recreate the child pages (in DWCS3) using FILE | New > Page from Template, select the Template and click CREATE.
The 6th problem can be repaired by using SITE | Advanced > Recreate Site Cache, and the six others can be fixed by just not doing them. Have you done any of those?
Or, read this -
http://www.adobe.com/go/dd83ba8b

Template not updating pages

My customer wanted me to add some google analytics to some of
their pages. So I tried to make an editable area just above the
</body> tag so that I could put the specific code on just
some of their pages. But when I did this, it put  after the </body> tag. I don't know why it
did this. But now all of the pages have this stuck on the pages. I
updated the template to remove this bottom editable region but when
I update the pages, all of the code is still showing and I can't
get rid of it. I'm sure it's because this  is after the body tag. How can I fix this? You can view the
source of
http://www.harboryc.com and look
at the very bottom to see what I'm talking about.

That page's template markup is perfectly normal. The 
*SHOULD* be where it is on all template child pages.
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"kdumas123" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:g5jqu2$dq0$[email protected]..
> My customer wanted me to add some google analytics to
some of their pages.
> So
> I tried to make an editable area just above the
</body> tag so that I
> could put
> the specific code on just some of their pages. But when
I did this, it
> put
>  after the </body> tag.
I don't know why it did this.
> But
> now all of the pages have this stuck on the pages. I
updated the template
> to
> remove this bottom editable region but when I update the
pages, all of the
> code
> is still showing and I can't get rid of it. I'm sure
it's because this
>  is after the body tag. How can I fix
this? You can view
> the
> source of
http://www.harboryc.com and look
at the very bottom to see what
> I'm
> talking about.
>

Template not updating pages on save

I created a template, then created pages based on that template. I make a change to the template, save, it says it will update my 10 pages, then the log shows that 0 pages were updated. I check the pages, they didn't update. What's the problem? Why are my pages not updated?
Thanks,
KoffeeKat

Are you working with valid code?
Code Validation Tools
CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
Do you have an editable region in your Template's <head> tags?
Can you post your Template code into a reply?
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