Templates not updating

Would there be any reason for this if I created the site in CS3 and copied them over to CS4? If I make changes, and save it through the "save as" menu option, it asks to update links, but it does not change anything. I can see that the various pages are based off the template I am changing. The site functions properly so I am at a loss right now.

Are you making changes to editable or non-editable regions of the Template? If the former, then you are not understanding how Templates work in DW. Only changes made to the non-editable regions propagate to child pages. If the latter, then we'll need to see the Template's code, and know what changes you were making....

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Hello I am very very new to dreamweaver and have been handed a website that I have to maintain and make changes to.
The website uses a template called index with further nested templates as shown
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Here is the remote file code which is that same as the local code - I have out the code that is not updating in bold and underlined it:
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
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          <li><a href="../webpages/news/news.php">news</a></li>
<li><a href="../webpages/programme/programme_wp1.html">programme</a></li>
<li><a href="../webpages/consortium/consortium_0.html">consortium</a></li>
<li><a href="../webpages/downloads/downloads.php">downloads</a></li>
<li><a href="../webpages/links/links.html">links</a></li>
          <li><a href="../webpages/contact/contact.html">Contact</a></li>
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<div class="mainSection">
    <h1>here is the main section </h1>
</div>

<div class="footer">
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    <div id="footer_middle">Page maintained by <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Molly Buckingham</a> · Last update: 03-Apr-2013
    </div>
    <div id="footer_bottom">
      <div>© 2012 <a href="../webpages/consortium/consortium_1.html">G.EN.ESI Consortium</a> · <a href="../webpages/footer/Disclaimer.html">Disclaimer</a> · <a href="../webpages/footer/privacy_notice.html">Privacy Statement</a></div>
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And here is the source code from the website - again the code is underlined and in bold


</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
    <div id="header_top">
      <div id="text_only"><a href="http://www.genesi-fp7.eu/betsie/parser.pl">Text-only</a> </div>
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      <div id="search"><a href="../search/search.html">search</a></div>
      <div id="header_middle">
        <div id="logo_left"><img src="../../images/500px-Flag_of_Europe.svg.png" alt="European Union" width="167" height="111" border="0" /></div>
        <div id="logo_middle"><img src="../../images/Genesi_Logo.png" alt="GENESI" width="620" height="111" border="0" /></div>
        <div id="logo_right"><a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html"><img src="../../images/fp7.png" alt="Seventh Framework Programme" width="154" height="111" border="0" /></a></div>
      </div>
      <div id="header_bottom">
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          <li><a href="../news/news.php">news</a></li>
<li><a href="../programme/programme_wp1.html">programme</a></li>
<li><a href="consortium_1.html">consortium</a></li>
<li><a href="../downloads/downloads.php">downloads</a></li>
<li><a href="../links/links.html">links</a></li>
          <li><a href="../contact/contact.html">Contact</a></li>
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      <li><a href="consortium_2.html">Granta Design Ltd</a></li>
      <li><a href="consortium_3.html">Faber s.p.a.</a></li>
      <li><a href="consortium_4.html">Sibuet Environnement</a></li>
      <li><a href="consortium_5.html">Bonfiglioli Vectron Gmbh</a></li>
      <li><a href="consortium_6.html">ENEA</a></li>
      <li><a href="consortium_7.html">University of Bath</a></li>
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      <h1><strong>The Università Politecnica delle Marche</strong></h1>
      <p><img src="../../images/delle_Marche.jpg" alt="The Università Politecnica delle Marche" width="142" height="142" />The Università Politecnica delle Marche(UNIVPM) is situated in the Marche Region (area of Ancona) that is the one of most important European industrial districts related to the household appliances, in fact many European leader companies such as Indesit , Elica, Ariston TG, Faber, and many others, have their headquarters there. Thanks to this geographical position UNIVPM has many collaborations with these companies and it has matured a vast skill on research topics related to the household appliances field. UNIVPM has 5 faculties, 550 professors (the largest is the Engineering Faculty with 180 professors), 12 technical Departments and 17,000 students; it participates to 23 academic spin-off. The central administration of UNIVPM has a management department which gives support to technical departments in European project set up, negotiation and administration of the grant agreement, draft and negotiation of the consortium agreement as well as project financial reporting. In this project will be involved the Department of Mechanics that has a remarkable experience on European Projects since it has been coordinator of 6th and 7th FP projects and it is involved in 9 active European projects. In particular, UNIVPM coordinates the G.EN.ESI project from an administrative and technical point of view.</p>
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    <div id="footer_middle">Page maintained by <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Chunlei Li</a> · Last update: 25-Apr-2012
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Thank you in advance for your help

Jon Fritz that did actually work for some of the pages but not others. I upadted each invidivual page, except the main page as I have not finished the content and now some of the pages are acting strangely.
Here is the website http://www.genesi-fp7.eu/index.html
As you can see every page except the 'Contacts' and 'Links' page is now reading the correct code when you click on the 'Consortium' tab. The strange thing however is that the footer has updated on the 'Links' page suggesting that this part of the template has updated. Both these pages are based on the Index-misc nested template. The code is copied here:
<!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>
<link href="../styles/genesi.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../SpryAssets/MainMenu.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="../SpryAssets/SubMenu.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="3L2ZN1aLnNO1X__brL1UzpHsgkiL7NdjWT8oJnAxF64" />

<title>G.EN.ESI</title>






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Murray do you suggest that I try and get rid of the nested templates or am I biting off more than I can chew after two days of self training?
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makes any difference.
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the info at "Template child pages are not updated when parent
template is changed," from
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> Out of curiosity how
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submitted to
them. The former method is MUCH faster than the latter. If I
put a link to
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weeks at most.
> She's had several clients remark that the old title info
is displayed
> (from
> her previous, now-defunct site) when they save her
current site as a
> favorite.
> So she'd like the new info to be reflected,
understandably.
I'd have to see the site.
> I've also tried to update by making a wee change in the
template file and
> resaving, which also draws a blank. I've wracked my tiny
brain...
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?
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"Cricketgrrl" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> SE's ignore meta tag information, so there would be no
benefit to doing
> this.
>
> > The client's also paying a company for SE
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> > which requested the meta tags be updated/changed.
>
> Your client is being ripped off. This is a useless
change.
>
> Nevertheless, if the meta tags are in a non-editable
region of the
> template,
> changes to them in the template page will propagate to
all LOCAL files
> that
> are child pages of that template, which must then be
uploaded.
>
> --
> Murray --- ICQ 71997575
> Adobe Community Expert
> (If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
>
>
> I'll pass the SE comments on to my client. Out of
curiosity how
do
> most
> SE's locate sites/info? I realize this is complete study
of its own.
> Nonetheless, I'd like to be able to pass on some useful
info to my client.
>
> She's had several clients remark that the old title info
is displayed
> (from
> her previous, now-defunct site) when they save her
current site as a
> favorite.
> So she'd like the new info to be reflected,
understandably.
>
> I've tried numerous times to update the local pages via
Modify > Templates
> >
> Update pages... and after supposedly doing its thing,
the update log
> shows
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>
> Updating D:\CoachBenita\_web\
> Done.
> files examined: 11
> files updated: 0
> files which could not be updated: 0
> total time: (0:00:01)
>
> I've also tried to update by making a wee change in the
template file and
> resaving, which also draws a blank. I've wracked my tiny
brain...
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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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Dreamweaver Template not updating pages error code 2?

Hi All
I wonder if someone can help me - I have a site that i made with Dreamweaver. I then got a new computer (windows 7) and updated my dreamweaver from cs4 to cs5. I have just tried to update my pages and it doesnt seems to be working.
Not sure what information you need - but I have a root folder and within the root site there is a folder with Templates and the templates have the extension .dwt
I have read some posts that say recreate the cache which i have tried - this hasnt worked
I then read another post that says you can update the pages by Modify > templates > Update Pages..
When i tried this I get the update dialog box, but when i try to update the pages i get the following error message:
"error accessing file - (name of the dwt file), file not found, error code 2"
Can i ask the what is the error code 2 - i mean is there any information about the error code which will help me to resolve my templates not being found? as i am bit stuck...
Would appreciate any help on this and thank you in advance
Regards
Lorna

I would like further help with the issue Guy McMickle identified.
When I update links to my two template files I receive the above Error Code 2 message four times. There are 22 page files based on these templates.
The <!-- InstanceBegin template... code does not exist in either of the template files. I does, however, show up in every one of the 21 files that were created from one of the two templates. In these files it shows up in uneditable header code.
Why does the error code only show up four times? If the instanceBegin code is only generated when a file is created based on a template, how can it be avoided or corrected?

Pages and Child Templates Not Updating

I'm having a problem in Dreamweaver CS5 where pages and child templates are not receiving updates made to the parent template. When I update the template, sometimes some files using that template will update, and some will not. Repeatedly updating the template sometimes forces the changes, but other times it does not.
For instance I was working on a 50 page site earlier, made up of 1 master template with 5 child templates. I made changes to the master template, and it went through the update process, saying all the child templates and files have been updated. However when I open some, not all, files, they are not updated.
I manually went through the entire site and hit 'update page from template', and that seemed to work. I opened a different site with only 1 template, did an update, and it only updated some of the files. I updated the template again, saved, and it then proceeded to update a few more randomly selected files.
This was happening sometimes in CS4, but in CS5 it has become a bigger problem. Please let me know how this can be resolved.
Edit: This is on a freshly reinstalled CS5 with all updates.

MarilynWalker wrote:
Murray - Can share your book title with us, please?
Sure. It's Dreamweaver MX Templates by Brad Halstead and myself - ISBN 0-7357-1319-7. I spend quite a bit of time explaining nested templates. Sadly, nowhere do I say you should avoid them. But you should.
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.
However, your site is small, and simple. Nested templates can work OK in such circumstances. But I have never seen a use of nested templates that couldn't be done more simply with some other approach.

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

Dynamic Web template not updating

I am using EW4 and have created a dynamic web template. Some of the pages of the site have all of the updates but some don't. I am not changing any of the layout, text or graphics it is just the links. When I preview the pages some of them show all
the links but some show none.
I am on a different computer than the one I created the new pages on.
I have tried to "save all pages"
I have saved the template pages.
I have searched this forum and hit the"recalculate links" button and also "maintain site using hidden meta file" button but it is still not updating.
Any ideas?
Thanks

My point was that in 99.999999% of the cases (approximately), the problem is user error (or a user-caused problem, such as non-standard workflow), but the first solution people go to is to blame the software and uninstall and re-install it.
And even if, in the very, very, very rare case that an installation is corrupt (when was the last time you had commercial software become corrupted?), simply uninstalling and reinstalling usually doesn't fix the problem, because corrupted files are
left on the hard drive during the uninstall process. They remain there and cause the same problems after reinstall that they caused initially. Without doing a thorough clearing of all old files and Registry entries, the new install is plagued by the same problems.
As Scott has noted, we have had exactly one documented report in this forum in all these years of a reinstall of EW fixing a problem.
Again--the overwhelming majority of problems are caused by people who do not know how to use the program properly and who should be looking inward for the solution rather than outward.
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks "Why the long face?" "Because I was born into servitude and when I die my hooves will be used to make glue." It was at this point that the bartender realized he would not be getting a tip.

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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Template not updating online files

I use one template for 62 files which I have already
uploaded. I made a change to the template which updated my files
offline but do I have to re-upload all these files again? When I
just upload the template, none of the other files online
automatically updated. This is my first use of templates and I
assumed that if you modify the template then the change will carry
over to each associated file that already resides on the server
which would be great. What should I do to keep from having to
re-upload each file after I make a change to the template?
Thanks, Steve

>>do I have to re-upload all these files again?
Yup. That's hw Templates work.
>>What should I do to keep from having to re-upload
each file after I make a
>>change to
>> the template?
Nothing you can do, again it's just how Templates work. You
can however read
about server side includes (ssi) in DW Help and other places
(Google) and
use them to replace some pieces of your Template. For example
put your menu
(navigation) in an Include file. Change just that file when
you need to
modify your menu. Then upload just that Include file and it
will be (what
else?) *included* in all your pages.
Walt
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>I use one template for 62 files which I have already
uploaded. I made a
>change
> to the template which updated my files offline but do I
have to re-upload
> all
> these files again? When I just upload the template, none
of the other
> files
> online automatically updated. This is my first use of
templates and I
> assumed
> that if you modify the template then the change will
carry over to each
> associated file that already resides on the server which
would be great.
> What
> should I do to keep from having to re-upload each file
after I make a
> change to
> the template?
>
> Thanks, Steve
>

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