Templates properties grayed out

Hi,
Not quite sure if this is the proper newsgroup for this
question, but I'm
sure you'll tell me ;). Today I upgraded to Contribute CS3
because a website
i'm working on now will be maintained with it.
In this website (which is currently only running under
localhost), on most
pages I have optional regions whioch should be set on/off
through the
template properties dialogue. However as soon as I try to
edit one of these
pages and want to edit the Template properties, the option is
grayed out,
and cannot be selected.
I have compared the new optional regions code with earlie
sites I created
but cannot discover the difference. I also tried the same
with Contribute 3
(which I still have installed), and guess what: the template
properties are
avaliable. I've looked every place I can think of, but can;t
find the cause,
let alone the solution.
Anyone who can shed light on this?
Thanks.
John

I seem to have solved the problem by recreating the templates
from scratch.
Templates were created with Dreamweaver 8 , which I upgraded
today also to
CS3. So far backward compatibility ?!
John
"Laiverd.COM" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
news:f37j32$61r$[email protected]..
> Hi,
>
> Not quite sure if this is the proper newsgroup for this
question, but I'm
> sure you'll tell me ;). Today I upgraded to Contribute
CS3 because a
> website i'm working on now will be maintained with it.
>
> In this website (which is currently only running under
localhost), on most
> pages I have optional regions whioch should be set
on/off through the
> template properties dialogue. However as soon as I try
to edit one of
> these pages and want to edit the Template properties,
the option is grayed
> out, and cannot be selected.
>
> I have compared the new optional regions code with
earlie sites I created
> but cannot discover the difference. I also tried the
same with Contribute
> 3 (which I still have installed), and guess what: the
template properties
> are avaliable. I've looked every place I can think of,
but can;t find the
> cause, let alone the solution.
>
> Anyone who can shed light on this?
>
> Thanks.
> John
>
>

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