Uneditable Regions

Hi,
I am an Administrator for this website. However, I took it
over from someone who was fired and I am not exactly sure what all
he did with the site. On the home page there is a Flash Banner and
when I edit the page I am not allowed to delete the place holder
for the banner. The Message I receive is : You cannot perform this
action in this region of the page. I have tried going to Edit-
Actions- Edit Page when I am in the edit page mode to unlock the
regions, but it won't allow me to do this. There are no templates
for this website, so I'm not sure what to do to get rid of this
banner. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You! Kate

Hi Kate,
I'm having a similar problem. Did you ever get this resolved?
Shelley

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Warning about uneditable region of dwt

I've run into a situation where I need to copy and paste some
sections of an existing page into the editable regions of a new
page (obviously based on a template).
After doing some cut and paste into the new document in Code
view I get a warning (when I preview in browser) that I've made
changes in an uneditable region. But if I move to Design view and
copy/paste it works fine.
I can actually go into the code in the new page, add a space
right in the middle of an editable region and get the error, but
don't get any error in Design view.
I can debug the template, but I can't figure out what could
possible cause the situation. The template looks fine and I've
worked quite a bit with it over time. Can someone offer up some
possible causes?
Tom

Tom:
This is a tough lesson that we have all stumbled over. DW
just wants valid
code, to work properly....
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>I am so embarrassed and once again have learned a very
basic lesson.
>
> The embarassment is that I've been given this advice
before (validate
> first)
> and, once again, forgot it. The learning is how
unpredictable errors in
> html
> and css can be.
>
> The html for the template validated. I then took the
full html for one of
> the
> pages I was having trouble with which also validated.
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> I decided to run the css validation and....
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#0F0.) The other
> had to
> do with a list-style-image which should have been
list-style-position.
>
> Here's my humbling lesson re-learned: By correcting
these two seemingly
> innocent and unrelated css errors the problem I was
having with editing in
> CODE
> and SPLIT view went away!!!
>
> I value online user forums a great deal particularly
this one. One of
> these
> days I'm going to get in the habit of doing a full
validation BEFORE
> asking for
> help.
>
> Murray, once again, thanks for reminding me what I need
to do before
> asking
> for help.
>
> Tom
>

Is there any way to edit an uneditable region and still keep it uneditable?

I have a hobby site: http://www.grantbarker.com
I've just got into Facebook and Google+ and I've added a couple of share this site buttons in my main menu. The main menu is linked to a template so that any changes propogate to the other pages. I'm not much of a coder. I'd like the Facebook and Google+ buttons on each page's menu to simply have that pages url to share (share this page, not site). This means that I need them to be different on each page, but I'd like the menu itself to propogate from my template.
The menu is more important and I don't mind adjusting the Facebook and Google+ button code by hand.
How would you do this? Is it possible to break into the uneditable region via the code screen to hack the page, so to speak?
Thanks for any advice.
(I'm not sure if it's possible to have the actual 2 buttons themselves independent from the menu's uneditable region.)
Have a good day. I must get ready for work. Will check back this evening.

Sorry, I didn't maybe word it correctly?
I already use a template for the main menu (plus other regions) on all of my 60 pages.
If I want to change just a couple of things on some of the menus on some of the pages, but keep most of the menu the same, is it possible to hack into the code on some of the pages, just to change a few small details?
I realize that using the template will propogate to all of my child pages. I just want to be able to also add a few extra changes to some of those child pages when necessary.
EG. Imagine I was a dentist. I want all of my 60 patients to have the same mouth and exactly the same set of teeth, but a few of them I would like to also have special fillings on their teeth.
I wonder if it is possible to open a few of the child pages in code view and make a few small cosmetic changes to the code when necessary.
When I update my main menu with the template it will update all of the child pages as expected. Then I'd like to hack a few of those pages to make tiny changes to those menus.
Sorry, if I'm not explaining myself so well.
Thanks for any advice.

Editable/Uneditable Region (Template)

Hi,
I am using dreamweaver to design my personal website. I need some help please.
I created a template and designed some pages based on it. I have two editable regions in the template. I want to change one of them to uneditable.
Could you please tell me how to do it?
Thank you for your help.
Ray

Hi,
here is an ADOBE tuorial, where you will find some hints how to "Insert a non-editable optional region" or "Insert an editable optional region":
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7aa9a .html#WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7aa8a.
And "make an editable tag attribute uneditable":
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7aa2a .html
The links are a little bit long, hope you will see them!
Hans-G.

Nesting uneditable regions inside editable regions? [CS5]

Hello, I am running into a situation where I have a template structure looking like:
<ul id="outer">
     <li class="nohighlight"><a href="something.html">A page</a>
                 <ul id="inner">
                        <li><a href="other.html">A subpage</a></li>
                 </ul>
     </li>
     <li class="highlight"><a href="something2.html">Another page</a>
                  <ul id="inner2">
                         <li><a href="other2.html">Another subpage</a></li>
                  </ul>
      </li>
</ul>
Now what I would like to do be apply to create new html documents from the template that uses the above structure, and be able to edit the CSS class in the new document. This is easily done by making the (outer) li tags into editable regions. But I would also like to be able to modify/update the "inner" lists in the template file and apply these updates to all files using the template.
Something like:
<li class="nohighlight"><a href="something.html" >A page </a>
            <ul>
              <li><a href="#">The Hydrological Cycle</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
Does not work as Dreamweaver ends up auto-completing the <li> tag when templates are applied, leaving the document with two </li>.
Is there a way to make a child tag uneditable and hence to make it update in files when the template is updated, when its parent tag's CSS class remains editable?
Thanks,
Ron

Build your menu with a persistent page indicator and you won't need to change anything on your pages except the body class name.
I keep my menus in server-side include files and this method works great.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2647186#2647186
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Making Uneditable Regions Editable without the Original Template

Hi All,
I am currently designing a new website. I created a webpage and made it a template with editable regions so that future pages would be easy to make (Parent Page). However i have completly overwritten the template with what was suppost to be a new template and saved it not relising it was the main template for my site. So to sum it up it is gone and is beyond repair. I have child pages of the template, however these have non-editable regions and i would like to make them editable again so i can save it over the original template file so it becomes the template again.
How do you make a child page the parent page or remove the editable regions without having to redesign the whole page again?
Any Help will be appreciated.
Thanks

I've done it this way. Open your child page in NoteTab or some other plain text editor. Strip out all of the DWTemplate code. SaveAs my-new-template.html.
Open it in Dreamweaver. Preview in browsers, Validate code. When you're completely satisfied with it, SaveAs Template. Insert editable regions. Save & Close.
You now have a new Template to work with.
Nancy O.
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Editing uneditable regions on template using CS4

I am updating an existing website using CS4.(I'm new at this) I went into the template made changes & saved it. None of the changes show up on the web pages. The update dialog box did not show up when I saved the changes. When I went into the Asset file under templates there were none showing up. But the template file is under the local files. Obviously I'm missing something. Please help.

I'll save the original poster some trouble.
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 thanits *.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 DW) 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

Can a div be an editable region in a template?

This is my first attempt to work with templates. I have a main area in the center of the page where I want to be able to adjust font-size, and perhaps other text properties. I use a div called "textbox" I set it up as an editable region, but every time I try to change font-size, I am told that this is an uneditable region and the change will be discarded. Here is the code in my program:

    <div id ="textbox">
      <p>Here is some text in the box</p>
      <p> </p>
    </div>
    
Any suggestions?

Okay - all is well. Yet again I find myself spend as much or more time in Code view, than Design view. With the cursor inbetween a couple of divs, I could make it editable. I found in a couple of cases the editable region was stuck in an odd random place in the page - Code view helped me figure it out.
<div id="mainContent">

/* all the below is editable */
<div id="featureBox1"><h3>Feature box one</h3>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio.</p>
    </div><div id="featureBox2"><h3>Feature box two</h3>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio.</p>
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</div>

Help with Editable Regions and Image Swap

I need some assistance for a project I am working on, and I don't know a short way to describe. Hang with me, here it goes....
I am working with the sites 'Navigation' links. I want to use a MouseOver behavior so that the image swaps when moused over. I want the MousedOver image to remain when you are on that page. I can manually make this happen, but I am running into difficulty because I want the Navigation to be located in an un-editable region so when I add new pages, the entire site will update as I make changes to the template.
I don't know how to create this effect without manually swapping all the images via behaviors on each and every page, and when I need to do these edits, the region needs to be in an UnEditable region so that the template will update all the pages.
I guess the question is, how can I customize images from page to page in an Un-Editable region in a Template driven page?
Thanks.

Image swaps are clumsy for navigation because you have to re-craft your menus every time you edit your site. This gets very old in a hurry.
CSS styled menus are not only easier to maintain in DW they are web friendly for all devices -- especially Smartphones who may have images disabled to save on bandwidth charges.
DW comes with Spry Menus which you can customize with CSS
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/menubar/MenuBarSample.html
Additionally, there are some excellent DW extensions you can use to build professional looking CSS menus in seconds.
http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm2/index.htm
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Adobe CS5 adding extra code to an uneditable section of the page?

I have a website that was created in Dreamweaver and has editable regions set for other people to manage the content using Contribute. The main author of the website is using Contribute CS5, and it is adding extra code to an uneditable region of the page (as defined in the template), which messes up the layout of the header and footer. Can anyone help me figure out why this is happening and how to fix it?
I have edited the page successfully through my version of Contribute, which is 6.5--it does not add that extra junk into the code.
The solution, might be to move my user over to 6.5, but I want to find out why it is happening, before we spend any additional money on the program.

What's the code?

Unable to edit link in Contribute CS5 (mac)

I am trying to edit a webpage in Contribute. I create a draft of my homepage, and I am trying to edit one of the links. However, other than a small text box, the mouse pointer is a circle with a slash through it, and thus I can't edit the link I need to edit. This is Contribute CS5 on a Mac. Any ideas?

Did you create the site?
It sounds like the site was built using templates and contains uneditable regions or it's within an include file (or a few other possibilities). Do you have a link to the page that you can't edit the link on?
If so, provide a link to that page and let us know what link you can't edit and we can look.

Can Flex make a Design Tool with a quality output file?

Hi there,
I have a team of developers working on a web-based design tool for a large-format print shop. They built the prototype on a Flex platform and used ImageMagick to handle text and image effects.
Unfortunately, ImageMagick cannot produce the quality of output file we need for our products (prints up to 3 ft by 6 ft / 1m x 2m). It rasterizes all of the design objects, including text and vector clipart.
Is it possible for Flex to handle all of these elements (object rotation, scale changes, etc.) and output a final design to high quality PDF or AI files without ImageMagick?
I'm just not sure if my developers are missing something or if they're just not communicating the technical challenges involved in creating such large, high quality output files for a custom, web-based application.
Many thanks in advance for any insight!

I'm still not sure I understand what you need. Sounds like the image map is the same for all the pages, but the image itself is different, although the images are the same size on each page. Is that it?
In that case, you could do this in a number of ways, but the best might be -
Make the page have a transparent PNG/GIF image the same size as the map that has the 5 mapped areas defined on it. Make the container for that image have a CSS BACKGROUND image that is the actual map. Specify this CSS background image's path in an embedded stylesheet in the editable region of the head of the page.
With this as the template, all you need to do on each page is to respecify the background image - since the embedded stylesheet is in an editable region that's do-able. In other words the TEMPLATE would be -
<html>
<head>

</head>
<body>
<div id="foo">
     <img width="map_width" height="map_height" src="transparent.png" usemap="#foomap">
<map name="foomap">
</map>
</body>
</html>
The map image can, itself, be in an uneditable region of the page....

Template Bug? Not sure where to post. I have a sample.

It seems that Dreamweaver 2004 MX (version 7.0.1 on Windows
XP) gets confused if you create a page with invalid HTML. I've seen
some other posts on this, but I'm not sure if it's been fixed.
If you do the following, you'll get the popup warning "You
have made changes to code that is not marked as editable.. blah
blah blah" even though you did not make changes to uneditable
regions.
1. Make a remote site with a local web directory. On my
machine, I run Apache (
http://localhost), treat it as a
remote site, and copy files to Apache's local directory.
2. Create a template with 1 editable region: EditRegion3
3. Create a page using the template.
4. Enter in a <form> </form>tag and some text.
5. Select Put for the file.
Works fine at this point.
To invoke the bug:
1. Remove the </form> tag.
2. Select put.
3. The InstanceBeginEditable name="EditRegion3" tag turns
color: from gray to black.
4. Close and reopen the file.
5. Make a minor edit.
6. Select Put.
7. Presto - warning dialogue shows.
I attached both versions. By the way, I was able to "fix" the
broken edit region by closing (not saving changes) and reopening
the file, adding back the missing </form> and saving. Then
Put works with no error message.

So lemme understand this. If you hack a page so that it
contains invalid
code, you get a template error? Is that a surprise?
Anyhow, there are several workarounds, and I see that you
have found one.
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"fred_sl" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> It seems that Dreamweaver 2004 MX (version 7.0.1 on
Windows XP) gets
> confused
> if you create a page with invalid HTML. I've seen some
other posts on
> this, but
> I'm not sure if it's been fixed.
>
> If you do the following, you'll get the popup warning
"You have made
> changes
> to code that is not marked as editable.. blah blah blah"
even though you
> did
> not make changes to uneditable regions.
>
> 1. Make a remote site with a local web directory. On my
machine, I run
> Apache
> (
http://localhost), treat it as a
remote site, and copy files to Apache's
> local
> directory.
> 2. Create a template with 1 editable region: EditRegion3
> 3. Create a page using the template.
> 4. Enter in a <form> </form>tag and some
text.
> 5. Select Put for the file.
>
> Works fine at this point.
>
> To invoke the bug:
> 1. Remove the </form> tag.
> 2. Select put.
> 3. The InstanceBeginEditable name="EditRegion3" tag
turns color: from gray
> to
> black.
> 4. Close and reopen the file.
> 5. Make a minor edit.
> 6. Select Put.
> 7. Presto - warning dialogue shows.
>
> I attached both versions. By the way, I was able to
"fix" the broken edit
> region by closing (not saving changes) and reopening the
file, adding back
> the
> missing </form> and saving. Then Put works with no
error message.
>
>
>
> // VALID HTML
>
> //////////////////////
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
> 
> <title>Admin - Image Upload</title>
> 
> 
> 
> </head>
>
> <body>
> 
>
> <form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
> <table>
> <tr><td>Image
File</td><td><input type="file"
name="FileName"></td></tr>
> <tr><td colspan="2"><input type="submit"
name="Submit"></td></tr>
> </table>
> </form>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> // INVALID HTML
>
> //////////////////
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
> 
> <title>Admin - Image Upload</title>
> 
> 
> 
> </head>
>
> <body>
> 
>
> <form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
> <table>
> <tr><td>Image
File</td><td><input type="file"
name="FileName"></td></tr>
> <tr><td colspan="2"><input type="submit"
name="Submit"></td></tr>
> </table>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>

External CSS and Templates

I am fairly new to using CSS and Dreamweaver having finally taken the plunge and dropped Micromumble mumble... I am wondering about external CSS and templates. When I assign a template to the external CSS does the CSS also translate down to the documents that are attached to the template or do each of them need to be attached to the CSS itself to work as well? Thanks for any help offered.

Just to clarify, if I have a class to define the color of my links in the template that is used in the uneditable regions but I also use the links in the editable regions, do I need to attach the CSS to the child as well?
Need to clarify the terms here.
How is the class defined and what do you mean by attached the CSS?
Probably easier to explain by example.
Can you paste the code here?

SWF banners in DW

I have 2 SWF web banners. I need to place them in a table of
a website make in Dreamweaver. How do make Dreamweaver randomly
select the banners? Or, is this something I command in the .FLA
file? Please be as specific as possible as I only know the basics
of Flash and Dreamweaver. Thanks a lot.
09/13/2007 09:54:16 PM
You could do either of these, in DW you would write a
Javascript method to choose one or the other at random. However you
could also do this with a loader FLA. Since this is a Flash forum
let's look at that route.
Create a new FLA file the size of your banners. you'd create
an empty MC, and use it to load one or the other swf files at
random. Then you would place all the files in the same directory
and embed the 'loader' SWF file in the DW page.
The code for the loader SWF would look something like this:
Attach Code
stop();
var bArray = ['banner1.swf', 'banner2.swf'];
var mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip('mc', 0);
var choice = Math.round(Math.random()*(bArray.length-1));
mc.loadMovie(bArray[choice]);
cbeech
09/17/2007 11:09:49 AM
Thanks. This works when i preview it locally, but it doesn't
work when i put all the files on the server. the banner area shows
up blank. I embeded the 'loader' FLA in the DW file, then put the
other 2 banner files in the same directory on the server. what am i
missing?

editable region shuld be used carefully :| , u have to creat editable rigion for ur tag which will be used rarely, like header (flash , logo), footer content( those content will not be chaned in all paes), menu bar,. so u will have to fix it in editable region by giving them name,, and after puting editable region creat one template page, so when u will creat new html page, go to new >> u will be asked a dialoug, so go to tamplete tag, and select ur created template, and then change only uneditable region content,, if u wnt to edit ur editable content , go to template page, and change it, ur changes will be taken place in all related pages..
best
jvmonteiro wrote:
Hi Mahendra, thanks for yr. help but I'm not quite sure I follow u when u refer the 'editable region' option...Do u mean like I should create a template from the homepage and then change only main content? Can you pls elaborate a little further on that?
Thanks
JV

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