Updating Links in Template files

I updated a link in my template file, and everything looked
fine, but after i put the file live, the website still points to
the old link? any ideas?

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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"dksoccer" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I probably misstated that...it isn't the cahe,
dreamweaver itself is still
>pointing to the old page, is there another place that I
need to update
>besides in the template?

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>I am still having problems getting Dreamweaver 8 to work
the same way as my
> Dreamweaver MX2004. When I use the file panel in
Dreamweaver 8 to change
> the
> name of a file it does not update my links throughout
out site. I have
> gone to
> EDIT > PREFERENCE and made sure that update links
when moving files and
> the
> Prompt box is checked.
> I have also tried Site > Advanced > Recreate Site
Cache but it's not
> working.
>
>
> Can anyone please help. Thank you.
>

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MadelineCACA wrote:
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http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-dreamweaver-cs5/gs01-defining-a-new-site/
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Can some one please explain why when I update the menu links on my template
now
All my links are displayed like this now when the template updates
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I wish them to be like how they were below
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Question on templates and updating linked files

OK I have a master template file. Let's say it is named
a.dwt. I used a.dwt to create another template (b.dwt) that had
more content on it than a.dwt. I would use b.dwt to create a group
of similar looking pages which still had all the elements of a.dwt
but also the additional content of b.dwt.
Now if I make a change to the a.dwt template, all pages
created from a.dwt change except b.dwt. So either I forgot to
create the b.dwt by going to file->new->page from
template->and then save it as a .dwt OR maybe it's not possible
to have a secondary template that gets updated when the first
template gets updated thus causing all pages from the secondary
template to get updated?
Is there any way to go back and make b.dwt update
automatically whenever a.dwt gets updated? The scenario I have
right now is that I have to make certain site changes on both a.dwt
and b.dwt instead of just making the change on a.dwt and that
change flowing into b.dwt and its spawned pages.

>I think what possibly happened is that I opened a.dwt and
then made the
> addition of the form element to a.dwt but then simply
saved as b.dwt
> instead of
> FILE | New From Template
Yes, I think that's a possible scenario.
> There will be about 15 pages that will look the same
(have the
> same form) except that at the top it will say "Send mail
to Person X"
> where
> Person X will change.
I see. Are you using "mailto:" on each of those forms? This
method of
sending form data is notioriously unreliable, you know? It
depends on a)
your visitor's browser knowing what to do with such a link,
and b) your
visitor's email client knowing what to do with such a link,
and c) your
visitor not being put off by the security alert message that
may pop up when
they click. Nevermind the fact that it fails completely in
public locations
that do not have an email client installed.
Why not do this the right way with server scripting? In that
case you could
have a single page with a single form, and let the visitor
select a name as
the recipient from a list/menu field.
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"Johnny the boy" <[email protected]> wrote
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>I think what possibly happened is that I opened a.dwt and
then made the
> addition of the form element to a.dwt but then simply
saved as b.dwt
> instead of
> FILE | New From Template
>
> Thus when I made changes to a.dwt, they did not
propagate to pages created
> from b.dwt
>
> I am asking you what I should do. Should I create a new
page from a.dwt
> and
> then paste in the form code (which is the additional
code that
> differentiates
> it from a.dwt)? There will be about 15 pages that will
look the same
> (have the
> same form) except that at the top it will say "Send mail
to Person X"
> where
> Person X will change.
>
> Or should I nest the templates by doing your steps:
> 1. Create a.dwt.
> 2. Spawn a child from a.dwt with FILE | New From
Template..., and select
> a.dwt
> 3. Edit this child, as needed, and then SAVE IT AS A
TEMPLATE, e.g., FILE
> |
> Save as Template....
>
> I do not understand how there will be a complex
maintenance price. The
> behavior that I would be looking for is that if I had to
make an addition
> or
> edit of the navigation using a.dwt, the change would
carry over to the
> b.dwt
> template and it's pages.
>
> I am kind of leaning towards copying the code that is
already present for
> the
> forms spawned from b.dwt and then pasting it into a
brand new page that is
> spawned from a.dwt but I don't know if that's the best
way to do it or if
> there
> would be consequences.
>

Update links in file created based on the template page

Hello everyone:
a) I have problems when update links in files crated based on
a template page.
I read Dreamwaver (DW) help menu. Seems to me Dreamwaver is
smart enough to update links based on correct file structure.
I created a template file based on a sample page. Template
file saved to the template folder. Then I crated few pages based on
the template. I checked links in new files and found that link
structures are based on template folder, not based on files current
folder position.
Please give me some suggestions on how to correct this
problem. If you know some good online tutorial or documentations
please share with me.
b) Can DW template update Navigation bar links correctly
based on relative document path?
I have Navbars imported from Fireworks into DW. Files crated
based on template are not updating pop-up menu links correctly. I
manually updated every links. It is time consuming and

> I created a template file based on a sample page.
Template file saved to
> the
> template folder. Then I crated few pages based on the
template. I checked
> links
> in new files and found that link structures are based on
template folder,
> not
> based on files current folder position.
This means that you are entering the links manually, not
using the Property
inspector and browsing to the target file. You should do it
this way until
you understand how templates work. All links in a template
file should
(usually) be one of three kinds -
1. Document relative BASED ON THE TEMPLATE, e.g.,
<a href="../whatever....
2. Root relative, e.g.,
<a href="/whatever....
3. Absolute, e.g.,
<a href=''
http://www.example.com/whatever....
Anything else will always result in the Template folder being
placed in the
path for the link when you create a child page.
> b) Can DW template update Navigation bar links correctly
based on relative
> document path?
Yes, of course.
> I have Navbars imported from Fireworks into DW.
This could easily be one of your problems. Those menus are
definitely
broken and should never be used.
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"sjmacro" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hello everyone:
>
> a) I have problems when update links in files crated
based on a template
> page.
>
> I read Dreamwaver (DW) help menu. Seems to me Dreamwaver
is smart enough
> to
> update links based on correct file structure.
>
> I created a template file based on a sample page.
Template file saved to
> the
> template folder. Then I crated few pages based on the
template. I checked
> links
> in new files and found that link structures are based on
template folder,
> not
> based on files current folder position.
>
> Please give me some suggestions on how to correct this
problem. If you
> know
> some good online tutorial or documentations please share
with me.
>
> b) Can DW template update Navigation bar links correctly
based on relative
> document path?
> I have Navbars imported from Fireworks into DW. Files
crated based on
> template are not updating pop-up menu links correctly. I
manually updated
> every
> links. It is time consuming and
>
>

Dreamweaver Template files not updating other files

I took over a website and the site uses Dreamweaver Templates. I'm not too familiar with the way that Templates works. Anyway, the nav (links at bottom of website) need to be updated. I updated the secondary.dwt file within the Templates folder. I uploaded it, but it's not updating the pages on the website that use this template file. Please help!

When you update the template from within DW, you should get a dialog asking if you want to update all of the files that use the template. When you click "OK" everything is updated across the site.
If you updated the template outside of the defined site, it won't update anything and you may have a bit of work on your hands.
In DW, you should have a Files tab with a drop down menu. The drop down menu should have all of your defined sites. Choose the site you are working on and a list of the files in that site will appear. Choose the template and make your changes and it will ask if you want to update everything else.

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
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> 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?
>

Updating sniffer code link in Template

I have a horizontal CSS menu in a DW template that requires a
bit of sniffer code to work properly in IE
Below is the code in the template:

Child pages of the template do not update the path to
csshover.htc to create the proper relative path.
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Thanks,
Jegger

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 have an email link in my site's template that when I
change the links
>properties, it doesn't update on the linked pages. Any
suggestions?

Template updates links not correctly

Dreamweaver CS3 for Mac:
I had to add the following into my already existing sitewide
template file:

but unfortunately links that are more than one level deep do
not update correctly on my HTML pages.
Is there a way to make this work?
Martin

>Ok, it seems that Dreamweaver is overstrained by altering
template links within conditional statements.
>Thats very sad, if this group is read by Adobe people
please fix this before Dreamweaver CS4!
>I prefer clean HTML files but it seems the only solution
is to bloat each and every file with browser specific CSS or
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notation) NOT the template. You may not see this in the design view
of DW depending on what version you are using and how you have set
DW up to include links (See options/preferences).
If you have multiple levels of pages, then you HAVE to use
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problem.
If you want to see the correct result in Design view, you may
have to use 'Design time stylesheets' : Look up the term in DW
help.
s

"Update Template Files" not working, Dreamweaver CS5

"Update Template Files" does not seem to be working in Dreamweaver CS5.
After making a change to a template and saving it, I get the "Update Template Files" dialog box. It lists all of the files based on the template. So, I click "Update". Then, the "Update Pages" dialog box appears. Any files to be updated already open in Dreamweaver are modified correctly - in memory, that is. However, closed files do not get modified. The "Update Pages" dialog box seems to just get hung up. It just sits there with a status of "Updating...".
Is this an installation issue? ... a template issue? ... or what?
FYI: I am using the 32-bit version for 32-bit Windows Vista.

Not that it will be of any use, the template is here: http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B4haLf-RrxgTZjVhYzEwOWYtNmMyMC00MWVmLWJiNDgtYTYzM2QzZDI5Zm Fh&hl=en
There have been, of course, numerous updates to it since the problem disappeared.
As for the specifics of what I was trying to change when the problem was first encountered, I was attempting to change a link URI in the navigation bar. However, any change at all would end the same way, with a locked up template synchronizer (or whatever the mechanism is called). Just before I gave up testing, I was repeating the process of simply adding a space anywhere and removing it in order to trigger the modified flag.

Dreamweaver CS6 file update issue with template

I am working my way through Adobe's Dreamweaver CS6 Classroom in a Book on an iMac computer. I'm in Chapter 9 and have placed some button links in a webpage within the template. But when I go to update the about_us.html file from the template, the update indicates that it will only update files from Chapters 6 & 7. Thus I cannot update the Chapter 9 about_us file (or any other files in Chapter 9 I'm presuming). What can I do? I do not know how I can manually update the link html statements in the about_us file because they are greyed out (inactive, due to button region locking that was done in Chapter 7. I'm really stumped and blocked from continuing, so I sure could use some help. Thank you in advance!

It's hard to say what you could have missed, if Templates aren't done just right, things can go wrong fast.
I would go back to chapter 7 (the last point things seem to work correctly) and redo everything up to chapter 9 to make sure I didn't accidentally skip any steps. Pay particular attention to any step pertaining to creating new pages from templates or applying a template to an already existing page.

Dreamweaver CS4 - Update Template Files dialog box doesn't appear

I've just made a small change to my website's template file in Dreamweaver CS4, but I can't figure out how to apply the change to all pages on my site.
As I understand it, a dialog box is supposed to appear immediately after you hit 'Save'. This gives you 'Update' or 'Don't Update' options.
The box does not appear for me. No idea why - I saved the revised template and nothing happened!
Is there another way of updating the webpage files with the revised template? Or can it only be done though the dialog box? If so, how can I bring the box up?
Thanks for any tips, tricks, or explanations...

Well, I'm not sure what rule I've broken. I followed the procedure set out in that tutorial to make my template in the first place, although I used Janine Warner's book 'Teach yourself Dreamweaver CS4' which goes through the same steps as the web tutorial - with the exception of the 'Apply your Dreamweaver template' section, which seems to suggest that you create your web pages first, and turn them into templates later.
I simply created my basic page layout, saved it as a template, and then created every page on my site by clicking 'New from template'. No problems, everything worked well.
I don't see why it would be necessary to create a new page from a template, and then apply the template to the page. Doesn't that amount to using two different methods to do the same thing twice? In any case, there's nothing in the book about 'Applying' a template, so I didn't do it. That's the only point of difference. But is it the problem? Is the book wrong?
Now I've got the book open in front of me at page 196 - 'Edit a template to update web pages created with it'. Interestingly, I may have discovered why it was not possible to edit my link in the Property Inspector.
The book remarks, more or less as an afterthought tacked on to the end of the page, that in order to use the Property Inspector to edit a template, I must first click on the element I wish to edit and then click 'Modify', 'Templates', and 'Make Attribute Editable'. Only then can changes be made.
The book says nothing about editing elements *without* using the Property Inspector, as I attempted when I tried the 'Insert Hyperlink' method, so I'm not sure whether this is possible or not. As it didn't work for me, I'd say not - but it would be nice if the book was specific on this point!
It's amazing how vague some of these tutorials can be - and also rather baffling that they can differ so much from each other. Website construction is all about specifics after all - everything is either 100% right, or 100% wrong. There shouldn't be any room for fuzziness. As it seems I have a specific problem, it must come from a specific, identifiable cause. It should be possible to say, "Ah, now if THAT is going wrong, the error must be HERE. Fix it by doing THIS."
Well, I'll try making the attributes of my elements editable now. I'm not sure if a text link counts as an element (that's another point on which my book is a little vague), but I dare say I'll find out shortly!

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