Harley
Wed Aug 30 07:47:22 CDT 2006
Many thanks for your patience, ....
I get all the things you suggest I ought to get;
"C:\My Documents\My Web, ....etc
Appropriate Folder Icon
"Update All Pages" on the Format.DynamicWeb Templates, .....
Thanks again, ....I'll just keep at it.
Harley
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:57:00 -0500, "Roger" <x@y> wrote:
>When you are editing your site in FP, and you look at Folder List (which is
>under the File menu), does it say something like "C:\My Documents\My Web
>Sites\MyWeb" or does it begin "
http://some site/MyWeb. If it begins with
>http you will not get the "there are # pages" dialog.
>
>If it begins "C:\ etc" you may have another problem I have had where a
>directory is not a web site. When you open a site in "My Web Sites in My
>Documents there should be a little globe symbol in the folder indicating
>that FP thinks it is a web site. I have had folders which contain FP pages
>which FP does not treat as a web site and does not deal with templates or
>components properly. Frustrating. I think that you can not just copy a web
>directory from one drive to another but you must "publish"it using FP.
>
>The template should be a .dwt, the pages which you attached this template to
>should be .htm. Open one of the pages which you have based on the template
>and look at Format.Dynamic Web Templates. You should see choices like
>"update this page" and "update all pages" If it is not a file based web you
>will see the first but not the second.
>Good luck.
>
>Roger
>
>"Harley Kieran" <kieranh@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>news:91a9f25s9rogo8h7vblf14rcr5epqovcd1@4ax.com...
>> Exactly !!, ....it should say something like "there are "n" pages that
>> use this template, do you want to update them?, ....but, it doesn't.
>> I do get this kind of response if I rename a page, ...so, I'm
>> convinced that I'm doing something quite wrong with template/child
>> pages. I wonder if child pages should also be saved as .dwt pages
>> rather than .htm pages!
>> Anyone know?
>> Harley
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:57:08 -0500, "Roger" <x@y> wrote:
>>
>>>Where is your development site? I find that it is best to have the
>>>development site as a disk-based site, e.g.
>>>C:\My Documents\My Web Sites\MySite
>>>
>>>A lot of the report tools only work this way but, for me, the most
>>>important
>>>thing is that when you edit a template FP will say "there are 29 pages
>>>that
>>>use this template, do you want to update them?" If I develop the site on
>>>a
>>>FP server, like the one on my own machine, this does not happen and I have
>>>to open each page and manually update it. When you publish everything
>>>gets
>>>updated.
>>>
>>>Roger
>>>
>>>"Harley Kieran" <kieranh@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>>>news:res7f29l30gb7q1gv6o7jq8cfl35vutkc0@4ax.com...
>>>> My master template page a (.dwt file) consists only of
>>>> (Structure)Tables, Title, Icons, Buttons and Button Navigation.,
>>>> .....no problem.
>>>> I then load the .dwt file, ....insert page specific information in the
>>>> various table/cells and save the resultant files (.htm files) as
>>>> needed by the Button Links.
>>>> .....no problem, master and child files work well.
>>>> I then edit something in the Master Template file, eg: a simple
>>>> spelling error, .....(thinking it will correct the error in all child
>>>> files), ........wrong!
>>>> I've poured through Microsoft's FP2003 "Step-by-Step" but am unable to
>>>> learn where I'm messing-up.
>>>> Can someone, ...please point me in the right direction?
>>>
>