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dipaulk
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Jan 18, 2007, 2:27 PM
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I designed the website in Dreamweaver creating a template so that when a page was removed or added it would be easy to update all the links. Now I discover that doing so removes all the page publisher contents off the pages! How do you update DreamWeaver pages via templates without removing the page publisher content? Surely you don't have to go through and manually update every link on every page  I use a FTP upload utility to upload new pages and overwrite updated pages.
(This post was edited by dipaulk on Jan 18, 2007, 5:41 PM)
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ChetW
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Jan 20, 2007, 1:05 PM
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Hi dipaulk,
Thanks for the post!
If I understand correctly the Page Publisher PML tags are being stripped out of your HTML files when you edit them in Dreamweaver, is this correct? If so you may want to try looking at your Dreamweaver "Never Rewrite Code" options. :)
Myself I'm not very famaliar with Dreamweaver however this option seems to tell Dreamweaver to never rewrite code. You can read more about this Dreamweaver option here:http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=12&catid=189&threadid=1231960&enterthread=y[/url[/url]]
Does this help Dipaulk? If you have any other questions please feel free to ask!
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dipaulk
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Jan 20, 2007, 5:52 PM
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After multiple requests for support by email, telephone and forum and having received too little too late, I have been able to finally figure this out for myself. I am posting this information in case some other poor soul needs the information and encounters the same lack of response from support that I have.
If you're using DreamWeaver and design your own template for the site, go ahead and design it as you normally would and insert your template region where you want to allow your client to edit his/her website. Save your template. Make a nested template. Then start to make your pages.
With each page that you make, switch to code view, and inside the <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="EditRegion#" --> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --> tags put your PML tags. I used the WYSIWYG editor, so my tags looked like this:
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="EditRegion3" --><!-- publish type="wysiwyg" name=" Statement of Faith Content " format="html" -->content goes here <!-- /publish --><!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
I had to change the Content name for each page. Save the pages.
Upload your pages and add them to Page Publisher.
The trick to updating via template is that when you need to make a universal change to the site by changing the template, you must first download and overwrite all your local files from the server (because your client has added content to the pages), then make the change to the template, save, and upload the changed files back to the server.
I hope this makes sense. After spending days working through it without help it now looks so easy. When I was struggling trying to learn a new program, it wasn't so easy to figure out.
I hope this will prove helpful to someone in the future. The Page Publisher product is good -- too bad the support is not what they say it is on the home page!
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dvgrrl
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Jan 25, 2007, 11:45 AM
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I use Dreamweaver templates for all of my sites too. What i ended up doing was inserting the updated template code in the HTML area of the PP admin. This was ok for a ten page site - but i worried about what i was going to do when a site is larger and the client has added a lot to it. Thanks for posting how you figured it out!
Does all of the client's content re-upload properly when you do this? Did any information get lost etc?
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dipaulk
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Jan 25, 2007, 12:33 PM
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Unfortunately, my first site with Page Publisher was over a hundred pages. So far it's worked fine to download everything from the server, update the template in DreamWeaver and save, then reupload. I tell them when I'm going to do this so they'll stay off the site. None of the formatting has been lost yet. I'm glad I was able to help someone.
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dvgrrl
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Thanks for the advice!
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_kate_
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Feb 21, 2007, 12:05 AM
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Hi,
Just thought I'd say I use dreamweaver templates for just about all my websites and I've never had this problem. I use the page publisher tags on the pages and update with the template and nothing is removed. Perhaps this is because the page publisher tags go into "editable regions" on the sites I make? Hope that helps.
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