Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 - Manual (Page 600)

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Dynamic sites, pages and web forms
Last updated 6/3/2015
Note: Though Dreamweaver only supports creating data formats for ASP pages, ColdFusion and PHP users can
download formats that other developers created, or create server formats and post them to the Dreamweaver Exchange.
For more information on the Server Format API, see Extending Dreamweaver(Help > Extending Dreamweaver >
Server Formats).
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Viewing live data
Note: The user interface has been simplified in Dreamweaver CC and later. As a result, you may not find some of the
options described in this article in Dreamweaver CC and later. For more information, see
this article .
The View Live Data feature has been deprecated as of Dreamweaver CS5. It has been replaced by the more streamlined
Live view feature.
To view live data in Live view, make sure that you have done the following:
• Define a folder to process dynamic pages (for example, a root folder on a ColdFusion server, either on your
computer or on a remote machine).
If the page displays an error message when you enter Live View, make sure the Web URL in the Site Definition dialog
box is correct.
• Copy related files (if any) to the folder.
• Provide the page with any parameters a user would normally provide.
Provide the page with live data in Live view
1 Open the Live View Settings dialog box (View > Live View Options > HTTP Request Settings).
2 In the URL Request area, click the Plus (+) button and enter a parameter your page expects.
3 Specify a name and a test value for each parameter.
4 In the Method pop-up menu, select the HTML form method your page expects: POST or GET.
5 To save your settings for the current page, select Save SettingsFor This Document, and click OK.
Note: To save the settings, you must enable Design Notes (File > Design Notes).
Troubleshooting live data in Live view
Many problems viewing live data in Live view can be traced back to missing or incorrect values in the Site Definition
dialog box (Site > Edit Sites).
Check the settings for the server that you’ve specified as your testing server. You need to specify a folder capable of
processing dynamic pages where the Site Definition dialog asks for a server folder or root directory. Here’s an example
of a suitable server folder if you’re running IIS or PWS on your hard disk:
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\myapp\