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Update templates in a contribute site, Delete a template file – Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 User Manual

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DREAMWEAVER CS3

User Guide

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Apply template changes to the current template-based document

1

Open the document in the Document window.

2

Select Modify > Templates > Update Current Page.

Dreamweaver updates the document with any template changes.

Update the entire site or all documents that use a specified template

You can update all the pages in the site, or only update pages for a specific template.

1

Select Modify > Templates > Update Pages.

2

In the Look In menu, do one of the following:

To update all the files in the selected site to their corresponding templates, select Entire Site, then select the site
name from the adjacent pop-up menu.

To update files for a specific template, select Files That Use, then select the template name from the
adjacent pop-up menu.

3

Make sure Templates is selected in the Update option.

4

If you don’t want to see a log of the files Dreamweaver updates, deselect the Show Log option; otherwise, leave that

option selected.

5

Click Start to update the files as indicated. If you selected the Show Log option, Dreamweaver provides infor-

mation about the files it attempts to update, including information on whether they were updated successfully.

6

Click Close.

Update templates in a Contribute site

Contribute users can’t make changes to a Dreamweaver template. You can, however, use Dreamweaver to change a
template for a Contribute site

Keep these factors in mind when updating templates in a Contribute site:

Contribute retrieves new and changed templates from the site only when Contribute starts up and when a
Contribute user changes their connection information. If you make changes to a template while a Contribute user
is editing a file based on that template, the user won’t see the changes to the template until they restart Contribute.

If you remove an editable region from a template, a Contribute user editing a page based on that template might
be confused about what to do with the content that was in that editable region.

To update a template in a Contribute site, complete the following steps.

1

Open the Contribute template in Dreamweaver, edit it, and then save it. For instructions, see “Open a template for

editing” on page 409.

2

Notify all of the Contribute users who are working on the site to restart Contribute.

Delete a template file

1

In the Assets panel (Window > Assets), select the Templates category on the left side of the panel

.

2

Click the name of the template to select it.

3

Click the Delete button

at the bottom of the panel, then confirm that you want to delete the template.

Important: After you delete a template file, you can’t retrieve it. The template file is deleted from your site.

September 4, 2007