Re: updating templates
From: Jim Buyens (news_at_interlacken.com)
Date: 02/18/04
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Date: 17 Feb 2004 19:27:16 -0800
Well, if not a bug, then a remarkably bug-like feature.
The problem is that the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions (the most
recent available) predate DWTs. As a result, the FP 2002 SE don't
maintain where-used information for each template.
I thought the procedure I originally suggested was reliable, but after
further testing (and review by the replay official) I see that it only
works part of the time. The following procedure does, however, seem to
be reliable.
1. Open your server-based Web as a disk-based Web. If, for example,
you Web resides at http://localhost/dwtweb, choose Open Site from
the File menu and specify C:\InetPub\wwwroot\dwtweb.
2. Choose Recalculate Hyperlinks from the Tools menu.
3. Open the DWT, make any changes you like, and save the DWT.
This takes advantage of the fact that DWTs work correctly in
disk-based
Web site, even though they don't in a FP2002 server-extended Web.
Curiously, after opening a server-based Web as disk-based and
recalculating hyperlinks, the original procedure will work. That's
because the where-used information is now present. But if you attach a
template to any new pages or detach it from any existing ones, the FP
2002 SE won't update the cross-reference and propagation of DWT
changes will be incomplete at best.
Sorry for any confusion.
And no, I don't know whether any fix is in the works.
Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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rangerleaf@hotmail.com (ranger leaf) wrote in message news:<2ba3330a.0402170954.1a96e613@posting.google.com>...
> > In server-based Web running the FrontPage 2002 or earlier
> > server extensions:
> >
> > 1. Choose Reports from the View menu, and then
> > Shared Content and Dynamic Web Templates.
> > 2. Click the Dynamic Web Template column heading
> > to sort on that column.
> > 3. Select all the files that attach the DWT you
> > modified.
> > 4. Choose Dynamic Web Templates from the Format menu,
> > and then choose Update Selected Page.
>
> And.... nothing happens. Unless all the files you want to update. I
> have to open all of them first, then update works. Seems like a bug to
> me. Frontpage 2003, web-based site.
>
> leaf
>
>
> "Jim Buyens" <news@interlacken.com> wrote in message news:<10a5401c3f4cc$34921340$a101280a@phx.gbl>...
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >I'm trying to discover how to update my tempates attached
> > >to pages on a front page site. I can easily do it in
> > >dreamweaver by simply clicking update. I can't find this
> > >option anywhere in front page. Can you help me?
> >
> > In a disk-based Web or one using Windows SharePoint
> > Services:
> >
> > 1. Select the DWT in the Folder list or Fodlers view.
> > 2. Choose Dynamic Web Templates from the Format menu,
> > and then choose Update Attached Pages.
> >
> > In server-based Web running the FrontPage 2002 or earlier
> > server extensions:
> >
> > 1. Choose Reports from the View menu, and then
> > Shared Content and Dynamic Web Templates.
> > 2. Click the Dynamic Web Template column heading
> > to sort on that column.
> > 3. Select all the files that attach the DWT you
> > modified.
> > 4. Choose Dynamic Web Templates from the Format menu,
> > and then choose Update Selected Page.
> >
> > Jim Buyens
> > Microsoft FrontPage MVP
> > http://www.interlacken.com
> > Author of:
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> > |\---------------------------------------------------
> > || Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
> > ||---------------------------------------------------
> > || Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
> > || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
> > || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
> > || (All from Microsoft Press)
> > |/---------------------------------------------------
> > *----------------------------------------------------
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