files using Dreamweaver Templates

[Manil]

Hi All,

I wanted to know if there is any way to find out which html files were generated using a particular template within a project in Dream Weaver?

We have recently started using Visual Source Safe to manage all our projects- as such when I make a change to a template for one of my projects, I need to check-out files that will get affected by that change ahead of time so that they can be successfully updated (otherwise the files are locked out). If there is a way to know the list from within Dream Weaver, that would be a huge help so I could go and check-out only the ones that will be affected by the template change.

Some sites are huge and checking out all files would take too long.

Thanks!

[AricC]

Hi All,

I wanted to know if there is any way to find out which html files were generated using a particular template within a project in Dream Weaver?

We have recently started using Visual Source Safe to manage all our projects- as such when I make a change to a template for one of my projects, I need to check-out files that will get affected by that change ahead of time so that they can be successfully updated (otherwise the files are locked out). If there is a way to know the list from within Dream Weaver, that would be a huge help so I could go and check-out only the ones that will be affected by the template change.

Some sites are huge and checking out all files would take too long.

Thanks!

I haven't used Dream Weaver but if they include any kind of meta tag like frontpage and a few of the others do you can do a search on the whole server for files containing that text. Other than that I don't think so (I use VSS at work) I'll look around tomorrow.

[nomad]

I haven't used Dream Weaver but if they include any kind of meta tag like frontpage and a few of the others do you can do a search on the whole server for files containing that text. Other than that I don't think so (I use VSS at work) I'll look around tomorrow.

this is correct. look for a tag above the body tag it will have some thing about template as part of the content.
might look something like this
<!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/homepage_master_temp.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->

nomad

[Manil]

this is correct. look for a tag above the body tag it will have some thing about template as part of the content.
might look something like this
<!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/homepage_master_temp.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->

nomad

Great thanks! This will work- however, I was thinking more in terms of an automatically generated list of sorts generated by Dream Weaver. Something likw what comes up when say I want to update pages based on a template and it asks me if I want to modify all files that use that particular template.

[nomad]

Great thanks! This will work- however, I was thinking more in terms of an automatically generated list of sorts generated by Dream Weaver. Something likw what comes up when say I want to update pages based on a template and it asks me if I want to modify all files that use that particular template.

When you get that flag you need to click on yes, otherwise all the files related to that template will not update. Usually when you update a temp is to modify the links or the heading and footers.

nomad