FP2003 Templates (*.tem) vs. Dynamic Web Templates (*.dwt)

[Patch and Go]

Can some compare and contrast for me the differences between using FP2003
Templates (*.tem) and Dynamic Web Templates (*.dwt)? I am particularly
interested in discovering if there are any real advantages (or
disadvantages) in choosing to use one over the other.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

A .tem page is a template that once applied to a set of pages, it is fixed and can not be update by
making changes to the template, whereas a Dynamic Web Template ( in FP2003) will update all page
using the template in disk based web.

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[Patch and Go]

Thanks for taking the time to respond. The answer is so simple I wish I
hadn't asked the question. I do have a related question which you or someone
else may be able to answer. Somewhere online at the MS site, I read that you
can attach one DWT (a master template) to another DWT (a subtemplate); that
when you make a change to the master, it changes the subtemplate and all the
pages to which it is attached. I've tried it and it doesn't work. The
moment you save a page as a template, any attached template is stripped out.
I suspect that whoever at MS wrote this information was anticipating a
feature they never implemented. Any thoughts?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Didn't make it into the final release of FP2003.
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