Problems with DWT

[Landra Jenkins]

Hello, I have made a DWT page with a layout table. it has
5 cells, which are all editable regions. top, left,
right, middle, and bottom. Now I make a new page with
text and pictures on it and attach it to my DWT in
the "middle" editable region. Everything looks great. The
problem is when I make a change to my DWT and update
attached pages, they don't reflect the changes. And when
I try to detach the DWT nothing appears to happen, The
page still reflects the text and pictures with the look
of the DWT. I should be left with just the text and
pictures right? I don't know why my changes in the DWT
aren't updating on the attached pages. Any advice would
be great.

Thank You,
Landra

 

[Jim Buyens]

Howdy.

Are you performing these edits on a Web server running
the FrontPage Server Extensions?

Because the most recent version of the extensions is
2003, they don't support DWTs, which are new in FrontPage
2003.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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[Landra]

i contacted host. frontpage 2000 extensions are
installed. Would this be my problem?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The DWT are only supported (applying and automatic updating) locally when working with a disk-based
web (c:\..) or on a Windows IIS 6 server running WSS.

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[Adam Spindell]

Thomas -

Where did you find this info about what dwts would work
with? Is this published somewhere on the Microsoft site
or in their literature? Or is this what NewsGroups are
for?

Thanks

Adam

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The DWT are only supported (applying and automatic

updating) locally when working with a disk-based

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;840572&Product=fp2003

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[Adela D]

Oh... this is really important then. I just want to be sure I understand.

I currently have an old theme based web. I work directly on the server.

I just bought a DWT template. If I understand you correctly, I will not be able to work this way with the DWT? I have to work off of my hard drive and then publish the site to the server each time I make changes?

So, for the long view, will there ever be FP extensions that support DWTs? Or, should this not be a concern for me? My site is really big for a personal site, and I do not want to proceed with something that may be more work than it is worth.

Adela D
Adela

 

[Joe Rohn]

Hi Adela,

One workaround to working live on a server with DWT's...If you have all the
pages open, that are using the DWT..and then edit the DWT page itself...it
will update all of those pages using it..and you will need to resave each
page. This is doable if the number of pages are somewhat limited. Any pages
using it that are not open will not be updated.

I believe Sharepoint servers will update all pages using DWT's when you
save. The above is for non-Sharepoint.

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Joe

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Oh... this is really important then. I just want to be sure I understand.

I currently have an old theme based web. I work directly on the server.

I just bought a DWT template. If I understand you correctly, I will not

be able to work this way with the DWT? I have to work off of my hard drive
and then publish the site to the server each time I make changes?

So, for the long view, will there ever be FP extensions that support DWTs?

Or, should this not be a concern for me? My site is really big for a
personal site, and I do not want to proceed with something that may be more
work than it is worth.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

There are no plans to update the FP2002 extensions to support any new features of FP2003.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================

Oh... this is really important then. I just want to be sure I understand.

I currently have an old theme based web. I work directly on the server.

I just bought a DWT template. If I understand you correctly, I will not be able to work this way

with the DWT? I have to work off of my hard drive and then publish the site to the server each time
I make changes?

So, for the long view, will there ever be FP extensions that support DWTs? Or, should this not be

a concern for me? My site is really big for a personal site, and I do not want to proceed with
something that may be more work than it is worth.