Restoring Navigation FP2002 SP3

[GLMoore]

It's been so long since the last time this happened, I really just don't
remember the cure, and would appreciate a reminder.

My navigation is gone. Not only are my pages' nav buttons gone, but when I
use FP to open the live web, and look at the Nav view, it is totally
depopulated except for the home (index) page. The host just recently
restored the FPSE, I'm assuming that caused the disappearance.

Is the cure to simply reconstruct the nav view online as it is on my local
web, or do I need to republish the entire web? (I should note that for the
past year, I've been using the "Publish Selected Files" feature a lot
instead.)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions on how to restore this feature.

GLMoore

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Publish All should update your online Nav View
- when asked about it during publishing select Replace

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It's been so long since the last time this happened, I really just don't
remember the cure, and would appreciate a reminder.

My navigation is gone. Not only are my pages' nav buttons gone, but when I
use FP to open the live web, and look at the Nav view, it is totally
depopulated except for the home (index) page. The host just recently
restored the FPSE, I'm assuming that caused the disappearance.

Is the cure to simply reconstruct the nav view online as it is on my local
web, or do I need to republish the entire web? (I should note that for the
past year, I've been using the "Publish Selected Files" feature a lot
instead.)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions on how to restore this feature.

GLMoore

 

[Ronx]

You could reconstruct the navigation view on the server, but it would be
better to Publish all pages from your local site to get the two sites back
into synch. At some time you will have to do this anyway, since reinstalling
the extensions replaces the meta data on the server, and can remove the
navigation from a web site.
When you publish, if the question arises, always Replace the navigation on
the server, never Merge it.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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[GLMoore]

For the benefit of the next person, I'll note how this was resolved:

After republishing the _border, _theme and similar folders to ensure all the
"bits" were present on the live web, I opened the live web in FP2002 and used
the Nav View to restore all the pages to the navigation. I then restored the
nav bar on one page where it had gone missing, and when I looked at the next
page I thought would need the same attention, I found that had been restored
(as had all the pages) apparently along with the first page save.

So this isn't very informative about the how or why of the fix, but only
that I was able to reverse the disappearance of the nav bars. If this wasn't
the best was to fix the situation, comments on the preferred way would still
be welcome.

 

[GLMoore]

Thanks to both of you, especially for the tip on "Replace" instead of Merge
.... I'd always thought Merge was the proper answer on that dialog, but maybe
the question was different at the time.

As noted in my 2nd post, I did the nav update on the live site, while
awaiting guidance. I have been avoiding publishing the whole site because
there's a couple mb of large files involved in one folder ... but I believe I
could mark all those "Don't Publish" and get around the issue.

I appreciate the guidance.