Contribute and templates

[tregs80]

I'm using dreamweaver to create templates for my customer. They have a news
archive section where they want to be able to add news articles.

What I was hoping is that they would be able to use contribute to edit the
template, so they could edit the menu of the archive (links to each
month/year). And then this in turn would update the menu on all the news
pages. It seems this isn't possible.

I find it hard to believe that there isn't a feature in Contribute that allows
to edit a menu and it'll update all the pages. Am I missing something?

Thanks.

[lawrie]

"tregs80" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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: I'm using dreamweaver to create templates for my customer. They have a
news
: archive section where they want to be able to add news articles.
:
: What I was hoping is that they would be able to use contribute to edit
the
: template, so they could edit the menu of the archive (links to each
: month/year). And then this in turn would update the menu on all the news
: pages. It seems this isn't possible.
:
: I find it hard to believe that there isn't a feature in Contribute that
allows
: to edit a menu and it'll update all the pages. Am I missing something?
:
Hi,
Sorry, you are not missing anything.
Contribute will not allow the user to work with templates :(
The only way I can think of for the user to update menu items as you want,
would be to make them dynamic and update them from a database.
:

[Murray *TMM*]

Or make the menu a server-side include, which would allow the CT editor to
access it (provided you enabled their permissions), no?

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"lawrie" <lawrie@nomailspamoranything.net> wrote in message
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>
> "tregs80" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
> news:cuvr2t$bss$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> : I'm using dreamweaver to create templates for my customer. They have a
> news
> : archive section where they want to be able to add news articles.
> :
> : What I was hoping is that they would be able to use contribute to edit
> the
> : template, so they could edit the menu of the archive (links to each
> : month/year). And then this in turn would update the menu on all the
> news
> : pages. It seems this isn't possible.
> :
> : I find it hard to believe that there isn't a feature in Contribute that
> allows
> : to edit a menu and it'll update all the pages. Am I missing something?
> :
> Hi,
> Sorry, you are not missing anything.
> Contribute will not allow the user to work with templates :(
> The only way I can think of for the user to update menu items as you want,
> would be to make them dynamic and update them from a database.
> :
>
>