Contribute Publishing Changing Template

NCSAclaggett · NCSAclaggett

I have a series of dreamweaver templates that pages are built from. I then
allow users to edit certain regions of those pages via contribute. When the
page is created, the call to the template is correct, is relative, and looks
something like:

<html lang="en">

(note this is NOT an editable region of the page)

Once the page is published in Contribute, the call to the template changes to
an absolute address and will no longer be affected by template updates. It now
looks something like:

<html lang="en">

The only way to fix this seems to be to re-open the page in Dreamweaver and to
reapply the template. The absolute call that the publishing procedure changes
thigns to is valid and a readable directory, but apparently Dreamweaver won't
allow it.

Any ideas on how to fix this? It creates quite the burden when managing many
users to have to re-open all published pages and reapply the template.

bobolech · bobolech

Have you figured out this problem yet?

We are suffering from the same problem -- our templates are modified by
Contribute whenever a draft is sent for review and then published. When a page
is simply edited and published, we have no problems. But when a draft is sent
for review and then published, the relative path for a template is turned into
an absolute path!

For example, this:


Becomes this:


Regards

NCSAclaggett · NCSAclaggett

Yes, that's the exact same issue.

Nope, I've yet to hear anything from any source that addresses the issue. For
now I've been vigilantly opening every sent and published page in dreamweaver
and reapplying the template. This has proven to be an annoying addition to the
publishing procedure, but it at least keeps things running for now. I'm very
much hoping someone notices this thread and addresses the issue.

If you do come across any solution, please let me know and I'll do the same.

bobolech · bobolech

We just did some more testing of this issue and we noticed a new, more
disturbing aspect of the problem. We noticed that the paths to the templates
were modified when a draft was sent for review and then published. But we also
noticed that the paths to our stylesheets, which use relative paths like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/local_scripts/styles.css" type="text/css"
media="all">
were being converted when published to take this form:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://staging.abc.com/local_scripts/styles.css"
type="text/css" media="all">
where staging.abc.com is the domain name of our staging website, which is an
internal server where we post changes to test them -- the changes are then
automatically copied to the live server throughout the day. A page with a
stylesheet declaration that uses a relative path is fine -- it doesn't matter
what site the stylesheet file resides on -- but when a fully-qualified path to
a stylesheet on an internal server is used and then published to an external
server, the page breaks since it is referencing an internal URL it cannot
access.

The bigger question for us isn't why Contribute is taking liberties with our
template paths, but why it's messing around with the path to our stylesheets.
My understanding was that Contribute didn't mess around with content in the
header. Why should it???

This product is so aggravating.

And we've tested this with both version 3.1 and 4.0, which is the first thing
their tech support will insist we try...

Stay tuned...

NCSAclaggett · NCSAclaggett

Yes, you're in the same boat I am. What you're describing (and the testing
you've done) is the exact path I've walked down without any luck. I'm in
complete agreement with you...I have NO idea why Contribute is altering the non
editable region of the page and taking liberties with the address. Even if it
wasn't breaking things and sabotaging the way the products were supposed to
work together, I don't see why it' would ever need to do it. Apparently my
definition of 'non editable' and theirs is different.

I am really glad you've tested it in 4 and posted this. I haven't yet
upgraded to 4 and am not especially motivated to unless this problem is
resolved.

bobolech · bobolech

Well, we haven't exactly upgraded to Contribute 4 either. We have v4 installed
on one PC so we can test it in instances like this, but we aren't about to
upgrade all our installations until we see some compelling reason to do so, and
so far all Adobe/Macromedia has been able to tout as a reason to upgrade is the
abilitly to edit blogs and vague references to lots of fixed bugs. They have
carefully avoided publishing any lists of "What's Been Fixed in This Release"
or "Remaining Issues with This Release." They've concentrated mostly on
selling to folks who might be tempted by the very, very slight list of new
features (Editing blogs? Give me a break!) or those who can afford to take the
risk of upgrading from one unstable version to another in the hopes that the
new one might be better. Myself, I'd rather deal with a pile of known issues
than step into a new pile...

xarina · xarina

Just letting you know we are having the same problem, and for us it also blocks our ability to set template parameters.

Fred Clown · Fred Clown

My company is having the same issue. It would be great if somebody from Adobe would comment on this issue.

Fred Clown · Fred Clown

Does anybody at Adobe have any ideas on this?

Fred Clown · Fred Clown

Does anybody from Adobe even check this?

L.Kaur · L.Kaur

This issue is fixed in Contribute CS3. Please check the same in Contribute CS3.

~Lakhwinder

ThinkInk · ThinkInk

No they don't check this. Look at the bottom of the page...

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xarina · xarina

[q]Originally posted by: L.Kaur
This issue is fixed in Contribute CS3. Please check the same in Contribute CS3.

~Lakhwinder[/q]
Thanks, Lakhwinder....

What do you mean please by "CS3". I have Contribute 3 (stand-alone, not
publishing). Is this what you mean? (I still have the problem on this version.)

Thanks,
Carina

L.Kaur · L.Kaur

Hi,

There is new release of Contribute( 'Contribute CS3') which is a part of Adobe Creative suite 3 and this bug is fixed in the CS3 release. Hope i am clear.

~Lakhwinder

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