Editing hiddenlayers

[Ken McMahon]

I've seen this referred to in an earlier post, but it doesn't really answer my
question, which is this. Is it possible to edit text on a hidden layer in
Contribute 3?

I'm a bit of a newbie with Contribute. I bought it about a year ago so a
client could update news pages on their site, but it never happened. Now I've
found a new use for it. I'm developing a tourism website and I want to add
alternate language versions - Currently it's in English and I plan to add
french to begin with. The site -

[url]http://www.lookaroundcornwall.com[/url] - has been designed using DWMX. I want to
add the french language translations as a hidden CSS layer and make the
relevant language layer visible using Javascript (don't ask me how!) when a
button is selected by the viewer.

I want the translator to be able to add the french language translation to the
(hidden) layer but, as far as I can see, it's not possible to view and/or
activate layers in the contribute browser.
If anyone has done anything like this before and can shed some light, I'd
really appreciate it.

[Avinash Rao]

> I've seen this referred to in an earlier post, but it doesn't really

> answer my question, which is this. Is it possible to edit text on a
> hidden layer in Contribute 3?
>
> I'm a bit of a newbie with Contribute. I bought it about a year ago
> so a client could update news pages on their site, but it never
> happened. Now I've found a new use for it. I'm developing a tourism
> website and I want to add alternate language versions - Currently it's
> in English and I plan to add french to begin with. The site -
>
> [url]http://www.lookaroundcornwall.com[/url] - has been designed using DWMX. I
> want to add the french language translations as a hidden CSS layer and
> make the relevant language layer visible using Javascript (don't ask
> me how!) when a button is selected by the viewer.
>
> I want the translator to be able to add the french language
> translation to the
> (hidden) layer but, as far as I can see, it's not possible to view
> and/or
> activate layers in the contribute browser.
> If anyone has done anything like this before and can shed some light,
> I'd
> really appreciate it.

Hi,

You can use Dreamweaver to create your pages. Try loading the page in Contribute.

Contribute supports Layers. But you cannot edit the jscript inside the page
( You will have to switch back to DW to do the same )

p.s: Not sure on your idea of french/English stuff though :)
-Avinash

[Ken McMahon]

Thanks Avinash. I have designed the site in Dreamweaver. When I load the page
in Contribute both text layers are visible, but then I click to edit the hidden
layer it disappears!. Ideally, what I need is some way to manage layer
visibility in Contribute, or at least a means to access the hidden layer to
edit it.

Ken