Must be able to allow a site maintainer to edit templatein Contribute

[purefusion]

I dearly hope contribute has the ability to edit templates, because otherwise
I've got a nasty client on my hands. She wants to change sidebar items in the
template and ripple those changes to all the pages similar to how Dreamweaver
does, but she only has contribute.

If contribute cannot, there's got to be some other way to do this without
having access to dreamweaver. Anyone know of a way?

Thanks for any help!

[Laiverd.COM]

Open the file in notepad (assume one knows what one is doing) edit the
template and upload again.

John

[purefusion]

Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific. All pages based on that update
need to be updated as well. Just editing the template file will not update all
those pages that are based on it, is that right? Am I asking too much to be
able to do this?

[d_woods]

Hi,

I accomplished this by creating a separate file html page containing just the
content for the side area. In my case, this was the navigation menu, which was
simply an nested unordered list of links, which are style by CSS. I included
the contents of this file into the template using PHP.

The contribute users can open that page and edit the contents just as they
would any other page, and the new content would immediately show up on all
pages. There were other needs that required some massaging of the content
before rendering, but there doesn't necessarily need to be.

The same thing can be accomplished with any other server-side language, or
Server-Side Includes would work as well, if you have access to that
functionality.

Hope that helps

[purefusion]

Wow, that is actually a great idea!

You're a genious :)

THANK YOU!

[Nancy Flowers]

This also works with Server Side includes. We create a template using includes
for the header, left navigation and footer. Then provide a page for the
Contribute user with links to those pages. This way we don't have to use PHP or
other programming to generate the page. It also makes it easier for the
designers/developers to update. With contribute, if files are checked out by
other users, it can be difficult to update a template. Server Side Includes
allows us to update one file and move it to the server.