Mutliple sites under one/CSS Issues

[KSA_UH]

We are a business school in a large university and have implemented Contribute
for our users. Our website is structured on folders and subfolders. Now, we
have users who need to edit a certain part of the site...so we have defined a
new site for all of them. The reason for this is that we don't want to give
access them access to the site at the root level, so we have only granted
access on the subfolders. (The reason for this is several people mapped to the
web server and screwed files up). We could setup the connection to their
speciifc home page under one site, but Contribute won't let us unless we give
them access to the root.

The problem we are having is that the CSS styles associateed with the folders
aren't showing up in edit mode. They are currently on the same level as the
folders....
Root
\folder
CSS

We are giving them access to the folder...but contribute isn't going above it
to get the CSS. We are having to copy the CSS into each folders...which defeats
the purpose of a universal CSS.

Is there another way to do this and are we missing something completely?
Thanks for any help!

[LDudd]

we have that problem we have a share to the root of the website, but the user
also needs access to the drive the website is on.

have you tried the css being in the same location as the file?

There was a problem with CT2 I know of where the CSS was not read in edit mode.

The way I fixed this was to create an asp page of the styles and then virtual
include this to the top of the pages.

Worked a treat.

Luke

[KSA_UH]

>>have you tried the css being in the same location as the file?

We will them have to update the CSS in each and every site, instead of
universally. Each site is using styles from one sheet that is on the root
level. If we put the CSS in the subfolders, then we will have to update each
and every CSS, which defeats the purpose of a CSS.

[LDudd]

I know it does, I was wondering if you had tested it.

Are your users publishing directly to the live site?

we have a staging server so I think it may be easier for us as anything we
want to send live gets the virtual include (which contains the css styles)
removed and the global css is applied.

[KSA_UH]

We don't have a staging server but we have a beta server that we use instead of
the live site. We make all of the updates on the beta site, and then we run a
script to copy all the changed files over to the live server. We just apply the
CSS in the template, and then apply the template to the pages.

[LDudd]

right so you do change the template before sending something live.

css is just another way of including <style> in the page.

for testing purposes hardcode the styles into a page and then edit the page.

[harrybailey]

Do we have a solution to this yet? I am having the same problem.

I don't want to have the css in the individual folders as that means updating
it for each of the locations. Can we link to one file in one location for all
users? How?

[harrybailey]

Please note a change to the above post.

You do not need to remove the css position from the styles menu under file positioning.

[javabean13]

I don't know if this will help, but this is how I handled it:

When I created the roles for users, there is a setting for the css styles.

If you go to 'administer site' then edit the role you created for users, then
in the role settings go to the 'fonts and styles' section.

Go to 'include css styles in the menu'
Then you can choose to show all css styles (if you have more than one)
Or, you can select the location of the css file. I used this option and
pointed it to the folder where the css file is - which is a folder the users
cannot access - so this allows them to have the css style for editing without
root access or access to the css folder.

I hope that helps!

[KSA_UH]

This doesn't work because the folder the CSS is in is above the root folder of the users respective websites. They are editing specific parts of a website....definied as sites.