Non-Dreamweaver templates for Contribute

[Ian Hutchison]

Are there any guidelines anywhere for creating the equivalent of Contribute
editable/non-editable templates for sections of HTML pages which were not
created by Dreamweaver; for example, guidelines on the use of <!--
begineditable--> etc.?

[Murray *ACE*]

Notate your editable regions as shown in the following markup -

<!-- #BeginEditable "whatever" -->
Editable region content goes here
<!-- #EndEditable -->

and you should be OK.

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"Ian Hutchison" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:eme649$3ot$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Are there any guidelines anywhere for creating the equivalent of
> Contribute
> editable/non-editable templates for sections of HTML pages which were not
> created by Dreamweaver; for example, guidelines on the use of <!--
> begineditable--> etc.?
>

[Ian Hutchison]

Thanks for the guidance. However, we had already worked that out. I don't
think that actually does anything if you have not created a .dwt "copy"
template for that page. As far as we can see, you have to tell Conbtribute to
NOT allow changes outside the <! -- begineditable... <! -- enditable pairs by
creating a copy .dwt template for that page. Or is there another way of
blocking changes to everything except between the "editable" statements?

[arfore]

Ian,

The Dreamweaver template system works from the standpoint of a "deny all,
allow some" mentality.

Initially a Dreamweaver template file allows no editing to any sections. When
modifying the template in Dreamweaver or any other text editor, the addition of
the begin/end editable pairs enables the editing of any content existing within
the tag pair.

If you want to create a template for use with Contribute outside of
Dreamweaver just create the file with any editable sections you desire then
change the file extension to .dwt and place it in the "Templates" directory on
your CPS managed webserver. Any files in the "Templates" directory that end
with ".dwt" will be loaded on the next startup of the Contribute client.

By default the Publisher and Writer roles allow access to all templates in the
"Templates" directory via the Contribute client.

Also, make sure that the "whatever" text mentioned by Murray is unique to each
individual editable region.

Please note that the Contribute/Dreamweaver template interaction is *not* a
run-time template system. Dreamweaver templates are design-time templates. If
you have sections of the template that change later then those changes will
need to be applied on a page-by-page basis to each page using a given template.
This functionality is automatically handled within the Macromedia workflow by
using Dreamweaver to download the entire site then having it update all pages
that are based on a given template.

The piece of the code that denotes which template is assigned to a given page
is as follows:

<!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/level2.dwt"
codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->

with an acompanying closing tag of:

<!-- InstanceEnd -->

The "InstanceBegin" tag should follow the opening html tag and the
"InstanceEnd" tag should precede the closing html tag.

The important piece of the "InstanceBegin" tag is the value of the "template"
attribute. This needs to be the path to the specific template file relative to
the webroot on the server.

Hope this helps.

[Ian Hutchison]

Thanks. That's very helpful.