DW 8 - problem with templates

Hello all.

In my templates the links to the pages in the underlying code are correct
"page.html"
yet when I make a page from a template the link in that resultant page in the
underlying code
is incorrect "Templates/page.html". So all my links are broken and I can't
correct the code in the resultant page because it is greyed out.

Is this a bug in the new program? maybe I upgraded too soon.
Can someone help,,, please. and thank you.

Elizabeth

In the template file change the "page.html" to "../page.html". This will fix
this issue. Really the template is looking at the page from where it is
located... one directory above the template. Dreamweaver takes this into
account when aplying the template and so believes the page.html file is in the
templates directory.

Yeah - don't try to second-guess the templates and DW's link management.
All links in a template file should either be document relative (to the
template), or root relative. In the case of the former, DW's link
management will handle the link when you save the child page....

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"WebspinnerInc" <che (AT) webspinnerinc (DOT) com> wrote

In the template file change the "page.html" to "../page.html". This will
fix
this issue. Really the template is looking at the page from where it is
located... one directory above the template. Dreamweaver takes this into
account when aplying the template and so believes the page.html file is in
the
templates directory.

thank you both for your help...... one additional question:

is"../page.html document relative or root relative??

elizabeth

It's document relative - root relative links always begin with a slash -

"/whatever/foo.html"

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"BetsyW." <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

thank you both for your help...... one additional question:

is"../page.html document relative or root relative??

elizabeth

document relative ... ie. i am document "../" is "go back up one directory from me." "page.html" is " and you should find page.html"

OK thank you again, maybe that is my problem maybe i have to change a
preference so that the templates are document relative as opposed to root
relative. Is there a way to do this in DW 8 without having to go into ea
template and change
the underlying code?

Elizabeth.

OK thank you again, maybe that is my problem maybe i have to change a
preference so that the templates are document relative as opposed to root
relative. Is there a way to do this in DW 8 without having to go into ea
template and change
the underlying code?

Elizabeth.

You can specify the default relativity in the local site definition. How is
yours set?

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"BetsyW." <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

OK thank you again, maybe that is my problem maybe i have to change a
preference so that the templates are document relative as opposed to root
relative. Is there a way to do this in DW 8 without having to go into ea
template and change
the underlying code?

Elizabeth.

I looked and in my site definitions it says "relative to document"

but most of my templates, when I opened up the site in the new DW8, revealed
links in the "page.html" format....

This is crazy..

elizabeth