Pop-Up Menus don't work in templated pages

I have created a template with pop up menus to ease updating when new pages are
added. However, the pages that I have built off of the template show the popup
menus but when clicked on, I get an error message that the page can not be
found when tested in a browser. Regular links work, and other behaviors work,
just not the pop-up menu links. Please help!

Thanks, Erica

You mean when you preview locally and then click on a link? Or do you mean
after you have uploaded the page and then browse to it?

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"Erica@Creative" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I have created a template with pop up menus to ease updating when new pages
are
added. However, the pages that I have built off of the template show the
popup
menus but when clicked on, I get an error message that the page can not be
found when tested in a browser. Regular links work, and other behaviors
work,
just not the pop-up menu links. Please help!

Thanks, Erica

I mean when I look at it locally. We do not want live yet, so I cant see it uploaded yet. Could that be the reason?

When you click away from any page in a preview, you are likely to lose all
links. That's just the nature of the beast....

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"Erica@Creative" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I mean when I look at it locally. We do not want live yet, so I cant see it
uploaded yet. Could that be the reason?

This happened to me a while back... bought Pop Menu Magic from Project VII,
well worth it but bit of a sting at $90. The CSS Anthology can help you create
CSS menus but not too sure if it tells you how to do pop-ups. Good book though
if you are new to CSS.

Ok, well normally, I can click different links and it goes to those pages, just
not links listed under the pop-up menu. So do you think that once it goes live,
it should be ok?

Also, when I test the template in preview the pop-up menu links work. Its just
the pages I built off the template that have the problem. Is there anything to
that?

BTW, thanks for your help!

Thanks, I think I'll look into that!

Ok, well normally, I can click different links and it goes to those pages,
just
not links listed under the pop-up menu. So do you think that once it goes
live,
it should be ok?

This particular pop-up menu is never OK.

Also, when I test the template in preview the pop-up menu links work. Its
just
the pages I built off the template that have the problem. Is there
anything to
that?

This is the very problem with these pop-up menus, and it's why you cannot
apply a pop-up menus to a page that has been saved as a template. The only
way to get the two together is to apply the menu *before* saving the page as
a template. The reason for this problem is simple - the links written by
the pop-up menu are written into embedded javascript code, not into the HTML
on the page. Such links are not managed by DW. So when you specify a link
in a template menu, that link is made relative to the template and when the
child page is saved the link *SHOULD* be managed but it is not.

Look into one of the alternative menus. You don't want, or need this
aggravation.

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"Erica@Creative" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Ok, well normally, I can click different links and it goes to those pages,
just
not links listed under the pop-up menu. So do you think that once it goes
live,
it should be ok?

Also, when I test the template in preview the pop-up menu links work. Its
just
the pages I built off the template that have the problem. Is there
anything to
that?

BTW, thanks for your help!

Thank you!! That definately helps. Its just too bad that I have about 20 pages already set up like this No doubt, I will not set up another site like this again...

That's the part about these pop-up menus that infuriates me. Macromedia has
let us all down by leaving this function in the program since DW4....

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"Erica@Creative" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Thank you!! That definately helps. Its just too bad that I have about 20
pages already set up like this No doubt, I will not set up another site
like this again...