site panel on mac DW MX studio won't open

I am presently taking an intermediate Dreamweaver class. the instructor and 90% of the class are PC users and can't answer this: I was working on an exercise and I must have done something wrong. I need to open up the site window to post to the student web server but when I click on the arrow to open up the site window, nothing happens. The function was working one minute and then wouldn't. I keep getting an error message "The selected folder does not contain the current sites home page. The site map cannot be built." I'm not sure how to proceed . . .

Can you go to the Site definition and remove the setting for the homepage, on the Site Map Settings panel?

Also make sure you haven't inadvertently moved your site folder without informing Dreamweaver about it.

I usually just leave it blank because I never use the site map view, and because it causes lots of popup dialogs which get a bit annoying.

Also, I've noticed that sometimes the Site Window will just go blank. You need to click the little rerfesh button to make the files show up again.

Have you detached the site panel from the main group and slid it offscreen
by chance?

The error message you describe is a throw away message. It usually means
that DW cannot determine which page should be the home page and that you
have not told it which by selecting a file and specifying it as the home
page.

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"pattyinyamhill" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I am presently taking an intermediate Dreamweaver class. the instructor
and 90% of the class are PC users and can't answer this: I was working on an

exercise and I must have done something wrong. I need to open up the site
window to post to the student web server but when I click on the arrow to
open up the site window, nothing happens. The function was working one
minute and then wouldn't. I keep getting an error message "The selected
folder does not contain the current sites home page. The site map cannot be
built." I'm not sure how to proceed . . .

In article <bleku8$l71$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com> , "Murray *TMM*"
<forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote:

The error message you describe is a throw away message. It usually means
that DW cannot determine which page should be the home page and that you
have not told it which by selecting a file and specifying it as the home
page.

I never designate a home page in a new site definition and have never seen
this message. Why not?

-- James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com

James:

Could be because you use a standard home page name? Try creating a site
without such a file in it.

I see the message from time to time, but just blow through it.

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"James M. Shook" <james_shook (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote

In article <bleku8$l71$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com> , "Murray *TMM*"
forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote:

The error message you describe is a throw away message. It usually
means
that DW cannot determine which page should be the home page and that you
have not told it which by selecting a file and specifying it as the home
page.

I never designate a home page in a new site definition and have never seen
this message. Why not?

-- James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com

In article <blepmg$o74$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com> , "Murray *TMM*"
<forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote:

Could be because you use a standard home page name?

Yes, I always put "index.html" in the site as soon as I define it.

-- James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com