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Dreamweaver 2017 won't compile SASS files

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December 2, 2016
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I have upgraded to DW 2017. (Mac OS X)

I have gone to sites > [the site] > CSS preprocessors > general

and I have selected "enable auto compilation on save"

I have gone to sites > [the site] > CSS preprocessors > source and output

and I have selected the source and output folders to be the same.

I cannot get a css file to compile. I have been using terminal and have recently been using Koala but I would like to use Dreamweaver for this rather than another tool.

Phone support sent me a link to Dreamweaver: Setting up SASS and Compiling the Code - Lena Shore As if I hadn't already researched this on Google myself (for many hours). This link deals with Dreamweaver 2013 and uses CodeKit for compilation so the link is unrelated to my question. He was stumped and told me to contact the forums so here I am. Help please?

Thank you,

Scott

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Comus Sola

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Dreamweaver compiled a single SASS file very well for me until I started to include partials.

I didn't have to do anything special in DW to get it working, it just worked out of the box.

However, if I use partials (ie always!), I have to first save the partial, then go and save the top level scss file as well, before it will compile, which is a real tedious time waster.

I have been told that this is a known problem - and a pretty fundamental one imo! I am going to go back to using Scout [link removed by Mod] until this has been sorted out and is working properly.

BenPleysier

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juliancoates.34@gmail.com wrote:
However, if I use partials (ie always!), I have to first save the partial, then go and save the top level scss file as well, before it will compile, which is a real tedious time waster.
I have been told that this is a known problem - and a pretty fundamental one imo! I am going to go back to using Scout [link removed by Mod] until this has been sorted out and is working properly.

Who told you that there is a problem with Sass files in the latest version of Dreamweaver. I have been working with Sass files for a few years, have used Scout before going to a much better product called Prepros. I have now ditched Prepros for Sass in favour of the built-in Dreamweaver Processor.

I don't want to be rude, but please tell the person(s) that told you a fib to go and jump. If you cannot make it work, its something that you are not doing correctly.

There are many more partials not shown that I work with on a daily basis.

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Comus Sola

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I was told that there was a problem with partials on this very forum, by an "Adobe Community Professional", and no one contradicted it, so I assumed it to be true. They said:

"I think this problem was noticed just before 2017 was released, so the team do know about it. I don't know if it was marked as an update for the future or not though."

I have had quite a few problems with DW over the many years I have used it, so I was not surprised to find it had toothing problems with scss.

I can't imagine what - if anything - I am doing incorrectly, I have been using sass/scss for years, initially in terminal then using Compass, then Scout. Never had any problems until I started trying to do scss directly in Dreamweaver.

BenPleysier

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Just tried with the following result

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scotts68145946

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I'm starting to think i need to reinstall. Thoughts?

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Paul-M

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Well that confirms my worst fears, Adobe actually haven't got a clue what they're doing with Dreamweaver. I can't help you with SASS but DMXZone do a free LESS extension that auto-compiles on save. You don't need the latest version DW 2017 to use it either.

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