template base pages: relative paths don't update

Good luck Marney!

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"Marney" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Last post: In my version of MX, there was NO OPTION in site def'n to
> choose
> root or document relativity. No idea why. So I finally upgraded to CS3 and
> it
> is there. Problem solved. Thank you for your help and for the relativity
> link.
> Marney
>

Last post: In my version of MX, there was NO OPTION in site def'n to choose root or document relativity. No idea why. So I finally upgraded to CS3 and it is there. Problem solved. Thank you for your help and for the relativity link. Marney

> don't know why DW suddenly started saving my templates that way when it
> never has before.

You told it to do so by selecting to use ROOT RELATIVE links in the site
definition as I said originally. Edit your site definition and un-enable
that option (it's immediately underneath the Default images folder field on
the Local Info page). Then you can get this extension and revert your
site -

relativity from Jason Delgarno

http://e7x.com/dw/

It has a dialog box and help files and it will change a single page, folder,
or sitewide from one method to the other.

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"Marney" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi again Murray.
>
> Wow, you know how to make a person's cheeks turn pink. Amazing how I've
> gotten
> through 8 years of web design without having to deal with root relativity
> vs
> doc relativity. Anyway, I do understand the diff between the two and had
> some
> idea why the links weren't working just not how to return to doc relative.
>
> I did not, however understand all you explained (very well I might say)
> about
> previewing root relative links because I have never used them, never want
> to
> and don't know why DW suddenly started saving my templates that way when
> it
> never has before.
>
> So, I would be grateful if you could just tell me, please, how to get DW
> to
> save my templates as doc relative again rather than root relative. As
> previously mentioned, I see no option in the site definition and, as far
> as I
> know, haven't changed any settings. I do want to have to hand code it.
>
> Thanks again. M.
>
>

Hi again Murray.

Wow, you know how to make a person's cheeks turn pink. Amazing how I've gotten through 8 years of web design without having to deal with root relativity vs doc relativity. Anyway, I do understand the diff between the two and had some idea why the links weren't working just not how to return to doc relative.

I did not, however understand all you explained (very well I might say) about previewing root relative links because I have never used them, never want to and don't know why DW suddenly started saving my templates that way when it never has before.

So, I would be grateful if you could just tell me, please, how to get DW to save my templates as doc relative again rather than root relative. As previously mentioned, I see no option in the site definition and, as far as I know, haven't changed any settings. I do want to have to hand code it.

Thanks again. M.

> In template: /default.htm

Root relative links don't, and shouldn't, change. Looks to me like you are
getting just what you should be. And, you should never click away from a
page using a root relative link - again, you are getting what you should be.

> All my other websites have the link in the template written:
> ../default.htm

That is a document relative link. It needs to be managed for each child
page document as it is saved, since the path is relative to the location of
that document.

> I don't know how it got changed

In the site definition, there is an option to make links root/document
relative. You have enabled the root relative one.

> Even if it stays site relative though, the link should change
> on the new page to default.htm.

No. It shouldn't change from a root relative to a document relative link
(which is what you have here).

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"Marney" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Something mysterious has happened. In newly created template-based pages,
> the
> link and image paths are not updating. Eg. In template: /default.htm, on
> new
> saved page, the homepage link still reads /default.htm. When I preview in
> browser, the new page looks fine, so the images are intact even though the
> path
> didn't change. But if I click on a link to another page, it comes up with
> no
> images. Click one of the imageless links and it goes to "page not found".
> This
> has never happened to me before.
>
> All my other websites have the link in the template written:
> ../default.htm
> and on the template based page: default.htm I take it one is site
> relative and
> one is document relative. I don't know how it got changed and don't know
> how to
> change it back. Even if it stays site relative though, the link should
> change
> on the new page to default.htm. And it won't!!!
>
> Can someone help please?
>
>
>
>