dreamweaver 2017 & Saba LMS

[TheWalrus109]

I have been using Dreamweaver to create courses for upload to Saba LMS.  After updating DW to 2017, I quickly discovered that all I had to do was open a site that was created in 2015 DW & it no longer worked correctly with Saba.  What is going on & how can I fix this?  I have no idea what Dreamweaver is changing & where to created this issue.  I tried many previously built courses as tests & once viewed in 2017 DW they were forever corrupted.

Any ideas?

[Nancy OShea]

I'm sure we have no idea either.  You keep redundant backups of all your files, right?  My site folders are backed up nightly so if a corruption occurs (power surge/outage, computer shutting down prematurely, etc..), I can always get clean versions to revert back to.

Once your code is restored, the first thing you might want to check for is errors.

Code Validation Tools

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CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

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HTML5 - https://validator.w3.org/nu/

JavaScript - http://www.jslint.com/

PHP -  http://phpcodechecker.com/

Nancy O.

[Jon Fritz · Accepted solution]

DW shouldn't affect anything unless you're opening and saving the files.

Even the known javascript html entity rewrite bug, the change isn't permanent unless the file is saved after reopening.

Dreamweaver Help | Known issues | Dreamweaver CC 2017

Perhaps a little more info about your workflow, the steps you're taking and what's actually happening (and where it's happening) may help someone work out a solution for you.

Personally, because of that rewrite bug, I have moved back to 2015: How to Find and Install Previous Version of Adobe Apps in CC 2015 | Adobe Customer Care Team

[TheWalrus109]

I have many "courses" so it is NOT a corrupt file in my sources.  I have done tests & it is corrupted somehow when I open the "site" in DW.  I can see the result just by locally previewing the index.html.  Once opened in DW - it does not work correctly - even without saving.

I noticed that the LMS (SABA) . will show an error that includes "Dreamweaver" on occasion.  I know this sounds strange, but I have tested & compared many, many times.

I had to revert to DW2015

[TheWalrus109]

Jon -

Thank you.  I'm sure the "known bug":

• HTML entities in JavaScript and JSON files are overwritten with symbols on file reopen.

is the problem.  I'll stick with 2015 for now.

THANX!!!