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markeeeee
Inspiring
November 16, 2019
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Show open documents vertically rather than in tabs or seperate windows

  • November 16, 2019
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I can't find a way to get Dreamweaver to show my open documents (pages) vertically (in a side bar). The only choice seems to be in tabs (and then I can't see all my open documents without scrolling right) or in seperate windows (which is very messy).

 

Brackets and Sublime list document vertically - making it very easy to see all the open docs / pages.

 

Thank you

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

Your local site folder contains your documents sorted vertically.   I'm afraid the open document tabs cannot be re-aligned. 

 

 

 

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Nancy OShea
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
November 17, 2019

DW is designed to be used with at least one local site folder.  If you skip this step, it's on you because you're not dealing with an ordinary text editor here.  You're working with a web site management tool.

 

My screenshot below illustrates some of the features available in the Files Panel. The last modified date and time stamp tells me when the file was last saved.   Right-click on the site folder (Site - MyTestSite) to bring up more options.

 

It goes without saying, you should use Ctrl + S (save) often during editing.  When you need to back out of something, Ctrl + Z (undo) has a good history to draw from.  In Preferences, you can choose to allow undo history to traverse through multiple files or limit it to just the open document.  Your choice.

 

I rarely have more than 2 or 3 files open at one time.  There is no advantage whatsoever in having all site files opened at once.  In fact, it could pose caching & memory problems if you do, so I don't recommend working that way in DW.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
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markeeeeeAuthor
Inspiring
November 17, 2019

I rarely have more than 2 or 3 files open at one time. There is no advantage whatsoever in having all site files opened at once. In fact, it could pose caching & memory problems if you do, so I don't recommend working that way in DW.

 

Thats interesting. I often have all the pages in a website open so that I can make find/changes to all the files. And not being able to see all my files probably means I'll use Sublime where I can.

Nancy OShea
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
November 17, 2019

"I often have all the pages in a website open so that I can make find/changes to all the files. "

 

 In DW you don't need to do that.  If you define a local  site folder like you're supposed to, you can perform Find & Replace on the entire local site without opening a single file.   Keyboard shortcut Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + F.  

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
B i r n o u
B i r n o u
Community Expert
November 17, 2019

Hello Markeeeee,

 

I use ST and DW daily, but I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, could you make screenshots of what ST can do and not DW?
I'm sure it's a language issue and I can't grasp what you're expressing. That's why a little sketch would seem more explicit to me
thank you

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markeeeeeAuthor
Inspiring
November 17, 2019

The website I'm currently working on has 31 pages and one CSS file. So there are 32 tabs:

 

 

I can't see all my pages in one go. And to navigate to the CSS file (I intend to hide the related files) I have to click the two right arrows, to get the drop down, to find it. This is a deal breaker. In BBEdit all my pages are displayed in a side bar. I can see them all, navigate quickly, see which ones have been edited and not saved. It's really easy:

 

B i r n o u
B i r n o u
Community Expert
November 17, 2019

in DW you have what is called the file panel, where you can see all your pages listed, as you screen shot on bbedit.

 

concerning the css file, as Nancy told you you can use related files and filtering to only display the CSS file

 

that should help you to get a more appropriate workflow. or did I missed your point ?

Nancy OShea
Nancy OSheaCorrect answer
Community Expert
November 16, 2019

Your local site folder contains your documents sorted vertically.   I'm afraid the open document tabs cannot be re-aligned. 

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
Nancy OShea
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
November 16, 2019

How many source documents are opened? 

To cut down on excess clutter, you can disable related files (CSS, JavaScript, Includes) from View menu > Related Files Options.  See screenshot.

 

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
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markeeeeeAuthor
Inspiring
November 17, 2019

Thanks. I can turn off .css related files, but not my .svg files and visa versa! How do I turn off all related files? Clicking 'Display External Files' makes no difference.

 

If I turn off .css related files, it only works for one tab! All the other tabs continue to display all this clutter

B i r n o u
B i r n o u
Community Expert
November 17, 2019

to turn off all related files, for all documents, you need to use the preferences settings

you can find it by going on

Edit > Preferences > Genereal > unchek related file, or set the drop down menu to a more appropriate context for you

 

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