Templates not updating children

message from Barb S on 20 Jul 2004

Hope someone can help. I have templates created by one of my students that are
not updating the pages based on the templates after they make changes. When
the pages are created, they were created indicating that they should be updated
when the template changes. When the template is changed and saved, dreamweaver
properly goes through the list of files and analyzes them but indicates 0
changed.

This problem seems to be evident on all her templates. I am about ready to
pull my hair out, I can't for the life of me figure out what is causing this.
Any ideas? The templates are in the Templates folder under the root. I tried
to attach the file, but apparently the upload utility won't take a .dwt file.
Thanks in advance

Murray *TMM* replied to Barb S on 20 Jul 2004

Here are five ways to make changes not propagate from Template to child -

1. Rename the Templates folder
2. Move the Templates folder to some other folder level in the site other
than root level
3. Move a template out of the Templates folder.
4. Make changes to an editable region of the template (which will not
propagate)
5. Corrupt the site cache so that the link between template and child page
is broken

The latter problem can be repaired by using SITE | Advanced > Recreate Site
Cache, and the three others can be fixed by just not doing them. Have you
done any of those?

Barb S replied to Murray *TMM* on 20 Jul 2004

I did not realize that changes to editable regions within the template file did
not proprogate, I suspect that is the problem, because I am pretty sure these
were all instances within the editables.

Thanks for the help.

Murray *TMM* replied to Barb S on 20 Jul 2004

Think about it. If you propagated changes to both editable and non-editable
regions, then all the pages on your site would look the same and none could
contain unique information.

This is the prime mantra of Templates. Only changes to non-editable regions
in the Template page will propagate.

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