Nested templates in Dreamweaver MX 2004

Hi.

Firstly, apologies if this question has come up before, I have looked through the forums but couldn't find anything to help.

I have recently purchased Dreamweaver MX 2004 and was looking to use nested templates. I am familiar with normal Dreamweaver templates, having used them for a while.

The master template contains three editable and three non-editable regions. I have created a nested template and this updates as expected when the non-editable regions in the master are altered. The problem I have is I want to make one of the editable regions uneditable for all the nested templates. Therefore, any html pages made from the nested template will only have two editable regions.

The thinking behind this is that the three original non-editable regions will be the same across the whole site but this 'new', forth non-editable region will change in each nested template

I would have thought this was possible but whatever I try I cannot lock the region and therefore, any pages created from the nested templates will not automatically update if the region I cannot lock is changed!

If anyone can advise me I would be very grateful as I can't seem to make proper use of the nested templates feature and am left in the position of deciding whether to simply copy the original template several times and then manually carry out any updates to the three non-editable regions or keep the nested templates but have to carry out any changes to this forth region manually on every page!

Thanks, Matt.

hello switcha,

I too have some questions about dw templates and from your text I can see you could help me.

Did I get this right:
when things outside the editable regions change the pages based upon that template change? so whatever I want to change in each page individually I would have to put in an editable region?

what about this locking stuff? do I have tio manually lock something? Or can I just make a template, define editable regions and then start creating pages from that template?

templates actually dont really work that way.

basically the whole thing is locked by the nature of saving it as a template and there are areas that you can open for editing. not non editable regions per se

anyway normally you would not build a template this way - you would make a very general template with lots of open spots and then narrow them down as you nest them. however i see your dilema.

hows your html?

you can always bypass this whole bit by setting up what you want the new one to look like and then take it into notepad and delete the <!-- InstanceBegin/EndEditable --> tags

jsut be sure you close dreamweaver while you do this and dont forget to delete those damn folders that dreamweaver makes...

like the _notes, _baks, _mm, etc. other wise when you reopen it it will note that it has been altered outside of dreamweaver and could cause issues..

i dunno jsut a thought..

good lucky and rock on!!