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USING DREAMWEAVER
Creating and managing templates
Last updated 3/28/2012
Change a template description
The template description appears in the New Document dialog box when you’re creating a page from an existing
template.
1 Select Modify > Templates > Description.
2 In the Template Description dialog box, edit the description and click OK.
More Help topics
“Creating a Dreamweaver template” on page 374
Manually update documents based on templates
When you make a change to a template, Dreamweaver prompts you to update the documents based on the template,
but you can manually update the current document or the entire site if necessary. Manually updating template-based
documents is the same as reapplying the template.
Apply template changes to the current template-based document
1 Open the document in the Document window.
2 Select Modify > Templates > Update Current Page.
Dreamweaver updates the document with any template changes.
Update the entire site or all documents that use a specified template
You can update all the pages in the site, or only update pages for a specific template.
1 Select Modify > Templates > Update Pages.
2 In the Look In menu, do one of the following:
• To update all the files in the selected site to their corresponding templates, select Entire Site, then select the site
name from the adjacent pop-up
menu.
• To update files for a specific template, select Files That Use, then select the template name from the adjacent pop-up
menu.
3 Make sure Templates is selected in the Update option.
4 If you don’t want to see a log of the files Dreamweaver updates, deselect the Show Log option; otherwise, leave that
option selected.
5 Click Start to update the files as indicated. If you selected the Show Log option, Dreamweaver provides information
about the files it attempts to update, including information on whether they were updated successfully.
6 Click Close.
Update templates in a Contribute site
Contribute users can’t make changes to a Dreamweaver template. You can, however, use Dreamweaver to change a
template for a Contribute site
Keep these factors in mind when updating templates in a Contribute site:
• Contribute retrieves new and changed templates from the site only when Contribute starts up and when a
Contribute user changes their connection information. If you make changes to a template while a Contribute user
is editing a file based on that template, the user won’t see the changes to the template until they restart Contribute.