Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER
Building Spry pages visually
Last updated 3/28/2012
4 Choose your Spry data set from the menu.
5 If you want to create or change the region defined for an object, select the object and choose one of the following:
Wrap Selection Puts a new region around an object.
Replace Selection Replaces an existing region for an object.
6 When you click OK, Dreamweaver puts a region placeholder into your page with the text “Content for Spry Region
Goes Here.” You can replace this placeholder text with a Spry data object such as a table or repeat list, or with
dynamic data from the Bindings panel (Window
> Bindings).
The Bindings panel displays the available data from the data set.
Note: In the Bindings panel, there are some built-in Spry elements, ds_RowID, ds_CurrentRowID, and ds_RowCount,
also listed. Spry uses these to define the row a user clicked in when determining how to update dynamic detail regions.
7 To replace the placeholder text with a Spry data object (for example, a Spry Table), click the appropriate Spry data
object button in the Spry category of the Insert panel.
8 To replace the placeholder text with dynamic data, use one of the following methods:
• Drag one or more elements from the Bindings panel on top of the selected text.
• In Code view, type the code for one or more elements directly. Use this format: {dataset-name::element-name},
as in
{ds1::category}. or {dsProducts::desc}. If you are only using one data set in your file, or if you are using
data elements from the same data set that you defined for the region, you can omit the data set name and simply
write
{category} or {desc}.
Regardless of which method you use to define the contents of your region, the following lines are added to your HTML code:
<div spry:region="ds1">{name}{category}</div>
<div spry:region="ds2">{ds1::name}{ds1::descheader}</div>
Create a Spry repeat region
You can add repeat regions to display your data. A repeat region is a simple data structure that you can format as
needed to present your data. For example, you can use a repeat region to display a set of photograph thumbnails one
after another within a page layout object such as an AP
div element.
1 Select Insert > Spry > Spry Repeat.
You can also click the Spry Repeat button in the Spry category in the Insert panel.
2 For the object container, select the <div> or <span> option depending on the type of tag you want. The default is
to use a <div> container.
3 Select the Repeat (default) or Repeat Children option.