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USING DREAMWEAVER

Making pages dynamic

Last updated 3/28/2012

Dreamweaver provides a point-and-click interface that makes applying dynamic content and complex behaviors to

a page as easy as inserting textual and design elements. The following server behaviors are available:

• Define a recordset from an existing database. The recordset you define is then stored in the Bindings panel.

• Display multiple records on a single page. You select either an entire table or individual cells or rows that contain

dynamic content, and specify the number of records to display on each page view.

• Create and insert a dynamic table into a page, and associate the table with a recordset. You can later modify both

the table’s appearance and the repeating region by using the Property inspector and Repeating Region Server

Behavior, respectively.

• Insert a dynamic text object into a page. The text object you insert is an item from a predefined recordset, to

which you can apply any of the data formats.

• Create record navigation and status controls, master/detail pages, and forms for updating information in a

database.

• Display more than one record from a database record.

• Create recordset navigation links that allow users to view the previous or next records from a database record.

• Add a record counter to help users keep track of how many records were returned, and where they are in the

returned result.

You can also extend Dreamweaver server behaviors by writing your own, or installing server behaviors written by

third parties.

5 Test and debug the page.

Before making a dynamic page—or an entire website—available on the web, you should test its functionality. You

should also consider how your application’s functionality might affect people with disabilities.