export and import the design

[cdicken]

This thread has gotten rather confusing because there are actually four different issues in play here:

1. There is something wrong with Compendia's snapshots that I have never seen before.
2. Partial site design snapshots have a known bug
3. Snapshots created from sites where the design comes from a design registered in Dreamweaver appear to completely fail
4. There is apparently a new issue in 8.0.4 (unless I am doing something weird) that leaves custom stylesheets out of a snapshot.

I'll attempt to deal with each of these in turn:
There is something wrong with Compendia's snapshots that I have never seen before.

Snapshots should always always always bring across all products and sections, and all business settings, including shipping info. The fact that your site didn't get the business settings or shipping information is really strange - and needs to be investigated by the support team - you can register an email support query at http://www.actinic.co.uk/support/register.htm

Partial site design snapshots have a known bug

This is the one the Jo is referring to when she says

have you tried importing the snapshot twice...its a known "feature" that has been around since beta

This purely applies to the 'Design | Deploy Partial Site Design' snapshots. You need to import them twice in order for any layout selectors included in the mini-snapshot to be imported. This is fixed in 8.5.0.

Snapshots created from sites where the design comes from a design registered in Dreamweaver appear to completely fail

I have put a solution this in http://community.actinic.com/showthr...719#post145719 please restrict any Dreamweaver-related snapshot discussions to that thread, otherwise this thread is going to be even more confusing than it already is.

There is apparently a new issue in 8.0.4 (unless I am doing something weird) that leaves custom stylesheets out of a snapshot.

I just created a snapshot this morning in my 8.0.4 with a site that has a custom stylesheet included with a <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> tag. The stylesheet was apparently left out of the snapshot. I will report this to the Development team ASAP, but I would like anyone who also is experiencing this issue to post here, just to confirm whether it's something odd with my designs or not.

There is a very simple workaround though - just include any custom stylesheets in the 'Design | Additional Files' list.

[jont]

a custom stylesheet included with a <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> tag. The stylesheet was apparently left out of the snapshot. I will report this to the Development team ASAP, but I would like anyone who also is experiencing this issue to post here, just to confirm whether it's something odd with my designs or not.

This is how I have added my custom stylesheet. I removed the ref to the actinic.css and simply pointed to my own. I prefer to link as it makes life easier to debug and edit code to the fly in Firefox - @importing kills this ability.

Upon importing the snapshot the actinic.css was set back to default (I had deleted everything from it)

[eighteentee]

I can confirm that adding the stylesheet as an 'additional file' in Actinic does not work with 8.04 - I have tried it four times now with four sites.

[cdicken]

I can confirm that adding the stylesheet as an 'additional file' in Actinic does not work with 8.04 - I have tried it four times now with four sites.

That's odd Phill - it worked perfectly on mine - but then, I might be doing the design in a different way from you.

The 'Additional Files' thing only works in designs that are not registered with Dreamweaver. If you want a workaround for this in sites that are based on a design registered with Dreamweaver, try the solution here: http://community.actinic.com/showthr...719#post145719

Upon importing the snapshot the actinic.css was set back to default (I had deleted everything from it)

Jont - did the import make your design start looking at the 'actinic.css' file again, or is it just that the 'Actinic Stylesheet' layout was now full of code again - whereas in the original site you had deleted everything?

If it is the latter I'm thinking it might be that Actinic doesn't replace db fields with empty fields when it brings in the snapshot. I'm just guessing though. Try replacing the content of the layout with a comment, rather than leaving it blank.