Relative path to outer layout

[jont]

Having resolved a snaphot issue by using a relative path to the outer_layout.html in the site1 folder this no longer updates the file when any modifications are made inside Actinic. Adding the absolute path back into the location forces the change to the template in DW when clicking on the "Edit in DW" button.

[pinbrook]

I'll pretend to have understood that...

what the general thoughts re 8.5?

having just had 3 nightmare days where 8.5 trashed all my sites, refused to upgrade any, and then refused to uninstall/reinstall without recourse to the registry, I'm abit reluctant to throw myself to the sacrificial fire again.

I've restored a pc back to 8.04 where my livesites reside, but am now wondering whether to use 8.5 on my laptop and start again with 2 sites currently in developement

[Darren B]

Hi Jo

I have had no problems, yet i use very little customisation, all sites work well for me and the latest one i moved over to 8.5 went without any problems, stuck my custom shopping cart patch in without any problems.

I do have a V7 site that is stuck and i can not get it into V8.04 or V8.5, when i try it crashes the system and i have to launch actinic from the dos window/command line to a site that works. NOTE TO SELF ring support on monday.

I see most people have problems with heavely customised layouts, not scripts so would it be better to get the site into V8.5 then do the customisation there?

Just my thoughts
Darren

[pinbrook]

There seems to be a host of posts re snapshots and JS today and yesterday. Snapshots are crucial to releasing.

I think I'm going to back off and wait for 8.5.1

[Darren B]

I think I'm going to back off and wait for 8.5.1

Probably bring a few more bugs

[jont]

The 8.5beta was fine with the paths and the snapshots but the full release seems have added something back into the mix again with the outer layouts and the snapshots.

Alas all the sites I have done are modified layouts. Thankfully a site I handed over at the beginning of the week was to a client with MultiSite so they were able to license a new site with the exact same name I used and installed the snapshot without issue .... but not everyone will have that luxury for the workaround.

[pinbrook]

My small brain is overflowing with workarounds... I feel I am sinking

[leehack]

I've found it quite a good process, but i tread carefully as ever just waiting one day for the proverbial to hit the fan. I dread importing and exporting snapshots and tend to watch with my eyes half closed. Of late i have been having annoying problems rather than show stoppers, so personally i think it's moving in the right direction.

I was in London on Thursday to set a site up, i took a laptop with the shop installed on it, a CD, a flashdrive and ftp'ed to secure space online. There was no way i was doing that trip again. I even included the 8.5 download with each of the above methods, just in case Actinic site was down and i couldn't get it.

I got there and installed both of the burnt CD and it was up within ten minutes. Only minor problem is the sitemap that seems to fail on one upload and then work perfectly on the next.

Install it on a separate independent machine Jo and leave the 8.04's doing their stuff until you are happy. If you have amended quite a bit, i would recommend adding the new features to the library (while you are upgrading) but not installing them, ESPECIALLY if you have customised the stylesheet heavily. In the library i now have the new stylesheet plus my existing amended one. The compare facility on these 2 files is excellent, allowing you to work in your own time updating anything.

I would give the upgrade process 9/10

[jont]

tend to watch with my eyes half closed

One for the AUG I think

[Darren B]

tend to watch with my eyes half closed

I find it works better if you put you hand over your face and spread your fingers slghtly

[leehack]

Are you insinuating that V8 is like a horror movie?

[Darren B]

nightmare on elm street

[wjcampbe]

I have one site that was easier to do in 8.5 than in 8.0.4.

The new variables IsStoreFrontPage and IsBrochureFrontPage are an improvement on the old combined IsFrontPage.

I still have problems when I try to export files from 8.0.4 and import same file into 8.5, but snapshots seem to be working ok.

[los_design]

Glad to see I am not going barmy then.

Each time we create a site, upload and view all is fine. We then send the snapshot over to our client and the blimming additional files go all pete tong!

We have added them to the site folder, referenced to them with relative paths, you name it....but every import the same thing happens...

MANUAL INTERVENTION IS NEEDED BLAH BLAH...I will give it manual intervention in a minute

[Bruce]

Thats referencing to files/folder that are outside the Site1 folder. Though it complained, you will find a folder called 'NOT CATALOG' in the site folder to which the snapshot was imported. Here you will find all the folders/files etc, just get them to copy them to the correct places on their systems and you should be all fine.

Kind regards,