Acatalog page not replacing variables

[Richardpixel]

Working on a site revamp/upgrade and the store homepage (not brochure homepage) is broken.

It appears that for some reason on this page (and this page only), that the variables are not being replaced, which then is just screwing up the HTML completely.

http://www.pixelcreation.co.uk/clien...log/index.html

It's an upgrade from 9.0.2 to 9.0.4 and no other pages across the site seem to be affected.

Any ideas?

[grantglendinnin]

Did you register the design in Actinic through Dreamweaver? There seems to be a rise in new posts about this kind of behaviour.

IIRC the fix is to make a (design) change to the layout that the page uses, then Refresh the site. Seems like some sort of intermittent bug.

[Richardpixel]

Yes the design was registered through Dreamweaver.

Just seems very odd how this can affect a single page.

In the process of doing a Web Site Purge and Refresh as I have also just started getting errors when trying to upload, for no reason.

I'll see what happens after it's done.

[grantglendinnin]

From what I have seen this problem is only affecting sites where the design is integrated through Dreamweaver. My shop homepage was also the only page with the problem (ie. domain.com/acatalog/index.html)....wonder what Actinic support have to say...?

[Duncan Rounding]

Try making a small change in the outer layout (in Actinic not DW) Apply and upload. Then change it back again, Apply and Upload.
See if that fixes it.

[Richardpixel]

Made a change to the outer layout and publishing now.

It's a massive site so takes a while. Will post results soon.

[Richardpixel]

That hasn't worked :-(

The shop homepage is still broken.

Any other suggestions?

[leehack]

There's an html coding error, look top left in IE8.

[Richardpixel]

Not using IE8 but yes, I can see the HTML error. Pretty sure this is not actually be caused by my code as why would it just on that page?

If you look at the source, you will see lots of Actinic variables in their original format i.e. they haven't been replaced by Actinic upon generation.

[leehack]

I'd say the opposite and guess that it is caused by you, possibly deleted a character by mistake, but it's a lottery working it out for sure. The fact it only happens on the home page would make me first check that i have the same template for sections and brochure pages. If i do then i am looking within that template for a condition that only works on that page possibly, that may be bringing in errant code.

It may be a parsing error as you suggest, never seen it myself, i suspect the coding error is causing this to happen though. Only time i've not seen variables getting parsed is within a V9 stylesheet but i think that's fixed in 904.

Have you tried deleting the page from within the actinic folders so it is forced to refresh and does the preview show the same fault?

[Richardpixel]

I'll start going through the code to see if I can find something out of place.

It is using the same template as section and brochure pages. The site homepage (not store) and brochure pages all work fine.

I have not tried deleting the page but I have seen that it changed when I made a change to the outer layout.

I have also tried a Web Site Purge and Refresh.

The preview page in Actinic and when trying 'Preview Page' both appear to be fine.

[Richardpixel]

Just looked at the index.html file within the Actinic folder. Opened that in a browser and it looked like the online page, so I've deleted that and trying a publish again.

Result coming soon...

[Richardpixel]

Sorted! Thanks Lee.

Deleting the html page from the Actinic folder did the trick.

[Richardpixel]

This issue has reappeared. I obviously know how to fix it, but as it's reoccurring it worries me.

I don't want to pass the site over to my client (which is suppose to happen tomorrow) if this issue is going to keep popping up.

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue with 9.0.4?

[Richardpixel]

Actually, think I know what the issue. I normally call my template HTML file something like 'clientname-template.html' and save it in the Actinic folder (as recommended).

Unfortunately in this case, I left it as index.html, so every time a change is made to the outer layout, the index.html file gets regenerated, even if I just deleted it.... aaarghhh!

Not sure if there is a way around this?