specified Page Name pages aren't being generated

[littlered]

I have a series of products that all have a 'Page Name' specified in the Layout tab - but these pages are now not being generated. If I preview the catalog and try to browse to one of these pages (which are relative, so should work in the preview) I get a 'cannot find page' error.
When I update the site, it's not uploading the new files either - it's using older versions of the pages - although the pages appear correctly within Actinic - it just seems that this information is being written to the specified Page Name files.

Does anyone have any ideas of things I could try to fix this?

many thanks
john

[jont]

Erm ... OK.. reading between the lines you are trying to link through to your own externally created pages? If so you will need to place a copy of these pages into the PreviewHTML folder as although relative paths are being used the generated files are in a different folder.

You will also need to add these pages to the additional files under Actinic so these are uploaded to the webserver.

Hopefully have interpreted what you mean - if not sorry

[jont]

If Actinic is over writing pages you needed to be editing the Act_Templates in the root of the site1 folder as these are what are being used by Actinic when it compiles the HTML templates with the database

[littlered]

thanks for the reply -
I didn't create this site originally, so I don't know if the pages were created externally, but I assumed that if a product was given a page name then Actinic would create that html page, using that name, and would update that file as appropriate on each update - is that not the case?

[jont]

The page name is created from the section ... a section (or sub-section) is a single page on the internet.

So if you create a new section called "Zebbidy" it will create a page called Zebbidy.html

Note you can independantly change the page name (page.html) to the section name once created for better SEO practices etc

[littlered]

- that's what i've got, but to follow your example the contents of the Zebbidy section (which show correctly in the Actinic preview pane) aren't then overwriting the Zebbidy.html file in either the preview or the Updated website

[Duncan Rounding]

Have you tried deleting the problem html files from the PreviewHTML folder then doing an Web|Offline Preview (Crtl-W)? If this works then try a similar procedure on your site or do a Website Purge and Refresh should hopefully resolve the problem.

[jont]

May also be worth purging your browser cache

[littlered]

the incorrect files were in the previewhtml folder, so it wasn't a caching issue - however, deleting the files and then doing the offline preview has worked on the pages I've tested it on, so I'll try the rest and see how it goes - thanks!

[littlered]

(the fact that the pages weren't found in the preview was due to the links being hardcoded to start with "/acatalog/" - but changing the link to the correct relative path gave the incorrect content still)

[littlered]

EEEK! it worked offline, so I deleted the html files on the server but when I update from Actinic, it's not re-uploading any html files at all. Do I need each of the file names as Additional Files?

[Duncan Rounding]

You would only need to add HTML pages to the Additional Files list if they are non Actinic generated pages. I would recommend a database compact and then if need be a Website Purge and Refresh.

[littlered]

just done that - it's still not uploading the html pages...

[jont]

John - what exactly are you trying to do with these hardcoded links? There may be a simpler solution all round.

[littlered]

they form the navigation that appears on the non-Actinic pages and also in the Act_Primary template - but there are additional navigation elements that point to non-Actinic pages as well.