Dreamweaver MX

You can edit .tpl files in wysiwyg mode by changing the following setting:

Open the following xml document in an editor: Macromedia/Dreamweaver MX/Configuration/DocumentTypes/MMDocumentTypes.xml
In the tag "documenttype id="HTML"... "(or php) add .tpl as an extension in winfileextension/macfilextension..
Open any .tpl file in Dreamweaver and you can edit them in the wysiwyg mode...

The style sheet links and other links that contain code don't work of course... Somebody else?

There is a work-around for style sheets: In DW MX, you can select one or "design time style sheets". Those will be used, while you are in wysiwyg-mode. Works like this: Open the template, that you want to edit (ie. pagelayout for a section), display the stylesheet window, use the menu in the top-right corner of the stylesheet window and select the CSS's you want. See the source code of the .tpl to check, which css are needed (probably "core.css" and one for your section). This helps a bit. See Macromedia's site for details.

You can edit .log and .append files in code-view (w/o being prompted for an external editor) by:

Same as Step 1 above
In the tag "documenttype id="Text"... add "log,append" as extensions in winfileextension/macfilextension.
Run Dreamweaver. Go to Edit >> Preferences
Choose the File Types/Editors category the then click the left-hand plus button to add an extension
Type "log, append" then click "Ok"

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Had to change another file

LaQuisha Redfern

Monday 11 July 2005 11:09:59 pm

I had to do two extra things to get this to work.

#1. I had to edit:

C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX\Configuration\Extensions.txt

This is a text file, I added TPL in these two lines:

HTM,HTML,TPL,SHTM,SHTML,HTA,HTC,STM,SSI,JS,AS,XML,XSL,XSD,DTD,XSLT,LBI,DWT,ASP,ASPX,ASCX,ASMX,CONFIG,CS,CSS,CFM,CFML,CFC,TLD,TXT,PHP,PHP3,PHP4,LASSO,JSP,VB,VTM,VTML,INC,JAVA,EDML,WML:All Documents
HTM,HTML,TPL,HTA,HTC:HTML Documents

#2. I had to restart Dreamweaver for the changes to take effect.

Opening .tpl template files from within Dreamweaver MX

Joakim Stai

Wednesday 18 February 2004 5:37:14 pm

Hint: To automatically open your .tpl files in DW's editor when you click a template file in the docked File list, do the same as for .log and .append files (as stated above), and add .tpl to Open in Code View.

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