Get and Put Files
Get Before You Edit
To be sure you are editing the current live content of a page, and not some old copy of the page, each time you edit a page, "Get" it fresh from the server.
- Select a file from your files list; you can select the file in either Remote or Local views
- Click the "Get" button
- "Get" always copies the file from the server to the local folder, overwriting the local version of the file, no matter which view it was selected under
- Click "Yes" when prompted about Dependent files (more about this below)
- You now have a fresh copy of the file to edit
NOTE: Double-clicking on a file on the Remote list copies the file to Local and then opens the Local copy of the file.
Put = Publish (sort of)
After editing a file, you will "Put" it to publish it and make it available on the server. "Sort of" means that it's not truly "live" until there is a link to it from somewhere. However anyone you email the URL to can view the page now.
- Select a file from your files list; you can select the file in either Remote or Local views
Click the "Put" button- "Put" always copies the file from the local folder to the server, overwriting the remote version of the file, no matter which view it was selected under
- You can click "Yes" or "No" on the Dependent files prompt (more about this below)
- The edited file is available in the browser and can be found by users if:
- The page is linked to from another page, OR
- You provide the URL to users, say by email
About
dependent files
- Dependent files include images on your Web page, server-side include files, anything else the browser needs to assemble the page.
- In general, click "Yes" on "Get" and "No" on "Put," but don't forget to "Put" any new images used on the page individually.
Reviewing your work on the Web
- Validate: Always check changes in your browser, looking for broken images and links and any other problems with the page.
- Refresh: The browser shows a snapshot of the page's state when it was last called. Changes won't appear until you click the browser's Refresh/Reload button to refresh the browser's view.
- Caching: Some browsers cache page views and may be slow to update on refresh. You can usually change the browser's preferences to prevent caching on reload.
Check-in/Check-out
- When sites have multiple authors, they risk overwriting each other's changes if they don't get fresh copies of files from the server and coordinate their changes. Check-in/Check-out is a control method to mechanically prevent users overwriting each other's changes.
- To engage Check-in/Check-out, select the radio button in the Remote Info category of the site definitions panel (see Setting Up).
- Checking out a file causes it to be locked on the server, so other authors can't open it. Dreamweaver displays a checkmark next to checked out files.
- If using this method, substitute "Check-out" for "Get" and "Check-in" for "Put" wherever they occur in this training. It's important that you not forget to Check-in your files, or they will remain locked to other authors, and to yourself on other computers, until they are checked back in.
- Dreamweaver typically locks Checked-in files . Right-click selected files and choose "Unlock" or "Undo Read Only" to unlock files for editing.
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