I have a dreamweaver template which I have created from file-new-html page. It has the extension .dwt. But when I created it I had selected the basic-html page.
There are many .htm pages that depends on this template.
Now I need to turn all these pages into asp pages. I mean I need to make these pages to have the basic asp code that Dreamweaver adds to every new page and of course to be saved as .asp file.
Can I do it using my existing template?

If yes, how?
If no, What can I do to save my work and prevent creating them all from scratch.

If you take a look at an ASP page, the only thing that is really different in the header is the language tag.

<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>

You could have also used VB Script.

You could add that tag directly to the template. Just start a new asp page, and copy and paste that tag to the template.

Past that, all you need to do is to make give the newly created page the file extension of asp.

Let me know if that helps.

Charles E. Brown
Author - Beginning Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks MX - Zero to Hero
Contributor - Macromedia Studio MX Bible

Please explain me what do you mean.
I really try to understand but I cannot do it.

How can we make this specific .dwt file to be asp file? I take a look at the header of it's code and it has not any difference from a newly created asp page.
However, when I need to make a server side include -which is the reason I want to convert everything in asp-, I go to the menu 'Insert' and Dreamweaver does not display the 'Insert Application Object' choise. It displays other things that concerns the html-only pages.

So, how can keep this specific .dwt template, gain the capability to have all the asp's choises, and secondly, batch convert every file that depends on this template to a complete .asp file?


Thanks in advance

I think that once you save the file to .asp it adds the asp-based things to the menus.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, I don't use ASP much.

HTH,

Snib

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I am assuming you created editable regions in the template. I am also assuming you are using ASP technology to create dynamic pages with a database. You need to put the Language declaration tag into the header of the template.

You then start a new page by selecting File > New > and in the dynamic category select ASP with whichever language you are using. Once the page is created, attach the template and save the new page with the asp file extension.

Then create the database connections, recordsets, etc. and drop them into the editable region with any text you need to put in.

Charles

Charles E. Brown
Author - Beginning Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks MX - Zero to Hero
Contributor - Macromedia Studio MX Bible

Snib:

You are quite correct. From an actual operational standpoint, the only that really counts is that asp file extension. That tells the server who to hand it off too.

You would not save the template as an asp page; you would save the file you create with the template as the asp page. However, if the template is already created, you just need to add that language tag to the top of the code.

Charles

Charles E. Brown
Author - Beginning Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks MX - Zero to Hero
Contributor - Macromedia Studio MX Bible

You said: "you just need to add that language tag to the top of the code."
But, it is already there. I even deleted this, and add it again, copied from a new blank asp page.
Once again Dreamweaver do not let me have asp function in this page, like inserting a server side include.

Can you please be more specific ?

Thanks in advance

karib:

Did you save the file with a .asp extension like we have been talking about?

HTH,

Snib

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Please Charles and Snib, forgive me if I misunderstood something.

So, which file to rename?
An instance of template?
But then this file will not be a template. Even more, it will not have my regions.
Even worst (i don't even think about) it will not be the main template to which all my pages are attached.

So, what can I do?

Excuse me for not elaborating. I did not mean rename, I meant Save As. About the template thing, why not just do this to create a new page: open the template, use Save As to create a new .asp file, then edit it.

Let me know if this is what you are looking for, or if I don't have your problem straight in my head.

Snib

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