Catalog Warning on site upload

[julianj]

Hi

I have made some templates in Dreamweaver MX, and am using them for primary, checkout etc templates.

When uploading I get the error message - see attatched also:

"Catalog
Warning: The HTML templates specify source files (with "SRC=" commands) that reside in directories other than the acatalog directory on the web site. Actinic Ecommerce can not handle these files and the,’ are being omitted from the list of files to upload.

No source files in the templates should have a path. Store them in the site specific directory locally, and they will be uploaded to the Actinic Ecommerce web directory."

As the templates need reference to files in the web site and not in the acatalog directory, (I'm using css's to drive site design, and will be looking after the site, but the shop will be at another location) is there any way of supressing this error message when uploading?

This is more for the client, as they will be adding product etc and doing the acatalog uploads.

Many thanks

Julian

[NormanRouxel]

Using fully formed URLS for these files (e.g. "http://mysite.com/mydir/myfile.whatever") should do it.

Norman

[ditch]

Try this:

Design | Options | Miscellaneous

Generation Options -> Supress Generation Warnings

should do the trick

Regards

Richard

[chrisbrown]

I wouldn't suppress the warnings. That is a sledgehammer solution. It is far better to fix the problem properly.

The warnings are just too useful when it comes to debugging problems in general.

[cdicken]

My rule of thumb is:

1) Any images you use in your templates should be in your site folder (e.g. Site1) and NOT in any sub-folders.

2) Any links to pages that are not in your acatalog folder should be full URLs rather than paths like '../../index.html'.

3) Any links to pages in your 'acatalog' folder should be of the form:

http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?SECTIONID=Page%5fFilename%2ehtml&NOLOGIN=1

Brochure fragments can create these links for you.

[Kris]

Hi cdicken,

What do you mean when you say Brochure Fragments can create these links for you?

I am getting the same error, and I understand why I am getting these (as we had the same with our first draft template, and are in the process of fixing them for the final), but I'd like to be able to assign these type of links to the links on our homepage template (custom design) as a means of 'doing it properly'.

Thanks

[cdicken]

Create a temporary brochure fragment within Actinic. If you don't have any pages then right click on the green 'Online Catalogue' icon and select 'New Page'. Give it a title of anything, select a layout of 'Text Only' and in the 'Text' field, enter [LINK]. Then use the fields at the bottom of the window to select a section to link to.

Upload the store, and then copy the shortcut of the online to the clipboard. This will give you a link to a section in the correct format.

[pinbrook]

In my experience the SRC message is very haphazard.

I had it come and go on one site for absolutely no reason whatsoever!! It my case it had nothing to do with location of files.

I never found out what was causing it. Its gone at the mo!!

[garyhay]

How we seem to overcome this.

When you define your site in Dreamweaver define it in the Site folder.