Outer Layout Upload Selector

[los_design]

Be nice to have a function that can split the 'mind-set' of Actinic to allow you to upload 1 FILE without having to check & upload the whole site (I know when you refresh you can say ignore unchanged blah blah but it still checks every blooming thing & I am well aware of the image file name for outer layout and css short cuts ;).

To elaborate, if you only make a minor tweak, add a marketing message etc within the outer layout, in-build the facility to upload this one file via FTP.

Home users would find this useful as would store owners that have 1000's of items within the store and checking takes forever...

Regards

[jont]

Agreed.

This would be best handled with a user clickable option / wizard for non-techies for the whole site and an integrated FTP client to send say just the CSS which still retains the upload time stamp.

[Duncan Rounding]

The complication comes with the cat files and search indexes.

You could however have a 'full' site html folder containing all the uploaded files. Then have a selection to generate the page and it's dependant files on demand. You could then browse to that folder and upload any changed files (by date if you wished), be that within Actinic or not.

[Darren B]

I agree add a wish for me, drives me up the wall, always checking files i never changed

[jont]

Probably along the same lines - the ability to let Actinic know you have only imported a Snapshot and nowt else has changed to prevent everything being resent again.

Just killed a site and Actinic would not open... thankfully have a vanilla executive in MultiSite and could launch into this from the command prompt, licensed a new site, delete the killed and import a snapshot ... now sat awaiting the upload as it thinks it is new stuff.

[Duncan Rounding]

...Just killed a site and Actinic would not open... thankfully have a vanilla executive in MultiSite and could launch into this from the command prompt...

Having had this happen a number of times I always keep a 'clean' default site licensed as a back door.

[pinbrook]

I've always got a clean defaut store too

[jont]

Makes you feel very sorry for those that do not have MultiSite installed so don't have this option :o

[TraceyHand]

us mere mortals, you mean? :p

[Toby B]

We will be revising the upload checking and generation process for a future release.