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CS4 code locked by template or translator

Thread began 9/14/2009 1:55 pm by jeff245800 | Last modified 9/16/2009 2:47 pm by Jimmy Wu | 4479 views | 6 replies |

9/14/2009 1:55 pm | #1 jeff245800

CS4 code locked by template or translator

I'm following the tutorial and when I try to add an 'Add to Cart' button I get the following error:

"Making this change would require changing code that is locked by a template or a translator. The change will be discarded."

Please advise.

Jeff

9/14/2009 4:56 pm | #2 Jimmy Wu

Make sure the location you are adding the add to cart button is within an editable region on the page.

Are you able to add an add to cart button on a blank page?

9/15/2009 12:39 am | #3 jeff245800

Work-around

Very strange behavior. If I add an ATC button with no properties set in the ATC dialog it will allow the button to be added. Then I delete the ATC code, refresh, select 'Yes'.

At this point I am able to add an ATC button with all my required properties set.

But everytime I tried to add the ATC button, while setting Bindings it rejected the add until I added a non-Binding button, delete, and refresh. Weird.

Jeff

9/15/2009 12:47 am | #4 jeff245800

Update to Workaround

Actually, I was able to narrow down the issue to this:

When using split screen in DW ( code top, preview bottom ), if you place the cursor in the 'Preview' panel and try to add the ATC, it fails with the error message originally posted.

However, if you place the cursor in the 'Code' view portion, the ATC will be added with no problems.

Jeff

9/15/2009 1:06 pm | #5 Jimmy Wu

That is quite interesting. What operating system are you running and which version of Dreamweaver? I'd like to try to reproduce this and log it as a bug if I can, so hopefully it can be fixed in a future release.

9/15/2009 10:36 pm | #6 jeff245800

XP Pro
DW CS4
eCart 4.5

9/16/2009 2:47 pm | #7 Jimmy Wu

Thanks, I'll try to reproduce that on our end.

One other thing you can do is to temporarily detach the page from the template and then apply the Add To Cart button and then attach the page to the template again. You can do this by:
1) Opening up the page in an external text editor and copying the line of code that looks similar to this to another text file:


It should be right after the open <html> tag.

2) Delete the code from your page, save and close the document.
3) Open the page in Dreamweaver and add the Add to Cart button.
4) Save the page and close it in Dreamweaver.
5) Open the page in an external text editor and then copy the code back in to the same location.

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