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Knowledge Base support case for AllWebMenus, abstracted and stripped of all user’s private info.

Initial Email From: User
Initial Email Subject: AllWebMenus and Sharepoint
Support Case Month: July 2012

I am trying to Link my menu to the sharepoint site and I 'm having trouble. Can you provide me with the necessary steps to publish/link the Menu to the site.

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Hello,

We do not have a specific plugin for SharePoint, as it was never intended by Microsoft to be a site-builder application (they have FrontPage and Expression Web for this).

Still, you should be able to use AllWebMenus as a stand-alone application with SharePoint. Please follow the generic instructions in our site:

http://www.likno.com/wat_generic.html

In "Step 3", I recommend using the manual method, where you copy-paste the Linking Code into your file(s). Ideally, if you use a template you will only have to add the code there and it will propagate into the rest of your pages. Make sure that your Linking Code "src" is root-relative, i.e. it starts with a slash "/".

Regards,
Kostas
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Knowledge Base support case for AllWebMenus, abstracted and stripped of all user’s private info.

Initial Email From: Robert
Initial Email Subject: help please
Support Case Month: July 2012

Hi,

I’ve been using AWM Pro (currently 5.3 build #892) for a few years now with Coffee Cup’s Visual Site Designer.
I haven’t changed the menu for about nine months and have run into some problems in trying to have my new menu appear on the site.
I have three questions:
1 - I’ve never been able to have the menu work in the site unless I manually add it onto every page, one at a time (using their HTML inserter - into “Body”). No big deal until now. I have been, and will be, adding more and more pages and it’s getting too timely to individually add a menu onto each page.
Is there anything I can do about this, or is there a limitation within my web authoring software that prevents me from just entering the code on one page and having it show up throughout the site, as your tutorials suggest?
2 - I have re-designed my menu, added and deleted some links. To test it, I created a copy of the site on a sub-domain. I cannot seem to get the new menu to appear even after completely deleting the old menu and files from the site folder and re-entering the new files/folder in the root directory.
What could I be doing incorrectly AND as an alternative:  How could I update my menu without having to completely create a new menu each time (once I get all this to work again)?
3 - My menu has radius corners. They have been rendering just fine in all browsers. All of a sudden in the latest Firefox (14.0.1) version there are no radius corners showing. Anything to do for that?

Thank you in advance,
Robert

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Robert,

1) Does Coffee Cup support the use of Template pages? If so, then you should be able to add the Linking Code only to the Template page and it will propagate to the rest of the pages automatically.

Note here that you only need to add the Linking Code once. After that, whenever you make changes to the menu you only need to recompile and upload the new files.

2) I cannot know for sure what went wrong. Can you please send me the URL so that I can have a look? Most likely cause I guess is a wrong path in the Linking Code, or a wrong Positioning setup.

3) This is a known issue that has already been corrected in the latest version. It occurred because FF14 changed the CSS code they use for rounded corners. Just recompile with build 894 to correct the problem.

Best Regards,
Kostas
Likno Customer Support
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Reply From: Robert

Thanks for your reply.
1) Coffee Cup says: "Visual Site Designer does not use a CMS format", so I think it means, no Template Page available.
    Is there an alternative?
2) This is a "testsite" with only a few of my web pages. The menu was "saved as" from the menu on my main site.  I changed the folder to "....testsite" to be in the root folder of this testsite.
I did not link the menu to pages, I took the code and entered it on each page with VSD's html inserter (as I have always done).
3) Downloaded 894. I'll "recompile" when I get all this cleared up first 🙂
    Whenever I recompile, do I need to change the code on each page (given no template) in order for the menu to work?
Robert

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Robert,

1) Do you have a local copy of your files? If so, then you should be able to automatically Link the menu to your pages through AWM. If not, then I am afraid that you will probably have to insert it manually as you do now.

2) I tested your site, and it seems that you did not upload the compiled menu files to the correct location. According to your Linking Code, the compiled menu file is expected at:

http://www.testsite.nierikasol.net/Site-Menu.js

3) No need to re-Link. You generally NEVER need to re-Link to a page that already has a Linking Code. This is so much true, that even the Linking Code of AllWebMenus v3 (2004) will still work with the compiled files of the latest AllWebMenus v5.

(of course you do need to update your Linking Code if you move or rename the compiled files)

Best Regards,
Kostas
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Reply From: Robert

1) I create the site locally, so I have all files on disk. I don't understand how to "automatically Link the menu to your pages through AWM" though. Would you be so kind as to give me step-by-step instructions?

2) I'm confused here too. I have attached two captures of my folders on my server (earthlink). Capture1 shows the AWM files under the root "testsite" directory, and Capture2 shows the same files in the testsite/public directory. Am I missing a basic concept here. I obviously knew what I was doing the last time I did this a year ago---my menus have worked perfectly, but it seems it all escapes me now!

3) So to make sure I understand --- this is the "linking code":

<!-- ******** BEGIN ALLWEBMENUS CODE FOR TESTSITE-Menu-2 (CSS MENU)******** -->
<link href="TESTSITE-Menu-2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script charset="UTF-8" src="TESTSITE_Menu_2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!-- ******** END ALLWEBMENUS CODE FOR TESTSITE-Menu-2 (CSS MENU)******** -->

and if I have it installed on all my pages (or can get the single installation to work on all pages) what files do I need to upload to the server (and where) to make the new menus appear/work?

Thank you very much for your time!
Robert

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

1) After you compile, you can click the “Link menu to web pages” button:

This will take you to the Link dialog where you can select files and link to them.

2) Did you maybe change the compiled menu name? This is your Linking Code:

<!-- ******** BEGIN ALLWEBMENUS CODE FOR Site-Menu ******** -->

<script type="text/javascript">var MenuLinkedBy="AllWebMenus [4]",awmMenuName="Site-Menu",awmBN="866";awmAltUrl="";</script><script charset="UTF-8" src="Site-Menu.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">awmBuildMenu();</script>

<!-- ******** END ALLWEBMENUS CODE FOR Site-Menu ******** -->

While this is looking for “Site-Menu.js”, I do not see such a file in your screenshots. Instead I see a file named “TESTSITE-Menu-2.js”.

This suggests that you changed the Compiled name, but you did not update your Linking Code to point to the new file.

3) The Linking Code you showed me here is from a CSS menu. There are different Linking Codes for JS menu, Server-Side menu etc. If you change the type (genre) of the menu then you also need to update the Linking Code.

The compiled files also differ depending on the type of menu you selected. The 100% safe choice is to compile into a new folder so that you know which files were generated. If you compile into an existing folder with many files, you can still spot the new ones if you “sort by date”.

Best Regards,
Kostas
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Reply From: Robert

Thanks, I'll use your information and try to work this out from here.

Knowledge Base support case for AllWebMenus, abstracted and stripped of all user’s private info.

Initial Email From: Fergus
Initial Email Subject: linking menu
Support Case Month: July 2012

I purchased the menus tonight, all went well except I am having a problem linking the menu into a webpage.

When I create a link the web page gets the following code added.

<!-- ******** BEGIN ALLWEBMENUS CODE FOR menu (CSS MENU)******** -->

<link href="menu.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<script charset="UTF-8" src="menu.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<!-- ******** END ALLWEBMENUS CODE FOR menu (CSS MENU)******** -->

however there is no bit of code within the body part to actually display the menu.  I imagine that it should be <ul> <li>item 1 etc...

any ideas?

the version of dreamweaver I am using is 6.0 (MX).  I don't mind editing a few files manually but the procedure to link likno and dreamweaver looked a bit complicated....

thanks

Fergus

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Fergus,

If you want to use the UL/LI or CSS version of the menu, then you indeed need to manually add the Structure Code to each of your pages (or to a template page).

AllWebMenus helps you by giving you a sample structure to copy-paste into your page. You can find this here:

Please let me know how this worked out and do not hesitate to contact me should you need more help.

Regards,
Aris Filokostas
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Knowledge Base support case for Likno Web Accordion Builder, abstracted and stripped of all user’s private info.

Initial Email From: Hugo
Initial Email Subject:  Positioning element "#liknoaccordion_positionID" is not found in page
Support Case Month: May 2012

I am getting the above error on all pages. This is not as simple as you claim. it makes no sense to me.

Likno Web Accordion Builder Error: Positioning element "#liknoaccordion_positionID" is not found in page

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Hello,

I checked your web page and indeed you have not added the "positioning" code, you only added the "linking code" that creates the accordion. But you also need to tell the accordion where this should appear on page.

This is not difficult to do, you may consult the "Sample Code" tab (check the "accordion positioning element" box) to see what you should include in your page:

If you get into difficulties, let me know.

Regards,
Kostas
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Knowledge Base support case for AllWebMenus, abstracted and stripped of all user’s private info.

Initial Email From: Raul
Initial Email Subject: Problem with AllWebMenus
Support Case Month: October 2012

Hello
I use AllWebMenus 5 and I have a menu running ok.
The directory structure is:
c:\RGB\menu.js
c:\RGB\awmdata
C:\RGB\awmdata\menu
The file C:\RGB\index.html use this menu to go to diferent html
C:\RGB\contacto.html
C:\RGB\supplies.html
...
I need also to use this menu from the file C:\RGB\galeria\index.html
I have try to copy menu.js to gmenu.js (to use in this new file) and modify this file but the
menu appear in the web but don't run the link.
I need help
Please, is very important for me.
Thanks in advance.
Raúl
Sorry for my bad english.

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Raul,

You should not copy the menu in multiple places. Instead, you only need to adjust the Linking Code.

In your page you have a Linking Code that looks something like this:

<!-- ******** BEGIN ALLWEBMENUS CODE FOR menu ******** -->

<script type="text/javascript">var MenuLinkedBy="AllWebMenus [4]",awmMenuName="menu",awmBN="GN";awmAltUrl="";</script>

<script charset="UTF-8" src="menu.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">awmBuildMenu();</script>

<!-- ******** END ALLWEBMENUS CODE FOR menu ******** -->

In order to fix the problem, all you need to do is to make sure the “src” path is correct for all pages. For example you could change it to:

src="/RGB/menu.js"

This way, it will work regardless of how deep your folders are.

Regards,
Kostas
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Reply From: Raul

Dear Kostas,
I had tried to write "/RGB/contacto.html" but then I had this error:
res://ieframe.dll/dnserror.htm#file:///RGB/contacto.html
Thanks for all.
Raúl

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Raul,

This is something that definitely works online. For local pages, maybe you should use the full-path “C:\RGB\contacto.html”.

Regards,
Kostas
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Reply From: Raul

Dear Kostas,
You are right that the configuration works online. 
Thanks for all.
Raúl