FotoWeb 6.0 User Guide - Customization - FotoWare

2.7.2.2 Manually edit templates
Customizing FotoWeb 3.0
The ‘Edit’ option launches a simple text editor with the selected template with a triple color-coding of the errors.
The simple case errors are marked with green color. The errors that need an update are marked with blue and all
other errors are marked with red color. The red color is a basic indication that the error should be fixed manually.
The drop down box on the top of the editor can be used to quickly navigate to the errors. By use of the drop down
box, a brief description of the error is also displayed on the top of the editor.
If you have edited and saved a template in ‘Edit’ window, then it will automatically be re-validated when you close
the editor. You can edit only one template at a time. Use the ‘Edit’ option to manually edit the templates or just to
simply view the errors and the context they have occurred in.
Screenshot 9: Manual edit template window.
2.7.2.3 Delete templates
You can delete the templates using the ‘Delete’ option. Multiple templates can be deleted simultaneously. This
operation moves the selected files to Window’s recycle bin where they can be restored.
2.7.2.4 Re-validate templates
Use ‘Refresh’ option to re-validate the templates. This option can be handy if you are using a third-party editor
while validating the templates.
2.7.3 Special case with include files
Some special cases can occur with respect to the include files where the logical structure of the including and
included files is correct, but errors may be reported by the script validator. The following example illustrates such a
case.
The assumed ‘main.fwx’ has two references of include files in the script, ‘include1.inc’ and ‘include2.inc’. The
‘include1.inc’ sets some variables and conditions that are referred in ‘include2.inc’. ‘Include2.inc’ does not have
any direct reference for the variables used in the file that indicate their setting by ‘include1.inc’. Thus, when
‘include2.inc’ is validated, ‘out of scope’ errors will occur every time the variables/conditions from ‘include1.inc’ are
used.
To resolve this problem, a special include instruction is introduced that is as follows:
Figure 6: Include statement for template validation.
In ‘include2.inc’, add one of the above strings on the first line with the reference to ‘include1.inc’. This way, the
validator will know that the file is using variables/conditions that are set by ‘include1.inc’ and no errors will be
generated. Since the string is contained in HTML comments, this will not affect the normal processing of the page.
However, it is important to maintain the exact structure of the string with respect to spaces etc in order to make it
work.
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