Shared borders don't update.. bug?

[T.J. Warner]

Hi group ...

Noticed something that seems a little weird, if not a bug. Using a site
with shared borders. Top is a banner, left is a navigation bar, and the
right (main) is the content.

I decided I was going to add another menu item, so I changed the
left.htm file in the _borders directory. I figured that's all I needed
to do.

When I loaded the index.htm file, it did pick up the change, but when I
FTP'd the updated borders file (to the appropriate directory), the all
the pages of the site didn't update. The index page did, but not the rest.

I'm a little confused. Shouldn't the site pick up the shared
information from left.htm and top.htm respectively?

What ended up working was FTP'ing each HTM file that I have and
overwriting the old one (no changes were made to any of those files).
Don't ask why, but it worked.

I even had cleared my cache and tried in IE and Firefox before
re-FTP'ing all the files.

Just curious as to why this is occuring? Shouldn't I just be able to
change the borders files themselves without having to re-upload the
entire site?

Using FP2003, if that matters. I use FTP rather than the publish
command as I can't change the remote computer's time zone. Therefore,
it tells me each time I want to publish that ALL my files are
out-of-sync and it never can fix itself due to the time difference. So,
I choose to FTP instead.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen [FP-MVP]]

As you discovered, you must upload all files that are changed. That
means all that use that shared border.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

When using Shared Border or FP Include Pages, you must upload the complete site when you make
changes. If you have the FP extensions on the live/remote server and use FP http method to publish,
then you would only need to select to publish Change Pages Only.

Shared Borders and FP Include Pages are design-time components, not run-time, so the update only
take place in the FP client application or when you publish.

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[John Grether]

Gotcha! Thanks for the help!