I'm using Umbraco 3 and have been using the original template editor for editing any templates. This is getting to be very frustrating because it seems to add heaps of line breaks when i'm just simply pasting in a snippet of code. Also have noticed that when i pasted any <a href>'s in, it changes the link destination by adding extra characters.
I'm in need of something better! Awhile ago I came across a page on the web where someone had developed an alternative but i forgot to bookmark it. Does anyone have any suggestions?
My suggestion is to upgrade the site to Umbraco 4 and use Visual Studio. Umbraco 4 uses ASP.NET master pages which means you can edit them with Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010 or any of the Express versions.
But I've never come across a different template editor for v3, since it was a custom template format
I agree with Slace I always use visual studio for any of my template coding in v4 and also use it for some xslt (i just think its easier and faster...)
I've used this tutorial to setup the project for my team to use. However, I've seen that some people are also somehow copying templates but i'm not sure how that's being done. Haven't found anything that resebles template folder on the filesystem, only cmsTemplate table in the database, which holds template definition.
Better Template Editor?
Hi,
I'm using Umbraco 3 and have been using the original template editor for editing any templates. This is getting to be very frustrating because it seems to add heaps of line breaks when i'm just simply pasting in a snippet of code. Also have noticed that when i pasted any <a href>'s in, it changes the link destination by adding extra characters.
I'm in need of something better! Awhile ago I came across a page on the web where someone had developed an alternative but i forgot to bookmark it. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Kim
My suggestion is to upgrade the site to Umbraco 4 and use Visual Studio. Umbraco 4 uses ASP.NET master pages which means you can edit them with Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010 or any of the Express versions.
But I've never come across a different template editor for v3, since it was a custom template format
Call me old-fashioned, but a decent text editor for templates should suffice! e-text editor is great (win) or textmate (mac).
I just build up the html until it's working before replacing static html with the output from xslt
I agree with Slace I always use visual studio for any of my template coding in v4 and also use it for some xslt (i just think its easier and faster...)
Agree to Slace, I am using VS for all editings, ecpecially for XSLT: intellysense for xslt rocks.
Thomas
Do you know a good tutorial on setting up development environment with Visual Studio for Umbraco 4?
Have a read at http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/codegarden-2009/open-space-minutes/working-in-visual-studio-when-developing-umbraco-solutions
It's a great starting point.
Thanks Chris.
I've used this tutorial to setup the project for my team to use. However, I've seen that some people are also somehow copying templates but i'm not sure how that's being done. Haven't found anything that resebles template folder on the filesystem, only cmsTemplate table in the database, which holds template definition.
What am I missing here?
every template is just a .master file as they can be infinately hierarchical.
You'll find them in 'master' folder.
In Umbraco 4 this is 'masterpages' right?
yep, I tried to remember from memory instead of checking. The folder is called 'masterpages'
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