Dialogs Framework Basic Concepts
Page Templates, CSS files, Page and List Automation Scripts (File-based components)
Updated: 21 Apr 2023
Page Templates, CSS files, Page Automation Scripts and List Automation Scripts are stored as files within the website directory for convenience of editing with external editors (such as Eclipse, Dreamweaver, Sublime, or Coda) and for performance when a page render.
- Files added to a website through the Dialogs Control Panel (DCP) are accessible for editing there as well as via FTP.
- Files added to a website via FTP are NOT visible in the DCP for editing. For example, a css file may be copied to the /css/ directory and successfully called from that directory by the HTML that defines pages within Dialogs, but the DCP will not list this file.
- Files edited within the DCP are saved BOTH to the MySQL database and to disk.
- Each time a file is opened for editing within the DCP, Dialogs checks to see if a more recent version of the file is stored on disk (placed there by FTP), loading it into the browser for editing and subsequent saving.
- Dialogs revision tracking ("Go Back To") only tracks edits that were saved through the DCP.