I am a Freeway Pro (4.1.1) newbie trying to add some navigation buttons that I have created to a website I have created that is based on the minmalistik template. I have already got a setup I like in the master page, but the buttons don’t seem to update on two already created pages. When I try “copy pasting” the nav buttons into the menubar, I get an extended blue “x” over the menubar. When I try to preview, I get the following message:
OVERFLOWED ITEMS. The following items are overflowed and will not be published.
Item: “Menubar”, Page: “Index”.
I can’t seem to find anything on this issue in the documentation (I have the printed manuals) or in the Knowledge Base or on this forum. Everything seems to refer to text overflow and getting the text to flow around a graphic item. This is not what I am trying to do.
The blue X means that a box is not large enough to contain its
contents. Try selecting the box with the X in it, and pressing Apple
Shift D, or selecting Item > Graphic > Fit Box to Graphic from the
main menu.
Walter
On Dec 15, 2007, at 6:51 AM, globetrotterdk wrote:
I am a Freeway Pro (4.1.1) newbie trying to add some navigation
buttons that I have created to a website I have created that is
based on the minmalistik template. I have already got a setup I
like in the master page, but the buttons don’t seem to update on
two already created pages. When I try “copy pasting” the nav
buttons into the menubar, I get an extended blue “x” over the
menubar. When I try to preview, I get the following message:
OVERFLOWED ITEMS. The following items are overflowed and will not
be published.
Item: “Menubar”, Page: “Index”.
I can’t seem to find anything on this issue in the documentation (I
have the printed manuals) or in the Knowledge Base or on this
forum. Everything seems to refer to text overflow and getting the
text to flow around a graphic item. This is not what I am trying to
do.
I found a work around by editing the master page, where there for some reason wasn’t a problem with adding the navigation buttons (no resizing necessary), and then creating new pages to replace the ones where I had the problem with. Weird.
Aha. What was happening here was that when you added a button to the Master Page, you simultaneously added new copies of it to every child page. If one pass-through image overlaps another (and you are not in Layers/CSS mode) then the lower of the two will be overflowed, since in Table layouts, two HTML elements cannot overlap one another.
Originally, I was trying just to add the navigation buttons directly to the relevant child pages.That is where I experienced the overflow error. When I added them to the Master page, the changes just weren’t available in the child pages. No errors at all.
BTW, is it possible to rename master pages? I want the child pages to stay as they are, but I would like to create a second Master page for some pages with a different layout.
Sure. Master pages are just regular pages with a “flag” set on them.
You can duplicate them, rename them (option-click the name in the
Site panel to make it editable, or use the Inspector when you’re on
the Master page itself), promote a regular page to a Master,
basically everything you can do to a regular page.
As to why your child pages weren’t updated when you edited the master
– I have had to use the following trick from time to time: Move to
the master page, select all, and Edit > Cut. Move through all the
child pages to confirm that every instance of the master elements has
also been deleted. IF not, then manually delete them from the child
pages. Move back to the Master page and Paste. All child pages should
now be updated with the latest master content.
Walter
On Dec 15, 2007, at 12:03 PM, globetrotterdk wrote:
Originally, I was trying just to add the navigation buttons
directly to the relevant child pages.That is where I experienced
the overflow error. When I added them to the Master page, the
changes just weren’t available in the child pages. No errors at all.
BTW, is it possible to rename master pages? I want the child pages
to stay as they are, but I would like to create a second Master
page for some pages with a different layout.