I think I am getting closer, but I am just not following quite right. This is the test page now for the accordion action: http://westcoastsolarconceptsinc.mobi/test2.html I think I have the HTML containers done correctly and just can not get the correct setting in the Actions Window?
Could you please let me know what I might be doing wrong here please?
I don’t understand this and now I have to completely start from scratch and rebuild another like site. Now I am not able to get anything working at all!
Even without the Slide Exhibeo item there I could not find the correct combination of setting for the accordion script to ever work. There’s a lot of guess work to the settings and I have tried a couple dozen combinations of the settings until I think I tried them all, but the instructions are certainly not clear enough for someone like me to figure out on my own.
Now I have no Actions running on the site and have a half dozen Action errors/warnings that I can not clear and do not understand, I have have to now start over with another whole new site and see if I can get this together again.
Could someone CLEARLY explain how to use the Accordion Script settings?
My client is going to FREAK out tomorrow now since I ruined the slideshow, which was certainly THE most important part of this site.
Ok now I have a test page with basically nothing more than the top banner and the first accordion script and no matter what, I can not get anything to happen.
Once I had removed the Slide Exhibeo item from the previous page (on my Mac but did not upload) when I would click onto the trigger image, I would then see the URL line move as if it was trying to load up something.
Thanks for any and all help. Once I get this script to work, then I am hoping to put the Exhibeo slideshow right below that and then another Accordion script that will open a HTML box with only text.
Would love to have this all working before the weekend ends!
In my experience, any issues with Accordion have to do with trying to do too many things at once. Start with something that works correctly, then try to make it look the way you want it to.
Please follow these steps in a new blank document (as an exercise), so you can assure yourself that the Action does what it is advertised to do. This should only take a few minutes.
New, blank document, no template. Draw an HTML box on the initial page.
Apply the ScriptyAccordion Action to that box, and leave the settings at default.
Double-click into the box, and type the words “Heading 1”, then press return. Type a new paragraph of dummy text after that (or copy and paste some Lorem Ipsum into place). Press return.
Repeat step 3 a few times, incrementing the number on the Heading line. You should now have an equally-balanced set of headings and paragraphs following them.
Triple-click each heading line in turn, and after the entire heading line is selected, click the H2 listed in the Styles palette. The heading will become bold. Do not alter the style of any other text in the box.
Click outside of the box, then click the box again so its handles appear. In the Inspector, set the Height property to Flexible.
Preview in a browser.
You now have a fully-functional (but admittedly ugly) accordion effect.
Let me know when you’ve done this, and I’ll explain how to make it look more purtiful.
Walter
On Apr 26, 2015, at 3:56 AM, Rgator email@hidden wrote:
Ok now I have a test page with basically nothing more than the top banner and the first accordion script and no matter what, I can not get anything to happen.
Once I had removed the Slide Exhibeo item from the previous page (on my Mac but did not upload) when I would click onto the trigger image, I would then see the URL line move as if it was trying to load up something.
Thanks for any and all help. Once I get this script to work, then I am hoping to put the Exhibeo slideshow right below that and then another Accordion script that will open a HTML box with only text.
Would love to have this all working before the weekend ends!
Looking at this URL, you can see that the script tags in the head of the page do not contain the URLs to the scripts – they say , which is a sign that Freeway messed up while publishing. You can probably get this to work if you locate your local Site Folder (the folder on your Mac where Freeway writes the site files) and empty it entirely and publish again. This often gets Freeway off the couch and forces it to re-make the files it is supposed to be linking to.
If you don’t want to do that, you can also open the File / Document Setup, and click on the Site Folder button in the middle of the Document tab. Just pick (or create within the dialog) a new folder, and it will have the same effect of forcing Freeway to re-make all of the pages.
Walter
On Apr 26, 2015, at 3:56 AM, Rgator email@hidden wrote:
Ok now I have a test page with basically nothing more than the top banner and the first accordion script and no matter what, I can not get anything to happen.
Once I had removed the Slide Exhibeo item from the previous page (on my Mac but did not upload) when I would click onto the trigger image, I would then see the URL line move as if it was trying to load up something.
Thanks for any and all help. Once I get this script to work, then I am hoping to put the Exhibeo slideshow right below that and then another Accordion script that will open a HTML box with only text.
Would love to have this all working before the weekend ends!
Just pick (or create within the dialog) a new folder, and it will have the same effect of forcing Freeway to re-make all of the pages.
Another method – the simplest of them all? – is to hold down the Command key while pulling down the File menu. The “Publish” menu item changes to “Publish Everything”. But if you don’t get joy with this then definitely try Walter’s suggestions.
So far I have not been able to get even Walter’s easy test to work. The browser just shows all the text and no reactions at all! I’m going to get it on a server, but it seems to be putting in the URL for the script now.
In my experience, any issues with Accordion have to do with trying to do too many things at once. Start with something that works correctly, then try to make it look the way you want it to.
Please follow these steps in a new blank document (as an exercise), so you can assure yourself that the Action does what it is advertised to do. This should only take a few minutes.
New, blank document, no template. Draw an HTML box on the initial page.
Apply the ScriptyAccordion Action to that box, and leave the settings at default.
Double-click into the box, and type the words “Heading 1”, then press return. Type a new paragraph of dummy text after that (or copy and paste some Lorem Ipsum into place). Press return.
Repeat step 3 a few times, incrementing the number on the Heading line. You should now have an equally-balanced set of headings and paragraphs following them.
Triple-click each heading line in turn, and after the entire heading line is selected, click the H2 listed in the Styles palette. The heading will become bold. Do not alter the style of any other text in the box.
Click outside of the box, then click the box again so its handles appear. In the Inspector, set the Height property to Flexible.
Preview in a browser.
You now have a fully-functional (but admittedly ugly) accordion effect.
Let me know when you’ve done this, and I’ll explain how to make it look more purtiful.
There’s something messed up with your document, the Action has run, but it has not linked to the actual library scripts. In the very head of the page, you have two empty remote script tags, one for prototype.js and the other for scriptaculous effects, but they are both empty – their src attribute is blank.
Try downloading the ScriptyAccordion Action again, and install it in your Actions folder. Unzip the Action file when you download it from the Forge, and rather than drag it over the Freeway icon in the Dock, do the following to really open up the Actions folder and look.
In Finder, hold down the Option key, and pull down the Go menu to the Library option.
Dig through the folder hierarchy from Application Support to Freeway Pro to Actions. See if the Action is there. If it isn’t, then look in the General folder. If it is there, drag it into the trash and delete it. Then drag in the new copy of Accordion.
Quit Freeway, and start it up again. Make sure that the only document you have open is the new document you made.
Click on the HTML box that you applied the Action to, and in the Action palette, click on the (x) in the tab labeled ScriptyAccordion.
Re-apply the ScriptyAccordion Action to the box.
Publish and upload.
If that doesn’t get you a working set of links to the two libraries, then there’s something more deeply messed up here.
Walter
On Apr 26, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Rgator email@hidden wrote:
On 26 Apr 2015, 3:28 pm, waltd wrote:
In my experience, any issues with Accordion have to do with trying to do too many things at once. Start with something that works correctly, then try to make it look the way you want it to.
Please follow these steps in a new blank document (as an exercise), so you can assure yourself that the Action does what it is advertised to do. This should only take a few minutes.
New, blank document, no template. Draw an HTML box on the initial page.
Apply the ScriptyAccordion Action to that box, and leave the settings at default.
Double-click into the box, and type the words “Heading 1”, then press return. Type a new paragraph of dummy text after that (or copy and paste some Lorem Ipsum into place). Press return.
Repeat step 3 a few times, incrementing the number on the Heading line. You should now have an equally-balanced set of headings and paragraphs following them.
Triple-click each heading line in turn, and after the entire heading line is selected, click the H2 listed in the Styles palette. The heading will become bold. Do not alter the style of any other text in the box.
Click outside of the box, then click the box again so its handles appear. In the Inspector, set the Height property to Flexible.
Preview in a browser.
You now have a fully-functional (but admittedly ugly) accordion effect.
Let me know when you’ve done this, and I’ll explain how to make it look more purtiful.
