Setting the Live Data Settings dialog box options

Setting the Live Data Settings dialog box options

The purpose of this dialog box is to provide a page with data expected from users so that Dreamweaver can display the page in Design view with live data.

To provide a page with live data:

  1. In the URL Request area, click the Plus (+) button and enter a parameter your page expects.

    Specify a name and a test value for each parameter.

  2. In the Method pop-up menu, select the HTML form method your page expects: POST or GET.
  3. In the Initialization Script text area, include any source code you want to insert at the top of the page before it runs.

    Initialization scripts usually consists of code that set session variables. For more information, see Understanding session variables.

  4. To save your settings for the current page, click Save Settings For This Document.
  5. Click OK.

Related topics

  • Providing the page with expected parameters
  • Viewing live data in Design view
  • Form parameters
  • URL parameters


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