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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible
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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

by Joseph Lowery
March 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1321 pages
46h 24m
English
Wiley
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59
Touring Dreamweaver
3
Live Data view
If you are creating a Web application that includes dynamic elements from a database, Dreamweaver
offers an alternate version of Design view for your page—Live Data view. In Live Data view, Dream-
weaver displays your page with data from your data source. Toggle Live Data view on and off by
choosing View ➪ Live Data. A keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+R (Command+Shift+R), also enables
Live Data view.
Live Data view is one of Dreamweaver’s key features. When you’re in Live Data view, you can lay out
your page—formatting text items, adjusting graphics, and modifying tables—while the actual data
from your application is onscreen. The live data that Dreamweaver displays replaces data source
placeholders such as
{rs.employeeID} with the selected information pulled from the database’s
designated field, as shown in Figure 3-7.
FIGURE 3-7
Live Data view lets you work on the Web page—altering the format and layout—while working with actual
data from your application.
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Part I
Laying the Groundwork in Dreamweaver CS4
Live Data view requires that a connection to a testing server, either local or remote, be properly
established in the Site Definition dialog box. If Dreamweaver is unable to complete the connection,
an error ...
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