It does not, however, change the view of other open documents.
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, Dreamweaver displays
your page with data from your data source. Toggle Live Data view on and off by choosing View ???
Live Data or by clicking the Live Data View button on the Document toolbar (as described later in this
chapter). 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 3-5.
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 message
appears with several possible solutions listed.
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