Click the Show Live Data View
button on the toolbar to refresh Dreamweaver??™s Document window and to replace all the dynamic data
placeholders with information from the declared data source. With Invisible Elements enabled (the default
for Dreamweaver), the newly visible Live Data is highlighted in whatever color is specified in Preferences.
To get the most out of Live Data view??”and to avoid problems??”you need a firm grasp of how
Dreamweaver is able to present your data, live. The following sections can help you understand this timesaving
feature.
How Live Data works
Once you??™ve entered Live Data view, you may notice an animation of a spinning Dreamweaver logo in the
right-hand corner of the Live Data toolbar before the page is refreshed. When the animation stops,
Dreamweaver has all the information needed to present the completed page. Here is what??™s happening
behind that spinning lowercase d:
1. The developer inserts dynamic data elements into a standard HTML page. The dynamic data is
represented by placeholders that combine the recordset and field names in a set of curly braces,
such as {rsEmployees.FirstName}.
2. When the Live Data view is enabled, Dreamweaver creates a hidden, temporary copy of the current
page.
3. The temporary page is stored in the folder designated in the Testing Server category of the Site
Definition dialog box.
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