You may also take note of this reply I got when submitting the feature
request from the form you directed me to:

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DREAMWEAVER MX - PREVIEW RELEASE
If you are contacting us about feature requests or problems for
Dreamweaver MX, please direct your comments instead to the online forums
for the Dreamweaver MX Preview Release.  We are actively monitoring
these forums as a single source of feedback and support for the preview
release: <http://webforums.macromedia.com/preview_dreamweaver_mx/>.
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Joshua Miller
Web Development :: Programming
Eagle Web Development LLC
www.eaglewd.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(304) 622-5676 (Clarksburg Office)
(304) 456-4942 (Home Office)


-----Original Message-----
From: Vernon Viehe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:03 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Macromedia Folks: What are you thinking?


I wanted to talk to some of our most seasoned CF'ers around here before
I got back with you on this. We stepped through what was necessary to
set up the RDS connection and edit files both in CF Studio and DWMX, and
what the fundemental differences are. We think we've boiled it down to a
few relevant differences.

1.) You must declare a local root folder:
Keep in mind, you don't have to d/l the whole site to this folder. In
fact, you can view files in the "remote" view so that you're looking at
them live on the server. When you double-click the file, it will appear
to open directly in DW (what actually happens is that DW d/l's the file
to the local folder you declared in the definition, if you chose "Edit
files directly on the testing server" in the site wizard, or chose
"Automatically upload files on save" in the regular definition box, DW
will upload the file as soon as you hit Save.) This is in effect the
same as editing live on the server, with the exception that you will
have a local copy of whichever file you edited, saved in a corresponding
location in the local folder.

All in all, this doesn't seem to present any barriers to one's workflow,
it's just a different methodology whose results are pretty much the same
in both programs.

2. There is no option to use FTP/RDS in the save-as dialog box: This
means that to save & upload to another site/location other than the site
currently chosen, you have to first save it to the corresponding
location in the local root folder of that site, then switch to that
site's definition in the files window to "put" the file. This can
require a few extra steps which I can see being a pain if you need to
save the same file to several sites often.

Otherwise, if it's in the current site, then the option to Automatically
upload on save pretty much takes care of this.

If the FTP & RDS Explorer in the save as dialog is important to you,
please let us know by using the Feature Request and Bug Report form at:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform?6213=6

I hope this helps!

Vernon Viehe
Community Manager
Macromedia, Inc.
Online diary: http://vvmx.blogspot.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:57 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Macromedia Folks: What are you thinking?
> 
> 
> Why did you remove basic use of FTP/RDS from Studio and
> replace it with
> the Dreamweaver SITE function?
> 

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