Features I would love to see in the next release of Dreamweaver and Dreamweaver UltraDev.



Edited by - Pinchio on 19 Apr 2002 20:32:49

<font face='Verdana'>Wish List for UD 5:
1) Heavily expanded SQL section (maybe even an O'Reilly SQL manual of some sort?)
2) PHP SUPPORT! (my #1 biggest reason for upgrading if I do)
3) Nested Repeat Regions

I could convince my employer to upgrade all of our UltraDev's (1) to 5 on the PHP addition alone.
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Please make it work with ServeU

<font face='Verdana'>Things i would liek to see are:

</font id='Verdana'> <ul><li>Support for ASP 3.0 & ASP.net </li><li>Thumbnail preview option in site manager window </li><li>internal database view(Similar to VS6's Snap shot viewer)</li><li>Support for other server scripting like: PHP, Perl, C#, Ect.. </li><li>Created Recordsets as site wide assets </li><li>Not so much of a memory pig </li></ul>

If these can be added in for the next version i would be a <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> camper

I second the call for full CSS 2 (or even complete CSS 1!) support in layout mode. (Anyone tried to work with position:fixed selectors in DW/UD? It sucks big time.)

Flash specialist.
www.kathdesign.com/

I would like to see support for ASP.NET and if not possible then please include a docking station for all those pallet that I can never work our where to put them. Otherwise I am very happy with macromedia thus far.

what everyone already said with stress on making database, forms etc as idiot proof as, well I hate to say it, Front Page. I will cover my mouth now. Honestly DW4 does so much already, add extentions to it and it really kicks butt, hand code forms??? why not use Notepad for crying outloud......GIVE IT TO ME! please?!

TAQ

I'd like to see an extensive set of "starting points" for various stypes of web sites including:

eCommerce retail (BtC),
BtB, BtD etc.
Intranet
Personnel benefits
News portal
Shopping portal
Employment portal
Associate program
. . . etc.

I would like to have an off-line means of using the DB connections. This would allow work on the road. JaneBuilder at seejanecode.com does this. It appears to be simple in reality. Just store the table structures in an xml format that the app can substitute for a live connection. This lets me work on the road or disconnected. I procedure could be set up to suck the table structures from a db based on the connection definition for remote use.

I wish : Full PHP4 Support if possible

I AB-SO-LUTE-LY agree! While I wouldn't want to get too carried away, I'd love to be able to incorporate PHP pages more readily on my JSP site.

There's times when PHP is just easier/more elegant a solution...

Brett Chandler (Thunderbuck)

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I would love to be able to use multiple server models on a site so that I could mix ASP, CFML, JSP and PHP pages.

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My request is very very simple...

I want two visible dedicated buttons that
1. Save
2. Put

Why must we go to a drop down menu to do the two most common (and valuable) functions there are.

"Ctrl + S" will give you a save
"Ctrl + Shift + U" will put

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My request is very very simple...

I want two visible dedicated buttons that
1. Save
2. Put

Why must we go to a drop down menu to do the two most common (and valuable) functions there are.

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<ul><li>1. CSS1, CSS2, CSS-P support. This <b>includes</b> being able to use DIVs in a layout and modifying them without having the styles inline to the layer. It's so stupid that I have to use a text-editor to do visual layout and still have a nice external style sheet. Argh!</li>

<li>2. XHTML compliance. DOCTYPE switching for layout. DW needs a <b>built-in</b> preview, in the layout mode, of how a document will look with the various DOCTYPEs. please, <b>show me</b> what'll happen when I put a document into Strict in, say, IE 6, or any of the other browsers that change the display between Transitional and Strict.&lt;br&gt;

Also, properly nested, XHTML compliant code. Integrate Tidy if need be, but there's no reason why I still have to use tables if I don't want to. And right now I can't even use DW if I want to do a table-less layout.</li>

<li>3. Customizable tag placement: (i.e. let me change B into STRONG if that's what I want. same with I and EM. that is, without hacking into the program. That's lame.</li>

<li>4. A DOM-tree and the choice to make all popular Javascript operations (e.g. mouseovers, Show-Hide Layers, etc.) based on the DOM. At least as an option.</li>

<li>5. I have to agree with the need for the 3-stage development path. I've had to create 2 different DW Sites to accomplish this. Local to DEV, DEV to QA, QA to Live. It's a giant waste of time imho.</li>

<li>6. Oh yeah, and all the backend stuff that's being mentioned here. I don't touch that stuff, but i'm sure it's very important.</li></ul>

-phatbankster

Better built in code support.
Auto-complete feature would be nice.

I'd love to see the same thing below, though with more pizzaz with updating multiple records using repeat regions as well! There's already a multiple records delete extension, now it'd be up to the extensiologists out there to create a multiple update thingee.

I think UD5's development (even UD4's) largely depends on the helpfulness of the so-called "extensiologists" out there. The more the merrier... MORE POWER TO ULTRADEV AND ALL UD-LOVERS!!! If not for UD... we wouldn't have existed!!!

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Give me NESTED REPEAT REGIONS!!!!!!!!!!! You know all ov you want this too. It's just the best thing that could happen with all of this. Also, maybe having a SQL query executed using data from another query in the same page, inside of a repeated region, or something like that. Mmmm'kay?

-Digital D.


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1.) A way to over view all the installed extensions - IT'S A MESS -

2.) A built in advanced search extension for more than one table.

Create your nested repeat in separate file. Give the variable "Repeat1__numRows" a uninque name everywhere it appears. Then include in you page. Simple.
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Give me NESTED REPEAT REGIONS!!!!!!!!!!! You know all ov you want this too. It's just the best thing that could happen with all of this. Also, maybe having a SQL query executed using data from another query in the same page, inside of a repeated region, or something like that. Mmmm'kay?

-Digital D.


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I don't know if it's just me, but i when i've installed 30+ extensions, the menus get very sluggish. and the css menus are very slow if you have a lot of styles. Couldn't UD cache the menus and then have an extra pane in the options window, so you could re build menus if you wanted to, they would be rebuilt on startup. Css menus could have a button at the bottom 'rebuild'.

Easy

Regards
Steven Jones

Methinx -

php4
true support for xhtml and css
an xml parser

cheers


AM

Okay my wish list:

Accessibility integration - I mean the ability to add the summary element to the table tag without hand coding, ID's for form input, the title element for images. Right now, even with the Accessibility pack you still have to hand code these and other things.

Better CSS support.

Full PHP support.

Full ASP 3.0 support. And some nod to ASP .NET. And if you do support .NET maybe the ability to pick your .NET language: C#, VB or even Python (I know this is asking a HUGE amount. Not to mention with Python you'd have to require that they have the proper software installed).

A built in DBMS interface that works with mySQL (not just Access and MS SQL). With the ability to add/delete fields, tables and databases. etc....

A decent SQL query builder. Something graphical. Just because I'm lazy and I hate typing the SQL.

Better integration with Fireworks. I hate having to launch Firework just to make a small change. Maybe a mini-Firework within UD.

Allow searching of the Assets panel, including the reference sections..

Oh and Please include nested recordsets and multi-table inserts. Oh and a multi-table deletion module might be nice (although this can handled by an extension),

That’s it… Oh and of course FIX THE KNOWN BUGS. I’d like to be able to include ASP in a library item, better layer handling- you know what they are.


Stephen Cox
web.net geek for nonprofits and political campaigns.

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Yes, I agree 100%. Also, it would be nice to be able to specify a backup directory for existing code to me moved to first then have my new code promoted.

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If you have run a development shop which consists of a development server and a staging/test server and a production server you would have come accross this publishing nightmare:

When I'm finished developing a section of code or page and would like to promote to my staging server I have to goto windows explorer copy the file from the dev server and paste it into the appropriate folder on the staging server. I have to repeat the same procedure for promoting from stage server to production server. A process which becomes very combersome if I have files all over the place that need to be published onto a different server.

What I would like would be a "Publish To" option which will open a window of sorts and allow you to specify which files I would like to publish and to what server (location--&gt; remote or local) I would like to publish them to. The folder structure would be recursive and place all published files into their respective remote folders.

Anyone elese think this would be awsome?

Please bring this dream into fruition Macromedia UD team.

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Edited by - pinchio on 06/01/2001 17:27:28

Edited by - Pinchio on 07/18/2001 18:47:46
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Using Access 2000..
1) Selectively not Show specified empty cells within same RSets
2) Full "site" search

That's an easy one...

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Isn't this obvious? I won't buy it if a php server model is not included.

Ultradev for Linux would be awesome too. But we all know they'll never do it.



Edited by - jdames on 02 Jan 2002 17:46:55

when I try to upload the database to a local or remote server from the UD site view, I get a 'file sharing violation' and UD often freezes. to upload the database after some alterations, I must close UD and upload using a separate FTP client. this is not the most efficient way to go... could something be done about that?



Edited by - picturit on 10 Jan 2002 14:34:09

I would like to see XHTML support, ASP.NET and PHP support. Beef up the text editor in Ultradev. Make the text editor more like a slimmed down Ultraedit. I know I can make it an external editor, and thats nice to have the option, but it would be nice to see the apps native editor have more features so I dont need to open an external editor.

Let us un-attach and move menu bar items so we can dock them top left right or bottom of screen.

A BIG PLUS, have a Macromedia driver library disc with the package or at an additional (minimal fee) What do I mean by this? Having specialized ODBC or JDBC data drivers available for many different databases. Including obscure databases like OS400, Progress software, sybase etc. Most tutorials always deal just with SQL server or Oracle. Maybe partner with Merant. More information on how to setup connections with other DB's with either ODBC or JDBC connections.