EnforcerX35
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Hi,
I've created a template using artisteer and have unloaded it to my joomla site. Since them ive made some changes on my templates code through Joomla and through my web server. I want to make some more general template changes that i think would be easier through Artisteer.
How do i import my template that i have edited from Joomla back into Artisteer for editing? I know i can edit my original *.atrx file of my template but i will loose the changes ive made!
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Phil
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There is no import facility in Artisteer.
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Dinsdale
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There's nothing to fix.
If you make changes to the template outside Artisteer, you'll have to re-apply them if you change the template.
It would be impossible for Artisteer to apply the changes you made externally.
I suggest you do a little programming and then see if you still think that what you're asking is reasonable.
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David
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Same problem, have saved an '.artx' file from the template that took a few hours to perfect, exported it and uploaded to Wordpress... Now when I open the '.artx' file, its reverted straight back to nothing.
Never going to get it looking the same!
Real shame
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Randy
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Don't let this thread die!
Artisteer NEEDS and should be fully able to import something that it exported.
In a case like mine, which unfortunately seems to be common.... I either forgot to save the .artx file or I accidentally deleted it somehow and now I only have the Joomla exported template.
If I make changes to the Template in Joomla, I keep track of them in a notepad, but I sure wish I could import the exported template folder back into Artisteer to make some changes (and save it as the .artx file).
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Geoff
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My approach to preserving template customisations at present is to create an "overrides.css" file and place it in the template's css folder.
Then add this line into the HTML head of the template:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $templateUrl; ?>/css/overrides.css" media="screen" />
Before updating the template again from within Artisteer, I make a copy of the overrides.css which I use to repeat the above process after a fresh export.
It's a little clumsy, but works, and is the only way I know to preserve customisations as a whole, without having to make hacks in the existing template.css file.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Garry
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Making changes in some of the following files is preserved:
Program Files\Artisteer 2\Library\Data\Templates\Joomla\Export\Files folder
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Hessam
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It's ludicrous to find a well design platform like artisteer which gives me a lot of options as a novice web designer, has failed to consider importing facility. I don't want to be cynical; however, I just guess there might be other reasons involved other than lack of ability of its designers.
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Oliver
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I'm also a 20+ years professional programmer with experience in many areas, and I'm extremely interested in this import feature, and looked at Artisteer .artx (= .zip) files, and at Joomla templates, e.g. the "beez_20" template, and my impression is that such an import feature would be extremely difficult to program.
But maybe there is a workaround:
If we had the HTML source of the outcome, might we be able to create a template from it? Let's say we use a Joomla installation for our purposes that renders the Joomla template that we want to import in Artisteer, and use a special standardized content (some dummy categories and articles and modules) for our testing pruposes.
In the resulting HTML code we should also see any CSS styles, which would also be partially specific for the used web browser, of course, so we might want to output the template on various web browsers and calculate the parts that are always same, and the parts that depend on the web browser.
This is only an idea in a direction, I don't know enough about Joomla templates yet.
Maybe it would be possible to attempt an import with such an approach, and then maybe some import attempts might fail, and some might be more or less successful, that would already be an improvement compared to having nothing at all.
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