I am convinced that it is impossible to import your own templates into the RVSitebuilder system. I have attempted to do it both as root and as a reseller. Each time, I get numerous errors returned:

In sheer frustration, I finally downloaded an original template, renamed it, zipped it up using Winzip, and attempted to import that. Even that EXACT COPY of an original template returned the error:

This was an RVSitebuilder template!!! NOTHING was changed in it -- only the foldername. All the files were kept exactly as-is, same file structure, everything. Yet it was still rejected as an import.

Please, I have been struggling to import a custom template for THREE WEEKS now, for a customer who wants to use RVSitebuilder for an existing site. This is just getting ridiculous. Is there any valid reason at all for the extreme validations that prevent the importing of any templates?

Has ANYONE out there ever been successful importing a template into RV Sitebuilder?? If this is supposed to be a special feature of RV Sitebuilder, it sure would be nice if one could actually get it to work.

I saw serveral users successfully import the templates but I cannot reveal the name. What's your RVSiteBuilder version?

This has occurred since I got RV Sitebuilder several versions ago. Still happening with v 1.64.

I finally managed to get all except one of the errors resolved. The error remaining is the same error as I got with the RVSitebuilder template itself (red_ribbon_2 which I simply renamed to red_sampletest_2, zipped, and attempted to upload):

The end result of course is the same: impossible to upload a template.

I have also noticed that on "Edit/Delete template" screen, there is nothing listed in the select box. I don't know if there are supposed to be all the default templates in the selection, or if it is normal to have nothing to select when there are no custom templates in the system. But at this point, this last issue is moot since I can't even get the d**n thing uploaded, never mind deleted.

please delete class="line" in index.htm
rezip your folder and upload again.

Thanks, that gave me a starting point, once I was able to duplicate that on the default template. However, class="line" was not anywhere in my index.htm or in the stylesheet. I did an "edit/find" in the index.htm for "class=" and came up with a list of every single class used in my index.htm. I compared that with everything in the style.css, and found that all classes in index.htm were accounted for in the stylesheet, and vice versa. Still no go.

Only after deleting every single bleeping custom class from index.htm and style.css, then slowly going back one at a time and adding each back in, was I able to discover the problem: I had different link classes defined, but the RVS css wanted a main class defined as well for each one, even though I was only using those classes for links.

One thing I did not like once I finally got the classes thing figured out: RVS spit out another error telling me not to define white as a color for any link classes. This seems an unnecessary hassle: the links were being used against a dark background. I ended up making them barely-but-not-quite white to get around that restriction.

OK so once I finally got past all that and uploaded a (expletive withheld) template, I found there was no way to specify whether a template should be public or private. Am I missing something? I have RV Sitebuilder Pro. One of the features promised is the ability to upload templates as either public or private. The "how to" for uploading templates even shows that as a setting for template imports. So why does my own RV Sitebuilder not allow me to do that? I have tried both as root and as reseller. My customer needs this template to be completely unique. They paid big money for a custom template and do NOT wish it to be available for use to anyone on that server who uses RV Sitebuilder. How do I make this template private??

After all that work, I had no choice but to delete the customized template I have been working on for nearly a month completely from the RV Sitebuilder system, in order to safeguard my customer's ownership of it.

Another problem, assuming the above can be resolved: I found that RVS does not allow me to use my own menu in the template. Rather, I must choose from specified menu styles and colors in the RVS stable. The menu selection colors provided by RVS are WAY too restrictive. This is a CUSTOM template. Why does RVS restrict me to using such a very limited number of pre-set color schemes for the menu?? They all clash with the custom template I created. If we are to be able to upload custom templates, it would be nice to be allowed to specify our necessary menu colors in hex equivalents to coordinate with our custom templates.

Login to user cPanel, access to RVSiteBuilder. You will find the import template feature. Import template here will make it private for this user. You can access to user cpanel using either user password or root password.


Navigator system was updated in our development source for a month. It does exactly as our request. We will release it in a next few days. The new navigator system will not let user choose the color for the navigator but use the color id specify for each template item instead. Our designers choose it for the user while building the template. This way we can pick the most suitable navigator color for each template. No more ugly navigator color.

Mon dieu! Please tell me I misunderstand when I think this means you are restricting menu color choices to the color group id's? If so, this is much worse. The whole point of custom templates is "custom". How can we possibly integrate a custom template if we cannot choose the menu colors ourselves, but are restricted to a limited series of 13 "color id sets" each with about 5 or 6 pre-set colors all chosen exclusively by your designers??

Not all color combinations chosen by other than your own designers are "ugly". Some of the rest of us are capable of producing good color sets/combinations of our own. There is nothing custom about a template that cannot coordinate with itself because of a menu that is limited to colorsets decided by RVS.

My customer has a live, successful OS Commerce store on a subdomain of the site. The main site coordinates 100% with the store. The way you are describing it, it will now be impossible to integrate RVS into any custom template for the main site, unless the OSC store is completely reverse-designed to match the new template. Something I am not about to do, considering the heavy customization in the OS Commerce part of the site.

In fact, it is impossible to integrate RVS to be used with ANY pre-existing website for this reason; and if I understand your reply correctly, then it sounds like the planned changes will make things even worse.

No. What you are mention is what currently it does. Currently the color of navigator inherit the color scheme from the color group. The new navigator will not do that but choose whatever specify in the colordb.ini.php placed inside the template folder. Here is the example of the colordb.ini.php.

Thank you! That is a big relief. Looking forward to the release of this, and will put the custom template I made on hold until then.

I am getting the same problem:
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Upload failed please the lookup detail.


There is a missing required file or folder. Here is the valid file structure.


Supporting preview image is s_preview.gif or s_preview.jpg.
Variable is missing in index.htm file.
Invalid comment syntax in index.htm.
index.htm line 1 fixed code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="{XMLCHARSET}"?>
index.htm line 2 fixed code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
index.htm line 3 fixed code: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"{HTMLDIR}>
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Thanks in advance for a reply.

The errors are specific about what is wrong - even more helpful now in that the lines are specified. Check your template code and make sure those lines are exactly like what they are supposed to be. Also make sure your preview image is in the folder, with exactly one of the specified filenames, and that your entire template directory has the same filestructure as in an example template (download one to see).
Re the variable, make sure you have all variables as specified in the guidelines. They all have to be in the template even if you are not using them.

Pairote, please could you provide a key to what these mean, exactly? Here are my best guesses, but it would be helpful if I had a better idea what I am dealing with when trying to set colors for the menu:


Thanks!

To modify colordb.ini.php please go to http://www.rvsitebuilder.com/colordb.html for the detail.

Similar problem to others....

Getting:

Supporting preview image is s_preview.gif or s_preview.jpg.


The preview image IS called what it is supposed to be. I even tried using an image from another template I downloaded that was not altered in any way.


Please help..

John

Managed to get it to upload but not sure how. I did use an image from a template and then put another image over it using GIMP then just saved it. It then uploaded OK but not sure if that was the problem.

Spent ages putting an image in the {side1} area and if worked fine offline but when I uploaded he template the image was no longer there. Anyone else had this problem or know how to fix the problem?

{side1} sensitive lower character

In index.htm have fixed {SIDE1}


please send your attachments file to upload template

Pariote, how do we know what the following means:



Or shall I rather say, how can we find out which piece of code causes the "invalid comment syntax", exactly? ALL the comments I have in my template are as per the Word Document provided, yet I still get this error.

Please submit ticket and attach your template. Our staff will help you fix the issue.

Hi Pariote,

Would it be possible to see what is causing the error? I appreciate that you would fix the problem, but I think for the benefit of everyone it would be great if the template import function does tell us where the problem lies so that we could fix it ourselves as well.

I'm sending you the template as well.
thanx