MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-USING DREAMWEAVER Use Manual page 122

Reusing assets in another site
The Assets panel shows all the assets (of recognized types) in your current site. To use an asset
from the current site in another site, you must copy it to the other site. You can copy an
individual asset, a set of individual assets, or an entire Favorites folder at once.
You might need to locate the file in the Files panel that corresponds to an asset in the Assets panel
before you transfer the asset to or from your remote site.
Note: The Files panel might show a different site from the one that the Assets panel shows. This is
because the Assets panel is associated with the active document.
To locate an asset's file in the Files panel:
In the Assets panel (Window > Assets), select the category on the left side of the panel for the
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type of asset you want to find.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the asset's name or icon in the Assets
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panel, then select Locate in Site from the context menu.
Note: Locate in Site is unavailable for colors and URLs, which do not correspond to files in
the site.
The Files panel opens, with the asset file selected. The Locate in Site command locates the file
corresponding to the asset itself; it does not locate a file that uses that asset.
To copy assets from the Asset panel's Site list or Favorites list to another site:
In the Assets panel (Window > Assets), select the category on the left side of the panel for the
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type of asset you want to copy.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the asset or assets to copy, select Copy to
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Site, then select the target site name from the submenu. (The submenu lists all the sites you've
defined.)
Note: In the Favorites list, you can copy a Favorites folder as well as individual assets. For
information about Favorites folders, see
The assets are copied to the specified site, into locations corresponding to their locations in the
current site. Dreamweaver creates new folders in the target site's hierarchy as needed. The assets
are also added to the specified site's Favorites list.
When you open a document in the target site, the Assets panel switches to that site, and shows the
copied asset.
Note: If the asset you copied is a color or a URL, it appears only in the other site's Favorites list, not in
the other site's Site list. This is because there is no file corresponding to the color or URL, so there's
no file to copy into the other site.
Related topics
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"Viewing assets in the Assets panel" on page 117
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"Refreshing the Assets panel" on page 118
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"Selecting and editing assets" on page 121
122 Chapter 5: Managing Site Assets and Libraries
"Grouping assets in a Favorites folder" on page 125.