Generating Site Reports

Generating Site Reports

A large part of site management, especially if you are managing a team working on the site, is keeping up with all of the things that are happening to the site. For example, let's say that you want to know which pages each of your team members is working on at the moment. Dreamweaver allows you to get a report of the checked out pages, and who has checked them out. Similarly, you can get reports on many other aspects of your site, listed in Table 16.1 . Dreamweaver splits reports into two categories: Workflow, with reports detailing who has worked on the site and when; and HTML Reports, which search through files on your site looking for HTML errors.

Table 16.1.

Dreamweaver Reports
R EPORT N AME	D ESCRIPTION
Workflow Category
Checked Out By	Reports file name and the name of the team member who has checked it out.
Design Notes	Shows the contents of the Design Note for files that have them.
Recently Modified	Shows the last modified date for the selected files, based on search criteria you specify.
HTML Reports Category
Combinable Nested Font Tags	Finds markup with unnecessarily nested <font> tags.
Accessibility	Checks the selected pages for adherence to accessibility guidelines.
Missing ALT Text	Flags missing alternate text attributes for images on your pages.
Redundant Nested Tags	Reports unnecessarily repeated nested tags, i.e., <b><b> example text</b></b> .
Removable Empty Tags	Shows any empty tags that can be safely removed.
Untitled Documents	Reveals documents where you have forgotten to enter a title.

Some reports allow you to enter parameters for the report that allow you to widen or narrow the criteria used for the report. All the reports, however, allow you to report on just the current document; the entire current local site; just selected files in the site; or files within a selected folder in the site.

To get site reports:

1.	Choose Site > Reports. The Reports dialog appears ( Figure 16.21 ). Figure 16.21. Specify the kind of site report you want in the Reports dialog.
2.	From the Report on pop-up menu, choose the scope of the report. Your choices are Current Document, Entire Current Local Site, Selected Files in Site, or Folder.
3.	In the Select reports list, check the report or reports that you want to run. If the report you have selected allows you to choose report criteria, the Report Settings button becomes active.
4.	(Optional) For reports that allow additional settings, click Report Settings, then complete the resulting settings dialog. Each report that allows additional settings has a different criteria dialog. Figure 16.22 shows, for example, the criteria dialog for the Recently Modified report. Figure 16.22. The Recently Modified dialog, brought up by the Report Settings button, allows you to specify the scope of the report. Other reports will have different Report Settings dialogs. After you click OK in the settings dialog, you return to the Reports dialog.
5.	Click Run. Dreamweaver runs the report and shows the report output in the Site Reports tab of the Results panel below the Property Inspector ( Figure 16.23 ). Figure 16.23. The report appears in the Results panel.