Dreamweaver

Use reports to test your site

You can run site reports on workflow or HTML attributes, including accessibility, for the current document, selected files, or the entire site. You can also use the Reports command to check links in your site.

Workflow reports can improve collaboration among members of a web team. You can run workflow reports that display who has checked out a file, which files have Design Notes associated with them, and which files have been modified recently. You can further refine Design Note reports by specifying name/value parameters.

Note: You must have a remote site connection defined to run the workflow reports.

HTML reports enable you to compile and generate reports for several HTML attributes. You can check combinable nested font tags, accessibility, missing Alt text, redundant nested tags, removable empty tags, and untitled documents.

After you run a report, you can save it as an XML file, then import it into a template instance or a database or spreadsheet and print it, or display it on a website.

Note: You can also add different report types to Dreamweaver through the Adobe Dreamweaver Exchange website.

Run reports to test a site

  1. Select Site > Reports.
    If you want to run only an accessibility report for your site, you can select File > Check Page > Check Accessibility and the report appears in the Site Reports panel of the Results panel group.
  2. Select what to report on from the Report On pop‑up menu and set any of the report types to run (workflow or HTML).

    You cannot run a Selected Files In Site report unless you have already selected files in the Files panel.

  3. If you selected a workflow report, click Report Settings. Otherwise, skip this step.
    Note: If you selected more than one workflow report, you need to click the Report Settings button for each report. Select a report, click Report Settings, and enter settings; then, repeat the process for any other workflow reports.
    Checked Out By
    Creates a report listing all documents checked out by a specific team member. Enter the name of a team member, and then click OK to return to the Reports dialog box.

    Design Notes
    Creates a report listing all Design Notes for selected documents or for the site. Enter one or more name and value pairs, then select comparison values from the corresponding pop‑up menus. Click OK to return to the Reports dialog box.

    Recently Modified
    Creates a report listing files that have changed during a specified time frame. Enter date ranges and location for the files you want to view.

  4. If you selected an HTML report, select from the following reports:
    Combinable Nested Font Tags
    Creates a report that lists all nested font tags that can be combined to clean up the code.

    For example, <font color="#FF0000"><font size="4">STOP!</font></font> is reported.

    Missing Alt Text
    Creates a report listing all the img tags that don’t have alternate text.

    Alternate text appears in place of images for text-only browsers or for browsers that have been set to download images manually. Screen readers read alternate text, and some browsers display alternate text when the user mouses over the image.

    Checked Out By
    Creates a report listing all documents checked out by a specific team member.

    Accessibility
    Creates a report detailing conflicts between your content and the Section 508 accessibility guidelines of the 1998 Rehabilitation Act.

    Redundant Nested Tags
    Creates a report detailing nested tags that should be cleaned up.

    For example, <i> The rain <i> in</i> Spain stays mainly in the plain</i> is reported.

    Removable Empty Tags
    Creates a report detailing all empty tags that can be removed to clean up the HTML code.

    For example, you may have deleted an item or image in Code view, but left behind the tags that applied to that item.

    Untitled Documents
    Creates a report listing all the untitled documents found within the selected parameters. Dreamweaver reports all documents with default titles, duplicate titles, or missing title tags.

  5. Click Run to create the report.

    Depending on the type of report you run, you might be prompted to save your file, define your site, or select a folder (if you haven’t already done so).

    A list of results appears in the Site Reports panel (in the Results panel group).

Use and save a report

  1. Run a report (see the previous procedure).
  2. In the Site Reports panel, do any of the following to view the report:

    • Click the column heading you want to sort results by.

      You can sort by filename, line number, or description. You can also run several different reports and keep the different reports open.

    • Select any line in the report, then click the More Info button on the left side of the Site Reports panel for an description of the problem.

      The information appears in the Reference panel.

    • Double-click any line in the report to view the corresponding code in the Document window.

      Note: If you are in Design view, Dreamweaver changes the display to split view to show the reported problem in code.
  3. Click Save Report to save the report.

    When you save a report, you can import it into an existing template file. You can then import the file into a database or spreadsheet and print it, or use the file to display the report on a website.

    After running HTML reports, use the Clean Up HTML command to correct any HTML errors the reports listed.