Topic 2: The Wizard.html file

The file Wizard.html is essential to the proper operation of the Deployment Wizard. When a custom HTML template file is not specified (this is the normal case), the Deployment Wizard uses the information in Wizard.html as a default template for building the proximate HTML output file. If Wizard.html became corrupted, then the Deployment Wizard might refuse to create output files, or might create output files that did not work properly.

Wizard.html serves a second purpose: it is the file that contains the information that you need in order to create a custom HTML template file.

However, since Wizard.html is so important to the operation of Deployment Wizard, do not edit Wizard.html directly. Instead,

• Copy Wizard.html to a working file named something like DefaultTemplate.html.
• Use this new file, DefaultTemplate.html, as the basis for your custom HTML template files.

There are a few situations in which you might want to modify Wizard.html. For example, if you wanted to add the same particular set of HTML elements or JavaScript items to every web page that you created using the Deployment Wizard, then you could add those changes to Wizard.html itself. Then you would not have to specify a custom HTML template file each time you created a new web page in the Deployment Wizard. However, even in this situation, in terms of file management, you are probably better off making the changes in a custom HTML template file rather than in Wizard.html. In any case, if you do modify Wizard.html, remember to make a backup copy first so that you can restore it to its original state if necessary!