[paid accounts] Making the Theme Layer Viewable

[s2flexisquared]

Very often the person helping you will need to see all your code. The easiest way to show them is to make your theme layer viewable by people other than just yourself.

1. Make sure you have this line at the top of your layer, near the other layerinfo lines:
   
   layerinfo "source_viewable" = 1;
   
   If it isn't there already, add it.
2. Compile the layer. (Problems compiling? See the note at the end of this post.)
3. Go to your Layers page. Find your layer in the list. In the LayerID column, there will be a number next to your layer. This is your layer's id. Click it.
4. Now you are on the Layer Browse page. Copy the URL of this page and give it to whoever is helping you with your code. Should look like this:
   
   http://www.livejournal.com/customize/advanced/layerbrowse.bml?id=4472608
   The number in red will be your layer id.

Note: If your code is messed up and not compiling, adding the line to make it viewable will not do anything, since code that doesn't compile doesn't get saved. In this case you have some options:

• Take out whatever changes you made that caused the compilation errors to get it back into a state that compiles, then add the line to make it viewable.
• OR copy your entire layer into a text file and email it to whoever is helping you.
• OR if you don't have much code in your layer (one or two brief functions), copy the whole thing, convert it so that it will display properly, and post it in your entry behind cut tags or in a comment.

Last updated: February 7, 2006