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All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 5 Contents About this document 21 1 Introduction 25 What is webEdition? 25 How does webEdition work? 25 About webEdition database architecture and content storage 26 About webEdition templates and web page layout 26 About we:tags and content management 26 webEdition users: template administrators and Web page editors 27 The role of template administrators 27 The role of Web site editors 27 The workflow within webEdition 28 What’s new in webEdition 5.0? 28 What’s next... 29 2 User controls 31 Starting webEdition 31 Selecting your language 32 The webEdition main screen 32 The Cockpit 34 MultiTabs 45 Preferences 46 The User interface view 46 The Cache view 47 The File extension view 47 Editor view 48 Live Update view 48 Advanced view 49 The System tab 51 Module activation view 52 Languages view 52 Error handling view 52 Backup view 53 Validation view 53 E-Mail view 54 Notifications view 55 Formmail recipients view 55 System settings for pageLogger 55 The webEdition menu structure 56 The File menu 56 The Cockpit menu 60 The Modules menu 60 The Extras menu 60 webEdition User Guide 6 Contents The Help menu 61 The explorer menu 62 Search function 64 Simple search 64 Advanced search 65 webEdition control elements 67 The fileselector 67 fileselector - the functions 67 Advanced editor plug-in 69 Edit templates with the editor plugin 69 Edit other files with the editor 70 Add editors 72 Edit plugin editors 73 Viewing modes: standard and Super-Easy-Edit Mode 75 The editing screen in standard mode 75 The editing screen in Super-Easy-Edit Mode 76 3 Working with documents – the role of the editor 81 The views when working with documents in normal mode 81 The Documents Properties view 82 The Documents Edit view 83 The Documents Information view 84 The Documents Preview view 85 The Scheduler PRO view 86 The Documents Validation view 86 Working with webEdition pages 88 Creating a new webEdition document 88 Saving, “unpublishing”, and deleting documents 90 "Unpublishing" a file 90 Deleting documents, templates, objects, or classes 91 Overview of all unpublished pages 92 Modifying and updating a document 93 Creating a new document directory 93 Copying the contents of one directory to another 93 Rebuilding static and dynamic Web pages 94 Using the Import feature 94 Importing local files 95 Importing files from your server 98 Importing generic XML data 99 Importing CSV files 100 webEdition XML import 101 Working with graphical documents 103 Uploading an image 103 Importing more than one image 105 The image Properties view 107 The image Edit view 108 The images Information view 110 The images Thumbnails view: thumbnail formatting 110 Associating an image with a thumbnail format 112 Displaying your photo album 113 Working with non-graphical documents 114 Editing HTML pages 114 Using Flash movies 116 Using Quicktime movies 117 Editing JavaScripts 117 Creating an XML document 118 Standard 5.0.1 June 2007 Contents 7 Creating a cascading style sheet (CSS) 118 Other files 119 Features in the Options menu 120 Document types 120 Categories 122 Changing user name and/or password 123 How an editor works within a template: using template input fields, lists and menus 124 Single-line input box (<we:input type="text">) 124 Date (<we:input type="date">) 125 Checkbox (<we:input type="checkbox">) 125 Input choice box (<we:input type="choice">) 125 Text box (<we:textarea>) 125 Lists (<we:block>) 132 Link list (<we:linklist>) 133 Select box (<we:select>) 135 Image field (<we:img>) 136 Movie fields (<we:flashmovie> and <we:quicktime>) 136 Editing documents in seeMode 136 The navigation tool 139 Using the navigation tool 139 The menus 140 Creating new navigation items 141 Creating a new navigation folder 145 Rules for the highlighting 148 Tags for the navigation tool 148 we:navigation 148 we:navigationEntry 149 we:navigationEntries 149 we:navigationField 150 we:navigationWrite 150 Example 150 4 Creating templates—the role of the administrator 153 What is a template? 153 What are we:tags? 153 How do I use we:tags? 153 What is Caching? 156 The five views when working with templates 158 The template Properties view 158 The Templates Edit view 160 The Templates Information view 161 The Templates Preview Editmode view 161 The Templates Preview view 162 Creating Mastertemplates 163 Including templates 165 Template Rebuild 165 Creating templates 166 Creating templates using webEdition 166 Creating a new template 167 Saving a template 167 Updating/modifying a template 167 Deleting a template 168 Adopting an existing Web site 168 Integrating your own we:tags 169 Creating templates from documents made in HTML editing programs 170 webEdition User Guide 8 Contents Tags for the navigation tool 170 we:navigation 170 we:navigationEntry 170 we:navigationEntries 171 we:navigationField 171 we:navigationWrite 172 Example 172 Features for developing webEdition templates 173 Link lists (<we:link> and <we:linklist>) 174 Summary pages/areas 175 Creating a photo album 178 Producing and changing pages and objects from the front end 181 Including documents (<we:include>) 184 Search feature 185 E-Mailing a form 186 Working with HTML frames 187 Creating templates with the Dreamweaver Extension 187 Installing the Dreamweaver Extension 187 Starting the Dreamweaver Extension 187 Characteristics of the Extension in Dreamweaver 189 Importing a Website 191 Generating templates automatically 192 Using a dedicated template 192 RSS feeds 194 Integrating external RSS feed 194 webEdition pages as RSS feed 195 The Sidebar 196 we:tags for the Sidebar 196 Javascript commands for the Sidebar 197 5 Banner Management 201 What is the webEdition Banner Management? 201 General information and navigation 201 Opening the Banner Management 202 The Banner Module main page: drop-down menus 203 The banner explorer menu and main page 203 The banner Properties view 204 The banner Placement view 205 The banner Statistics view 206 The banner group Properties view 207 6 Creating banners 209 Setting the properties for a banner 209 Placing a banner on a Web page 212 Viewing and sorting banner statistics 215 Sorting statistics 216 Creating banner groups 216 7 Practical examples for template developers 219 What tags are required to display a banner on a webEdition page? 219 What format is used to display banners? 219 Displaying a banner with JavaScript 219 Displaying a banner in an iframe 220 How can I display specific banners on a page? 220 How can I display a banner without a link? 220 Standard 5.0.1 June 2007 Contents 9 How can I use files other than /webEdition/getBanner.php and /webEdition/bannerclick.php? 220 How can I display webEdition banners on external Web pages? 220 How can I use the Banner Module to gather statistics about pages that do not display a banner? 222 How can I provide banner statistics for my customers? 222 8 User Management: Introduction 225 What is the webEdition User Management? 225 Access control feature 225 General information and navigation 225 Opening the User Management 226 Drop-down menu commands 227 Working with the User Management 227 Creating new users: administrators and editors 227 Changing user settings 229 Deleting users 229 9 Advanced Export 231 What is the webEdition Export? 231 General information and navigation 231 Start Export function 232 Export explorermenu 232 The menus 233 The Export-dropdownmenu 233 Help-dropdownmenu 233 Export Module views 233 The property view 233 The Options view 234 The Details view 236 Using the export 237 Define a new export 237 Exportgroups 238 10 Glossary: Introduction 239 What is the webEdition Glossary? 239 General information and navigation 240 Starting the glossary 240 Glossary module explorer menu 241 Menus 241 The Glossary menu 241 The Options menu 242 The Help dropdown menu 242 11 Using the Glossary 245 Adding entries to an existing glossary 245 Adding hyperlinks 246 Adding languages 248 Glossary check on a webEdition page 250 Labelling glossary entries directly in the text 252 Managing your glossary entries 252 12 Spell Checker: Introduction 255 What is the webEdition Spell Checker? 255 webEdition User Guide 10 Contents General information and navigation 255 Open module settings 256 The spell checking 257 Using the Spell checker 258 Spelling check 258 Adding new dictionaries 259 User dictionary 262 New attributes for we:tags 263 13 Voting Module: Introduction 265 What is the Voting? 265 General information and tips on navigation 265 Open Voting screen 266 Voting Module Explorer menu 266 The menus 267 The Voting dropdown menu 267 Help-dropdown menu 267 Voting views 267 The Properties view 267 The Inquiry view 268 The Options view 269 The Result view 269 Using the Voting functions 270 Create a new Vote 270 Vote groups 272 Vote result 273 14 Practical examples for the template design 277 Creating a template for a Vote 277 Displaying the Vote result 278 Summary page for multiple Votes 280 15 Using the Scheduler PRO 283 Scheduler PRO: general information and navigation 283 Scheduler PRO view 283 Date and time considerations 285 Summary page requirement 285 Selecting a task 285 Publishing, unpublishing and deleting a document 286 Changing a document type 286 Changing the categories for a document 286 Changing the directory document 287 Scheduling a task 287 Scheduling an item once 287 Scheduling an hourly task 287 Scheduling a daily task 288 Scheduling a weekly task 288 Scheduling a monthly task 288 Scheduling a yearly task 288 Options when saving a scheduled task 289 16 List of terms and abbreviations 291 Index 293 Standard 5.0.1 June 2007