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   4  <title>Static Content - Edit</title>
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   7  <body><strong class="title">Static Content  : Edit a Static Content Item</strong>
   8  <table width="100%"  border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
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  10            <td width="16%" align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" class="datalabel">Purpose:</td>
  11            <td width="84%" valign="top" class="data"><p>This page lets 
  12                      edit a Static Content Item.</p>
  13                 <strong>Details</strong>
  14                 <ul>
  15                      <li> <strong>Title</strong>: Type here is the title
  16                           of the Static Content. This is the title as it will appear
  17                      on the page when displayed.</li>
  18                      <li><strong>Title Alias</strong>:
  19                           This field is optional.</li>
  20                      <li><strong>Text</strong>:
  21                                Type here the content you want to display. </li>
  22            </ul></td>
  23       </tr>
  24       <tr>
  25            <td align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" class="datalabel">Usage:</td>
  26            <td valign="top" class="data">n/a</td>
  27       </tr>
  28       <tr>
  29            <td align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" class="datalabel">Default State: </td>
  30            <td valign="top" class="data">n/a</td>
  31       </tr>
  32       <tr>
  33            <td align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" class="datalabel">Parameters:</td>
  34            <td valign="top" class="data"><p>The Attributes Area for Static Content consists of five tabs:
  35                      Publishing, Images, Parameters, Meta Info and Link to Menu.
  36                      </p>
  37                 <p><strong>(1) Publishing</strong></p>
  38                 <ul>
  39                      <li><strong>Published</strong>: Check
  40                           the box to let the item show on your site.</li>
  41                      <li><strong>Access
  42                           Level</strong>: Choose who will be able to view this
  43                           content. Public, registered or special.</li>
  44                      <li><strong>Author Alias</strong>:
  45                           You can publish the author&#39;s name for a piece of
  46                           content. You can choose a Registered user as displayed
  47                           through the dropdown or type any name there (an author
  48                           that does not have an account or content created by
  49                           many authors as a group).</li>
  50                      <li><strong>Change
  51                           Creator</strong>: This allows you to assign ownership
  52                           of this content to another registered user.</li>
  53                      <li><strong>Ordering</strong>:
  54                           Select the order in which this content is listed relative
  55                           to others in this Category. The choices available in
  56                           the dropdown will show once changes to the item are
  57                           saved or applied.</li>
  58                      <li><strong>Override Created Date</strong>:
  59                           This shows the created date for the content. You can
  60                           change the date if necessary.</li>
  61                      <li><strong>Start Publishing</strong>:
  62                           Select the date when this document is to be published
  63                           on the web site.</li>
  64                      <li><strong>Finish
  65                           Publishing</strong>: If desired, you can set the date
  66                           when your content is to be expired.</li>
  67                      <li><strong>Content ID</strong>:
  68                           This is the ID of the content in the database.</li>
  69                      <li><strong>State</strong>:
  70                           This shows the current state of the document. It is
  71                           not editable.</li>
  72                      <li><strong>Hits</strong>:
  73                           This gives the number of times this content was viewed.
  74                           The &#39;Reset
  75                           Hit Count&#39; button allows you to reset the counter
  76                           to zero.</li>
  77                      <li><strong>Revised</strong>: This shows the number
  78                                of edits this content has undergone.</li>
  79                      <li><strong>Created</strong>:
  80                                     This is the date this Content Item was created.</li>
  81                      <li><strong>By</strong>:
  82                                          This is the name of the user that created
  83                                          the Content Item.</li>
  84                      <li><strong>Last
  85                                               Modified</strong>: This is the date
  86                                               when this Content Item was last
  87                                               modified, if ever.</li>
  88                      <li><strong>By</strong>:
  89                                                    This is the name of the user
  90                           that last modified this content, if ever. </li>
  91                 </ul>               <p><strong>(2) Images</strong></p>
  92                 <ul>
  93                      <li><strong>Sub-folder</strong>: Choose
  94                           here the sub-folder you want to get the images from. These
  95                      are in images/stories/.</li>
  96                      <li><strong>Gallery Images</strong>:
  97                           This dropdown lists the images available in the specific
  98                           sub-folder. Highlight one or multiple image name(s)
  99                           and click on the &#39;Add&#39; button.The
 100                           name(s) will display in the Content Images dropdown.</li>
 101                      <li><strong>Content
 102                           Images</strong>:The &#39;up&#39; and &#39;down&#39; buttons
 103                           determine the order of images if there are more than
 104                           one on this page. The images will display relative to
 105                           the instances of {mosimage} tags in your content.</li>
 106                      <li><strong>Edit the image
 107                           selected</strong>Select an image in &#39;Content Images&#39;.</li>
 108                      <li><strong>Source</strong>:
 109                                Displays the default name of the image highlighted.
 110                                You may edit that name.</li>
 111                      <li><strong>Image Align</strong>:
 112                                     Lets you choose between None, center, left
 113                           or right.</li>
 114                      <li><strong>Alt Text</strong>:
 115                                          Lets you choose an Alt Text for the image.</li>
 116                      <li><strong>Border</strong>:
 117                                               Type here the number of pixels you
 118                           want the border to be around the image.</li>
 119                      <li><strong>Caption</strong>:
 120                                                    Type here a caption for the
 121                           image.</li>
 122                      <li><strong>Caption Align</strong>:
 123                                                         Lets you choose between
 124                           None, center, left or right.</li>
 125                      <li><strong>Width</strong>:
 126                                                              Type here a number
 127                           in pixels to override the width of the image<strong>.</strong></li>
 128                      <li><strong>Apply</strong>:
 129                                                              Click on this button
 130                           to apply all the parameters defined for this
 131                                                              image</li>
 132                 </ul>               <p><strong>(3) Parameters</strong></p>
 133                 <ul>
 134                      <li><strong>Menu Image</strong>: A small image to place
 135                      to the right of your Menu Item. Images must be in images/stories.</li>
 136                      <li><strong>Page
 137                           Title</strong>: Hides or shows the Page Title as defined
 138                           in &#39;Details&#39;<strong>.</strong></li>
 139                      <li><strong>Page Class Suffix</strong>:
 140                           Allows you to set customized styles for this page. The
 141                           suffix you type here is automatically added to the CSS
 142                           classes for this page, and will have to be defined in
 143                           your template&#39;s
 144                           CSS style sheet for usage.</li>
 145                      <li><strong>Back Button</strong>:
 146                           Controls whether to show or hide a &quot;Back&quot; text
 147                           link that would appear on the bottom of the page and
 148                           return the user to the previously viewed page. The pull
 149                           down lets select &#39;Use
 150                           Global&#39; to use the parameter as defined globally
 151                           through the Site-&gt;Global Configuration, &#39;Hide&#39; or &#39;Show&#39;.For
 152                           each of the following seven items listed below, you
 153                           can use the option selected in the Global Configuration
 154                           settings (Site -&gt; Global Configuration) by selecting &#39;Use
 155                           Global&#39; or
 156                           you can override the Global Configuration setting by
 157                           selecting &#39;Show&#39; or &#39;Hide.&#39; Overriding
 158                           the settings here for items will not affect the Global
 159                           Configuration settings and will not affect the settings
 160                           on the rest of the site.</li>
 161                      <li><strong>Item Rating</strong>:
 162                           Hides or shows ratings given to home page items by your
 163                           site&#39;s users.</li>
 164                      <li><strong>Author
 165                                Names</strong>: Hides or shows the names of authors
 166                                of items.</li>
 167                      <li><strong>Created
 168                                     Date and Time</strong>: Hides or shows the
 169                                     date and time that items were created.</li>
 170                      <li><strong>Modified Date and
 171                                          Time</strong>:
 172                                          Hides or shows the date and time that
 173                                          items were last modified.</li>
 174                      <li><strong>PDF
 175                                               Icon</strong>: Hides or shows the
 176                                               icon and link to the PDF version
 177                                               of items.</li>
 178                      <li><strong>Print Icon</strong>:
 179                                                    Hides or shows the icon and
 180                           link to the printer-friendly format of
 181                                                    items.</li>
 182                      <li><strong>Email
 183                                                         Icon</strong>: Hides or
 184                                                         shows the icon and link
 185                                                         to the page that enables
 186                                                         users to email items to
 187                                                         others.</li>
 188                 </ul>               <p><strong>(4) Meta Info</strong></p>
 189                 <ul>
 190                      <li><strong>Description</strong>:
 191                           This information is inserted in the headers of your content.
 192                      It is commonly used by search engines.</li>
 193                      <li><strong>Keywords</strong>:
 194                           These keywords are also related to the header information
 195                           provided for search engines, but provide too a much
 196                           more important function. These keywords drive the What&#39;s
 197                           Related Module that provides automatic links to other
 198                      Content Items that shares a similar keyword. </li>
 199                      <li><strong>Add Sect/Cat/Title</strong>:&nbsp; Clicking
 200                           on this button is a convenient way to insert the content&#39;s
 201                           information into the keywords field, including the content&#39;s
 202                      title, section name, and category name. </li>
 203                 </ul>               <p><strong>(5) Link to Menu</strong> -- This
 204                      will create a &#39;Link - Static Content Item&#39; in the
 205                      menu you select.NOTE: There is no other way to show this
 206                      content on your site. The link may also be created through
 207                 the Menu Manager.</p>
 208                 <ul>
 209                      <li><strong>Select a Menu</strong>: Highlight
 210                           here one the menus defined for your site.</li>
 211                      <li><strong>Menu Item
 212                           Name</strong>: The name of the Menu as it will appear
 213                           on your site.</li>
 214                      <li><strong>Link to Menu</strong>: Click on
 215                           this button to create the Menu Item.Existing Menu ItemsThis
 216                           displays a list of all &#39;Link - Static Content Item&#39; Menu
 217                           Items referencing this static content.</li>
 218                 </ul></td>
 219       </tr>
 220       <tr>
 221            <td align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" class="datalabel">Toolbar Icons: </td>
 222            <td valign="top" class="data"><ul>
 223                 <li><strong>Preview</strong>: Opens a new
 224                           window to preview the content as you would in the Front-end of
 225                      your site.</li>
 226                 <li><strong>Upload</strong>: Opens a new window which lets
 227                                you upload a file or an image from your computer
 228                      to the images/stories folder.</li>
 229                 <li><strong>Save</strong>: Saves the content and returns to
 230                           Manager.</li>
 231                 <li><strong>Apply</strong>: Saves the content and keep the
 232                                content displayed to edit.</li>
 233                 <li><strong>Cancel</strong>:
 234                                     Cancels the action. Any modification is lost.
 235                      If opened to edit, the Static Content Item remains
 236                                     checked-in.</li>
 237            </ul></td>
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