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Maintain Site Structure

Overview

This is the reference documentation for the administration menu item: Site Structure→Site Structure

This function is used to maintain the site structure of the site you are logged into. The site structure is the overall structure of the web site. The site structure is built of site elements.

Site elements are menu, frameset, URL, and business process.

 

For frameset and menu elements you can add new elements where the added element will appear as a child to the frameset/menu element in the site structure.

Child elements to a menu is menu items in the menu and child elements to a frameset is frames for the frameset.

Tree structure page

The grid shows information about the current site structure.

For each element this information is shown: an icon and individual information dependent on the element type of the parent element.

Icons for element types

Each of the site elements have an icon representing the type of element, what type of parent it is located under and a status indication.

The status indication is a small graphics representing the following states

Icon Element type
Site Root
Frameset
URL - as child of a frameset
Menu
Business Process - as child of a frameset
Business Process
URL

Information shown for records in the tree structure

Parent Element Type Information
Site root [site element]
Frameset [frame name] - [site element]
Menu [sequence] / [align] - [site element]
[site element]

The name of the site element

[frame name]

The name of the frame the child element will populate when the frameset is loaded

[align]

The alignment of the menu item in the menu

[sequence]

The sequence of the menu item in the menu

Add

Select the place in the structure where you want to add a site element and press the Add button. The wizard function Add Element will be started.

The new site element will be added in the structure as a child of the selected element. Only root, framesets, and menus can have child elements added.

Update

Select the element you want to update and press the update button. The Update Element function is started.

You can't update the Site Root Element.

Remove

An element can be removed from the site structure when you select the element and press the Remove button. You will then be asked to confirm the removal.

When confirming a removal of an element, you also confirm the removal of the element's children. Note that the elements are not deleted, they are just removed from that location in the site structure.

If the removed element is added to the site structure again, all its children will also be added.

View

Detailed information for an element is shown when you select the element and then press the View button.

Alias

In order to assign an alias to an element in the site structure you select the element and then press the Alias button.

An alias is used to make an easy reference to a specific site element.

Roles

Select an element in the site structure and press the Roles button to load the assign roles function in a pop up window.

Placing the cursor over the arrow on the right part of the button opens a submenu, where you can either chose assign, which has the exact same effect as pressing the button or "Recursive add", which provides the option to add a number of roles to the element you have selected in the site structure tree and all of the elements, which are part of the sub-tree for the selected element.

Change Presentation

Select a site element in the tree and press the "Change Presentation" button to change the presentation for the selected element.

Translate

The text shown for the site element can be translated so that the menus can be loaded in several different languages.

Select the site element you want to translate and press the Translate button.

The translate button will only be shown if there have been specified at least one language in the site.

This opens a pop-up window where you can specify the alternative text for each language you have defined in the site.

The pop-up window shows a section containing the base values of the two fields that can be translated.

Following this, a drop-down box can be used to select the language you want to translate to.

If no translation exists for the language, a text stating so is shown at the side of the drop-down box.

If a translation exists, the translated values are shown in the input fields.

Use the "Apply" button to save the current translation.

If a translation exists, a "Delete" button is shown - use this to delete the current translation.

Pressing "Done" closes the pop-up window. If any changes have been made which is not saved, a warning message is shown.

Changing the language in the drop-down window reloads the translation. Any unsaved changes will be discarded.