WEB EDITOR SPECIAL PAGES ONLINE EDITABLE PAGE

Overview

The ONLINE EDITABLE PAGE is a page containing editable area. The content of this area can be modified online through a web browser.

Please, note that we have a Video Tutorial available on this topic. You can check it out at EZGenerator Tutorials.

To add online editable page to your site:

Click the Web module icon in the Navigation Bar.
From the File menu, select Add.
In the Add Page window, select Online Editable Page for a page type.
Set any other options you want and press OK.

Basics

The Online Editable Page is a page containing editable area. You can modify this Editable area online using a WYSIWYG rich-text editor. The edit mode is protected and can be accessed by Enable/Disable button. Both Editable area and Enable/Disable button can be inserted in your Online Editable page from Fields panel. If you need more than one editable areas on same page, go to Fields panel and drag-and-drop more than one editable area fields in your page.

Online editable page edit mode can be protected directly (DEPRECIATED) or by Central Admin.

To protect edit mode directly, you have to set Unprotected, Admin section controlled by Page Password and define password in Page Settings panel (Protection and Password properties), and password prompts in Editable Page Settings panel (see below).

To protect edit mode using Central Admin, you have to set Unprotected, Admin section controlled by Central Admin in Page Settings panel (Protection property) and define Login page in Login property (optional). In this case you define users in Central Admin interface.

If you protect your Online Editable Page, both access to page and to edit mode will be controlled by Central Admin.

If your Online Editable page is controlled by Central Admin and you want to place Enable/Disable link on another page, insert hyperlink with Link Type: internal, navigate to your Online editable page and select enable/disable link.

Editable Settings

The following properties are available in the Editable Page Settings panel:

Main

Show messages (check box) - Every time you enable/disable your online editable page, messages are shown as set below. If you don't want these messages to be shown, uncheck this box.
Editing Enabled (text box) - Type the message that will be displayed when Editing is enabled.
Editing Disabled (text box) - Type the message that will be displayed when Editing is disabled.

Editor

Editor (check box) - This option sets the html editor that is to be used in edit mode. You can select between two html editors - HTMLAREA and Innova Editor. For Innova Editor you can also select language.

Access

These two options below are applicable only when the online editable page is directly protected (the case is explained above). Direct protection is depreciated and supported only for compatibility with old EZGenerator versions. Recommended is Central Admin controlled protection.

Pwd Prompt (text box) - Type the message that will be displayed in the Password Prompt dialog window.
Pwd Not Valid (text box) - Type the message that will be displayed if wrong password is filled in.

Accessible Fields And Special Objects

The following special objects are available in the Fields panel:

Sitemap - This object generates a sitemap containing text links to each of the pages displayed in the main navigation menu.
AB Sitemap - This object generates an index (sorted in alphabetical order) for all pages in the site.
Menu Combobox - This object generates a combo box containing links to each of the the pages displayed in the main navigation menu.
Editable Area - Creates Editable Area.
Nopagefooter - Creates NOPAGEFOOTER macros, which disables footer on current page.
Enable/Disable button - Creates Enable/Disable button.
Tell a Friend - This object generates link to Tell a Friend page.
Logged info - This object generates logged info macro in your site - %LOGGED_INFO(logged as,central admin,logout)%. This macro is applicable for protected pages or pages with admin screen (as Online Editable Page, Calendar, etc) and will show username of the logged user along with logout link. The four parameters inside the () are labels. If needed you can translate them in another language. Check Page Protection for more info on page protection.