Form tab

The way the section looks in the Page Store is defined on the “Form” tab.

Since section templates are used to add the dynamic content of a page, all input components needed for a section type are defined here. Any number of sections can be added in each content area of a page. There are also usually several different section templates available for the different types of potential content found on a page.

The input components are defined inside <CMS_MODULE> tags and are available to editors to maintain the actual editorial content of a page.

Line numbering can be shown or hidden using the icon in the top right-hand corner of the workspace for templates.

Edit default values: This icon is used to open the dialog for editing default values.

Search in templates

The following icons are used to run searches in templates:

Find (Ctrl+F): Opens a window in which the user can search for text.

Replace (Ctrl+R): Opens a window in which the user can search for and replace text.

Next occurrence (F3): Jumps to the next search result.

Previous occurrence (Shift+F3): Jumps to the last search result.

Undo (Ctrl+Z): Undoes the last change.

Redo (Ctrl+Y): Restores changes that have been undone.

Form

DTD validation is carried out when saving GUI.XML. Incorrect formatting would be disastrous here; GUI.XML cannot be saved in that case. Other errors are just displayed.

If a preview for GUI.XML is requested in the locked state then the changes are saved automatically beforehand. (A new version is not created – that only occurs when unlocking!)

Code completion makes it easy to insert all available input components along with the corresponding parameters.