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.

This tab is represented in the compact view by the icon (see Compact view of tabs (→Documentation FirstSpirit SiteArchitect)).

Default values: This icon is used to open a dialog listing the defined input forms for this template. Default settings for the individual fields can be edited here. See also page Default values.

For information on the other icons, please refer to page Composition of templates, paragraph “General functions”.

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.