ptg 434 Chapter 18 Creating Repeating Regions Create a Repeating Region Open the template you want to add a repeating region. Select the content in the template you want to change, or click to place the insertion point where you want it. Click the Insert menu, point to Template Objects, and then click Repeating Region. The New Editable Region dialog box opens. Enter a unique name for the new region. Click OK. The repeating region appears with the name in the tab. NOTE If the area is to contain text, make sure you apply any formatting options, using HTML or CSS to the area before making it an editable area. 5 4 3 2 1 Repeating regions are unlocked areas that allow you to add or delete copies of the repeating regions in a template page. There are two types of repeating regions: region and table. With a repeating region, you can specify the layout you want by duplicating repeating page elements, such as a gallery of photographs. With a repeating table region, you can increase or decrease the rows in a table while keeping the table structure intact. You can define table attributes and set which table cells are editable. 2 3 1 5 4 Did You Know? You can add, delete and change the order of a repeating region entry. Open the template-based page, place the insertion point, and then click the Plus (+), Minus (-), Down Arrow, or Up Arrow buttons to change the entries. You can also use the Repeating Entries submenu on the Edit menu to cut, copy, and paste entries. From the Library of Wow! eBook ptg Chapter 18 Creating Templates 435 Create a Repeating Table Open the template you want to add editable regions. Click to place the insertion point where you want to insert the table. Click the Insert menu, point to Template Objects, and then click Repeating Table. Select from the following options in the Insert Repeating Table dialog box: ◆ Rows. Enter the number of rows for the table. ◆ Columns. Enter the number of columns for the table. ◆ Cell Padding. Specify the number of pixels between a cell’s contents and the cell border. ◆ Cell Spacing. Specify the number of pixels between the table cells. ◆ Width. Enter the width (in pixels) or as a percentage of the browser window’s width. ◆ Border. Enter the width (in pixels) for the table border. ◆ Repeat Rows Of The Table. Specify the table rows you want in the repeating region. ◆ Starting Row. Enter the row number for the first row. ◆ Ending Row. Enter the row number for the last row. ◆ Region Name. Enter a unique name for the table region. Click OK. The repeating table region appears with the name in the table. 5 4 3 2 1 5 4 From the Library of Wow! eBook ptg 436 Chapter 18 Creating Optional Regions Create a Non-Editable Optional Region Open the template you want to add an optional region. Select the item, or an AP element within the template that you want converted into an optional region. Click the Insert menu, point to Template Objects, and then click Optional Region. Click the Basic tab. Enter a unique name for the region. Select the Show By Default check box to toggle between showing or hiding this optional region (default: show). To set val ues for the o ptio nal region, click the Advanced tab. ◆ Click the Use Parameter option, and then select a parameter from the popup, or click the Enter Expression option, and then write a template expression. Click OK. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Content within an optional region may or may not be displayed, depending on certain conditions set by the template designer. Optional regions are just that: optional. Optional regions define content or editable regions that you can turn on or off (be visible or not). Optional regions, therefore, enable designers to show and hide specially marked regions. The template tab of an optional region is preceded by the word If . There are two types of optional regions: non-editable and editable. A non-editable optional region allows you to show or hide the region without the ability to edit the content, while an editable optional region allows you to edit the content. 1 3 2 7 5 8 4 6 From the Library of Wow! eBook ptg Chapter 18 Creating Templates 437 Create an Editable Optional Region Open the template you want to add an optional region. Click to place the insertion point where you want to insert an editable optional region. Click the Insert menu, point to Template Objects, and then click Optional Region. Click the Basic tab. Enter a unique name for the region. Select the Show By default check box to toggle between showing or hiding this optional region. To set val ues for the o ptio nal region, click the Advanced tab. ◆ Click the Use Parameter option, and then select a parameter from the popup, or click the Enter Expression option, and then write a template expression. Click OK. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 7 8 4 Did You Know? You can change the settings for an optional region. Select the optional region, open the Properties panel, and then click the Edit button. You can modify optional regions tem- plate parameters. Open the template- based page, click the Modify menu, click Template Properties, select the property you want to change, edit the value of the property, select or clear the Show check box, select or clear the Allow Nested Templates To Control This check box, and then click OK. Creating an Optional Region A simple use of an optional region is to allow content to either be visi- ble or not in a page based on a template. For example, you maintain a Web site for a garden center called the Green Thumb (now that's original). The site sells three types of items: Flowers, Vegetables, and Garden Equipment. The pages are essentially the same. There will be two editable areas: one describing the product, and another for an image displaying the product. The remainder of the areas (navigation, footers, background, etc.), are all locked… except for one thing. You want a generic image on each of the pages so that the customer can identify the pages for the three products (it could even be a back- ground image contained in an AP element). To solve this problem, you create an optional region, load all three changeable images into the area, and then let the designer of the page decide which image to use. Design By Example From the Library of Wow! eBook ptg 438 Chapter 18 Creating InContext Editing Editable Regions Create an InContext Editing Editable Region Open the Web page that you want to transform into an ICE repeating region. Do any of the following to select the region that you want to make editable: ◆ Select a div, th, or td tag. ◆ Place the insertion point or select content. ◆ Select one editable region in a template. Click the Insert menu, point to InContext Editing, and then click Create Editable Region. Based on your selection in Step 2, take the appropriate action: ◆ If you selected a div, th, or td tag, you’re done. ◆ If you placed the insertion point or selected content, select an option to create a new editable region, and then click OK. ◆ If you selected one editable region in a template, click OK. 4 3 2 1 Adobe InContext Editing (ICE) is an online service that allows users to make simple edits to your web pages without any previous knowledge of HTML code or web editing. Before a user can edit a page, you need to specify what areas on the page that you want to enable users to edit directly in a browser. You can specify areas of a page for users to edit by creating an ICE editable region. An ICE editable region is a pair of HTML tags that includes the ice:editable attribute in the opening tab. These tags transform a non-editable region of a page into an editable one. To edit a page, a user opens the page in a browser, logs in to the InContext Editing service, and then edits the content in the ICE editable region. If you are creating an ICE editable region to a template, the new ICE editable region must be placed within an editable region. For details about using the Adobe ICE online editing service, see the Adobe web site at www.adobe.com . 1 32 4 From the Library of Wow! eBook ptg Chapter 18 Creating Templates 439 Click the blue tab of the editable region to select it. Specify the editing options that you want to make available to users in the Properties panel. The options you select in the Properties panel will be available to users when they edit the page in a browser. Click the File menu, and then click Save. If prompted, click OK for Dreamweaver to add supporting files to your site for ICE. These files need to be uploaded to your server for ICE to work properly. Delete Editable Region Open the Web page with the ICE editable region. Select the editable region that you want to delete. Click the Remove Region button in the region’s Properties panel. Click OK to confirm the removal. 4 3 2 1 8 7 6 5 7 5 Click to display options 6 1 2 3 4 From the Library of Wow! eBook . OK. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Content within an optional region may or may not be displayed, depending on certain conditions set by the template designer. Optional regions are just that: optional. Optional regions define. an optional region is preceded by the word If . There are two types of optional regions: non-editable and editable. A non-editable optional region allows you to show or hide the region without. insertion point or selected content, select an option to create a new editable region, and then click OK. ◆ If you selected one editable region in a template, click OK. 4 3 2 1 Adobe InContext