Page Configuration
1 How to edit Banner
Edit banner: in eXo WCM, the banner is divided into two parts: the left banner and right banner. You can edit both of them.
We can edit a banner by one of two following ways:
1.1 Using Portal
The traditional way to edit content is by using the portal and edit portlets:
1. Open the form to edit banner: Click the
icon on the right corner or go to
Exo Start-->
Administration-->
Advanced-->
Edit current portal
2. Click the
icon at the right corner of classic - banner portlet (for left banner) or classic
login portlet (for right banner) as:
1.2 Using WCM Inline Editing
WCM provides shortcuts to basic edit actions:
- Click the
icon at the right corner of site's banner and the form to edit current banner will appear:
The
Main Content tab includes:
| Field | Meaning |
|---|
| Name | The default name of the banner. You can not change this value. |
|
| Title | The title of the banner. This field is required. |
|
| Main Content | The main displaying content of the banner. |
1. Change values in the
Edit Mode tab of the editing banner form to edit the web site's banner.
2. You also display a web content on Banner of the site by clicking
'Click on this to access advanced options for configuring the content' link under each editing banner form. The form to select a web content for site's banner will appear:
3. Edit the current web content.
4. Or select the existing content by selecting the
Select an existing web content option to open content types that you want to select:
- Select a content type that you want to display on the banner and then click the OK button.
location: The path to the selected web content location. To select a content from a specific location, do as follow:
- Click icon to show the form to select a content like below. In the left of this form, it will list all web contents in drives of current portal.
- Select a drive on the left and select a content on the right by clicking the
icon corresponding to that web content.
publication: The name of life cycle that the selected web content/document will be assigned. The value of this field is default and can not be changed.
5. Complete editing the site's banner by clicking the
Save button.
In addition, you also edit some properties (in the
Portlet Setting tab, select the
Icon tab and the
Decoration Themes tab) of the banner portlet in the current portal. See eXo Classic Portal Administration Guide for more details.
2 How to edit Homepage
WCM supports you to edit the main content displayed in home page of a web site by following guides:
1. Show form to edit the home page by clicking the
icon at the right corner of site's Home page:
2. Change values in this form or click
'Click on this to access advanced options for configuring the content' link to add an advanced presentation content into home page.
3. Click the
Save button to accept changes.
This function supports you to change the site's footer.
1. Show the form to edit current site's footer by one of two following ways:
3.1 Using Portal
Click the
icon at the right corner of the footer portlet in illustration 3.9. The form to edit the current footer will appear:
3.2 Using Inline Editing
1. Click the
icon at the right corner of the site's footer. The form to edit the current footer will appear:
2. Change values of this form or click
'Click on this to access advanced options for configuring the content' link under this form to select a advanced content be main content of site's footer.
Note:
Banner, Home page and Footer of the site are shared for others. Thus, all changes of them will impact on the entire site. So you should copy the shared banner, home page and footer to a specific portal folder and refer to them when you need.
