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New Web Appearance (NWA)Configuration of the masterpage settings

GJ 09/10 Group / Region / DepartmentI IA IT IIP1 - Rolf Seese © Siemens AG 2010 - Subject to change

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Configuration of the masterpage settings

Difference between masterpage settings and page settings

Masterpage Settings

Here the settings for publishing pages and content publishing pages are made.

This includes, for example title, welcome image, website layout and general contact information.

Page Settings

These are settings for pages. (Pages are always embedded in publishing sites and content-publishing sites).

This includes for example page title, URL, page layout and the author of a page.

The page settings are not addressed in this document


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Masterpage settings in detail

Title and description

Navigation Start Links

Elements of the toolbar

Welcome Image, Layout and Stylesheet (Coloring)


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Site Actions Site settings Modify all site settings

Siemens NWA Masterpage settings


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Content Masterpage SettingsSettings only for publishing pages(except site title)

Settings only forcontent-publishing pages

General settings(for both websitetypes)



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Change title of a website

If no text is specified,the text of the site above will be taken over.

Furthermore, the text you enter here, is used for underlying websites too, if a text is not explicitly typed in.

For pages directly below the site, the title will be transferred unchanged.


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Change Site description (only publishing sites)

If no text is specified, the text of the site above will be taken over.

Furthermore, the text you enter here, is used for underlying websites too, if a text is not explicitly typed in.

For pages directly below the site, the title will be transferred unchanged.

The site description is displayed only on publishing pages. It will not appear on content publishing pages.


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Select welcome image (only publishing sites)

If no image is specified, the image of the site above will be taken over.

The selected image is used as a standard image for underlying websites, but can be changed there.

It should be noted, that the selected image is displayed only on publishing pages.

For content-publishing pages, see below.

Size: 638 x 393 px


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Change homepage-type (only publishing sites)

If the empty field is selected, the homepage type of the overlying site is taken over.

At „1“, the welcome image is reduced to width 362 pixels.

At „2“ the welcome image will be displayed in original size.

At „3“ the welcome image is reduced to height 196 pixels.

Size: 362 x 393

Size: 638 x 196

Size: 638 x 393


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Navigation columns

Changing the value of this drop-down list has no effect.


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Select a page visual (only content-publishing-sites)

If no image is selected, the image of the overlying website will be taken over.

By default, the selected picture is also the standard picture of the underlying websites, but can be changed there.


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Modify the site identifier

Here a link (Site identifier link) can be placed with associated text (Site identifier).

You can specify absolute URLs (see picture) and relative URLs. Relative URLs only can be specified with pages, that are located directly below the site.

Note: Currently will be checked, whether Site Identifier and Site Identifier Link get predefined values.


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Modify the Site contact

With the box SiteContact, the contact information can be integrated to the website.

In this field, the relative path of an HTML page can be filled in.

Ideally, the HTML document and images are in the documents folder of the website.

Templates for the contact pages can be accessed here.


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Modify the stylesheet

With this drop-down list, the color of a website can be varied.

The selected colors will be taken over by the underlying pages, but can be changed there.

With the setting „default“, the colors of the overlying site are taken over.

Note: Once the stylesheet of the overlying page has been overwritten, it only can manually be set to the desired value.

Cool Grey

Default


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Hide elements of a website

With the help of this text field, elements of the website can be hidden.

If more elements of the website need to be hidden, they have to be separated with semicolon („;“).

Note: This setting is inherited to underlying sites. If hidden elements need to be displayed again on underlying sites, they have to be hidden on the site below and then they have to be explicitly re-enabled. (by removing the text from the textbox)

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Hide elements of a websitePossible inputs for the hidden-elements-textfield are:

Toolbar.Forms

Toolbar.Services

Toolbar.Contact

Toolbar.SiteExplorer

Breadcrumb.Root

LeftMenu.Heading

Note: The fields „Services“ and „Forms“ are hidden in the sector industry, because they have no meaning here. The fields „Contact“ and „Site Explorer“ are required.


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Service Content and Forms Content

In both fields a text or a relative link to an HTML site (stored in the documents folder of the website) can be placed here.

The fields are not necessary for the industry sector (see previous slide).


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Change the Navigation Start Links

With the field „NavigationStart Links“, more links can be placed on top of the breadcrumb navigation.

With this way, a site collection can be attached to an other site-collection.

The input for this field looks like:[<Link-text1>|<Link-URL1>][<Link-text2>|<Link-URL2>] (Separation by blanks)

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