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The Web Site Content Menu

After you sign in to your Web site, just above content you have permission to edit is a silver access point (see illustration below). When you hover the cursor over it, a menu appears.

You can perform Ektron CMS400.NET tasks from the menu. Menu options vary depending on the content’s status, your permissions, etc. The advantage of this feature is that you can see how a Web page will appear to site visitors.

Web Site Content Menu Options

The following table describes the menu options that may appear.

Button

Name

Description

More Information

Add

Appears if you selected a language and the content is not available in that language. Use this button to copy existing content into new content and translate it to the new language.

Creating New Content in Any Language

Approve

Approve or decline a request to publish or delete content

Approve/Decline Content

Add Task

Add a task to a user

Assigning and Reviewing Tasks

Delete

Open View Content page. From it, you can delete the content.

Viewing Content

Edit

Check out content for editing; open in separate window

Editing HTML Content

Edit in Context

Check out content for editing; content remains within Web page

Edit in Context

Logout

Log out of Web site

Logging Out of the Sample Site

New Poll

Create new poll or survey

Creating Polls and Surveys

Preview

Preview content before it is published

Previewing Content in a Mobile Device Template

Properties

Open content’s View Content page

Viewing Content

View Content Difference

Display differences between previous and currently-published version of content

Comparing Versions of Content

View History

Open View History screen, where you can view previous versions of content

Viewing and Restoring Previous Content

Workarea

Open Workarea. From here, you can perform all Ektron CMS400.NET tasks.

Using The Workarea and Smart Desktop

Technical Note 

Changing the Appearance of the Web Site Content Menu

You have three choices for determining the appearance of the Web Site Content menu. To make your choice, edit the ek_UserMenuType element of the siteroot/web.config file. By default, ek_UserMenuType is set to 2.

Value set in ek_UserMenuType

Description

Illustration

2 (default)

Dropdown Interface - No borders; dropdown menu appears when user clicks the Silver Access Point in top left corner of server control.

 

1

Classic Interface - Colored borders and menus always appear; menu options appear as icons in the top row.

Note: If you use this interface, the page layout is not depicted accurately because of the fixed toolbars.

 

0

Hover Interface - Colored border appears when user hovers mouse over area; menu appears when user right clicks mouse inside border.

This interface has two display options: vertical (shown on right) and horizontal.

To change:

1. Open the siteroot/web.config file.

2. Find ek_MenuDisplayType.

3. Change its value:

0 (zero) = horizontal

1 = vertical

 

Hiding and Showing the Content Border 

By default, Ektron CMS400.NET provides the silver access point to indicate the edit menu. An alternate view of the edit menu uses borders around content areas. This is optional and can be set in the web.config file. To learn how to set this option, see Changing the Appearance of the Web Site Content Menu.

Warning! If you change the border to hidden, the Add and Edit buttons for menus are also hidden. This displays the page as it appears when you are not logged in. For information on menus, see Working with Menus.

You can hide the border that surrounds content when you are logged into Ektron CMS400.NET. This lets you view the page as it appears when not logged in.

If the border is hidden and you hover over a content area, there is no indication that it is Ektron CMS400.NET content. However, you can right click to access the menu.

Technical Note 

Note: Information about whether a border is hidden is stored in a cookie on a user’s system. This preserves the information between sessions.

Hiding the Border

To hide the content border, right click a content block while logged in. Next, select Hide Borders. This image shows content with a border.

This image shows the same content without a border.

Showing the Border

To show the border, right click a content block while logged into Ektron CMS400.NET. Next, select Show Borders.


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