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webEdition 4
User Guide
Standard 4.1.1
October 2006
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Contents
About this document 33
1 Introduction 37
What is webEdition? 37
How does webEdition work? 37
About webEdition database architecture and content storage 38
About webEdition templates and web page layout 38
About we:tags and content management 38
webEdition users: template administrators and Web page editors 39
The role of template administrators 39
The role of Web site editors 39
The workflow within webEdition 40
What’s new in webEdition 4.0? 40
What’s next... 41
2 User controls 43
Starting webEdition 43
Selecting your language 44
The webEdition main screen 44
Preferences 47
The User interface view 47
The File extension view 48
Editor view 48
Formmail recipients view 49
Proxy server view 49
Advanced view 49
The System tab 51
Error handling view 53
Backup view 54
Validation view 54
System settings for pageLogger 55
The webEdition menu structure 56
The File menu 56
The Options menu 59
The Modules menu 60
The Help menu 60
The explorer menu 61
Search function 63
Simple search 63
Advanced search 64
webEdition control elements 66
Viewing modes: standard and Super-Easy-Edit Mode 66
The editing screen in standard mode 66
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The editing screen in Super-Easy-Edit Mode 67
3 Working with documents – the role of the editor 71
The four views when working with documents in normal mode 71
The Documents Properties view 72
The Documents Edit view 73
The Documents Information view 74
The Documents Preview view 75
The Documents Validation view 76
Working with webEdition pages 77
Creating a new webEdition document 77
Saving, “unpublishing”, and deleting documents 78
"Unpublishing" a file 79
Deleting documents, templates, objects, or classes 80
Overview of all unpublished pages 81
Modifying and updating a document 82
Creating a new document directory 82
Copying the contents of one directory to another 82
Rebuilding static and dynamic Web pages 83
Using the Import feature 83
Importing local files 84
Importing files from your server 86
Importing generic XML data 87
Importing CSV files 88
webEdition XML import 89
Working with graphical documents 91
Uploading an image 91
Importing more than one image 93
The image Properties view 95
The image Edit view 96
The images Information view 98
The images Thumbnails view: thumbnail formatting 98
Associating an image with a thumbnail format 100
Displaying your photo album 101
Working with non-graphical documents 102
Editing HTML pages 102
Using Flash movies 104
Using Quicktime movies 105
Editing JavaScripts 105
Creating a cascading style sheet (CSS) 106
Other files 107
Features in the Options menu 107
Document types 107
Categories 110
Changing user name and/or password 111
How an editor works within a template: using template input fields, lists and
menus 111
Single-line input box (<we:input type="text">) 112
Date (<we:input type="date">) 112
Checkbox (<we:input type="checkbox">) 112
Input choice box (<we:input type="choice">) 112
Text box (<we:textarea>) 113
Lists (<we:block>) 120
Link list (<we:linklist>) 120
Select box (<we:select>) 123
Image field (<we:img>) 124
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Movie fields (<we:flashmovie> and <we:quicktime>) 124
Editing documents in seeMode 124
The navigation tool 127
Using the navigation tool 127
The menus 128
Creating new navigation items 128
Creating a new navigation folder 132
Rules for the highlighting 135
Tags for the navigation tool 135
we:navigation 135
we:navigationEntry 136
we:navigationEntries 136
we:navigationField 137
we:navigationWrite 137
Example 137
4 Creating templates—the role of the administrator 141
What is a template? 141
What are we:tags? 141
How do I use we:tags? 141
The five views when working with templates 143
The template Properties view 143
The Templates Edit view 145
The Templates Information view 145
The Templates Preview Editmode view 146
The Templates Preview view 146
Creating Mastertemplates 147
Including templates 149
Template Rebuild 149
Creating templates 149
Creating templates using webEdition 150
Creating a new template 150
Saving a template 151
Updating/modifying a template 151
Deleting a template 151
Adopting an existing Web site 151
Integrating your own we:tags 153
Creating templates from documents made in HTML editing programs 153
Tags for the navigation tool 154
we:navigation 154
we:navigationEntry 154
we:navigationEntries 155
we:navigationField 155
we:navigationWrite 155
Example 155
Features for developing webEdition templates 157
Link lists (<we:link> and <we:linklist>) 157
Summary pages/areas 158
Creating a photo album 162
Producing and changing pages and objects from the front end 164
Including documents (<we:include>) 167
Search feature 168
E-Mailing a form 169
Working with HTML frames 170
Importing a Website 170
Generating templates automatically 171
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Using a dedicated template 171
RSS feeds 173
Integrating external RSS feed 173
webEdition pages as RSS feed 174
5 Banner Module: Introduction 177
What is the webEdition Banner Module? 177
Installation 178
General information and navigation 178
Opening the Banner Module 178
The Banner Module main page: drop-down menus 179
The banner explorer menu and main page 180
The banner Properties view 180
The banner Placement view 182
The banner Statistics view 183
The banner group Properties view 184
6 Creating banners 185
Setting the properties for a banner 185
Placing a banner on a Web page 188
Viewing and sorting banner statistics 191
Sorting statistics 192
Creating banner groups 192
7 Practical examples for template developers 195
What tags are required to display a banner on a webEdition page? 195
What format is used to display banners? 195
Displaying a banner with JavaScript 195
Displaying a banner in an iframe 196
How can I display specific banners on a page? 196
How can I display a banner without a link? 196
How can I use files other than /webEdition/getBanner.php and
/webEdition/bannerclick.php? 196
How can I display webEdition banners on external Web pages? 196
How can I use the Banner Module to gather statistics about pages that do not display
a banner? 197
How can I provide banner statistics for my customers? 198
8 Customer Management: Introduction 201
What is the webEdition Customer Management Module? 201
Installation 201
General information and navigation 201
Opening the module 202
The Customer Management menus 203
About fields and views in the customer database 204
9 The Customer Management PRO Module 207
What is the webEdition Customer Management PRO Module? 207
General information and navigation 207
Customer Management PRO explorer menu 207
The Customer drop-down menu 208
Using the Search function 209
Using the Sort function 210
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10 Using the customer database 213
Creating a new customer using the Customer Management Module 213
Modifying customer data 214
Working with fields in the customer database 214
Adding fields to the customer database 214
Modifying fields in the customer database 216
Deleting a field 217
Working with customized views 217
Creating a new view 217
Editing a view 218
Deleting a view 219
11 Designing templates for the Customer Management Modules 221
Creating registration forms 221
Creating a form to register a new customer 225
Designing registration forms: code example 225
Explanation of code 225
Creating a login area for your customers 226
Generating a login section: code example 226
Making information accessible only to logged-in users: code example 226
Creating a form to allow a customer to modify their existing registration data 227
12 Database/Object Module: Introduction 229
What is the webEdition Database/Object Module? 229
Intended users 229
What is an object? 229
What is an object class? 230
What the Database/Object Module can do 230
Interactions with other webEdition modules 231
Installation 231
General information and navigation 231
Main menu functions 232
Tab functions and the explorer menu 233
The Objects tab 233
The Classes tab 241
Understanding the automatic naming policies 244
Unique 245
Day 245
Month (01-12) 245
Month (1-12) 245
Year (02) 245
Year (2002) 245
Hours 245
ID 245
Text 246
Understanding field types 246
Select 246
Date 247
Textinput 247
Textarea 247
Image 249
Integer 249
Float 250
Object 250
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Link 250
Href 250
Binary 251
Combining fields, sorting and deleting fields 251
Creating/editing vs. displaying objects/classes 252
Creating/editing objects/classes: permissions 252
Displaying objects in the front end 252
13 Creating classes and objects 255
Creating an object class 255
Creating an object 258
Using workspaces 260
Assigning a new workspace 260
14 Displaying objects and including objects in templates 265
Displaying objects: an overview 265
Database/Object Module we:tags 267
Creating an object summary 267
Displaying an object in a document using the <we:listview> tag 268
Displaying an object in a document using the <we:object> tag 268
15 Editor PlugIn: Introduction 271
What is the webEdition Editor Plug-in Module? 271
Requirements, installation and licensing 271
User preferences for the Editor Plug-in 273
Setting a default editing program 274
16 How to use the Editor Plug-in 277
Starting the Editor Plug-in 277
Using an HTML editor 278
17 Export Module: Introduction 279
What is the webEdition Export Module? 279
Installation 279
General information and navigation 279
Start Module 280
Export Module explorermenu 280
The menus 281
The Export-dropdownmenu 281
Help-dropdownmenu 281
Export Module views 281
The property view 281
The Options view 282
The Details view 284
18 Using the Export Module 287
Define a new export 287
Exportgroups 288
19 Newsletter Module: Introduction 289
What is the webEdition Newsletter Module? 289
Installation 290
General information and navigation 290
Opening the module 290
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