April 2009 Archives

Exceptions for Particular Page »

As part of Best Practices, use as few foundation/Master Pages as possible for a project. For one particular site, I was delighted to see all the pages looked like they could be accommodated by one single template. Except one page. This index page did not display the headline of the...

Publishing and Searching Page ID »

For our Technology Services site we wanted the pages to be published as "1234.html" where "1234" is the page id number. This can be set up in SmartTree under General Settings. I also placed an info placeholder in each of the articles to have a page reference of that article...

Previous Page Element »

The previous post discussed pulling in the "headline" of a previous (parent) page. But what if you want to pull in another element?OpenText allows you to pull in the following page's element, however it does not provide the same feature for pulling in information from a parent page. Enter render...

Previous Page Headline »

Within a website you may have an element which is put on a parent page, and should be shown throughout all of the child pages.For instance, if the site was Dentistry, you might have a section called "Research". That section would have a home page with a headline of "Research"....

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