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simonwh
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Jul 3, 2006, 7:29 AM

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Hi. Can you tell me if it's possible to add an extra text area to the admin input area?

We want to create a selection of how-to guides and many of the stages in each document will need a 'warning' or 'tip' section to accompany the text.

In our existing documentation the warnings appear inside a red box and the tips inside a green box.

I can add the details with css/html but it would be nice - and a lot easier for non-technical staff - if they just had to key in the details into an additional textarea without worrying about the additional css commands.

Thanks


ross
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Jul 3, 2006, 11:35 AM

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Hi Simon.

Thanks for posting!

While adding a new field would definitely be possible, linking it up with your datafiles isn’t something I know what options you have for. What I was thinking though, is that if you had a field that wasn’t currently in use, you could take that one and change its display name.

Does that sound like it would work? Let me know and I can go into more detail for you Smile.
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simonwh
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Jul 4, 2006, 5:46 AM

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Hi Ross, thanks for your reply. and for your previous assistance by email.

In Docbuilder I can only see one textarea for each page. If I could add more it would help. Would this have to be done as a code hack? I can't see any way of doing it in the admin section.


ChetW
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Jul 4, 2006, 2:29 PM

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Hi Simon,

Thanks for the update. :)

With DocBuilder you can't actually add new fields, I believe what Ross was suggesting had to do with using an existing field in a different way.

From the sounds of it Article Manager may be a better solution for you. Article Manager has a similar layout to DocBuilder and also has it's own search engine.

What you may want to do is take a closer look at Article Manager using the link below:

http://www.interactivetools.com/products/articlemanager/

Also if you have any questions about how Article Manager can be used to best suit your needs just send me an e-mail and I will be happy to go over things with you.
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simonwh
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Jul 4, 2006, 2:41 PM

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Thanks Chet

I'm actually configuring AM on the site right now. I was planning to run Doc Builder alongside it as it seems much simpler for publishing 'how-to' guides.

I posted a question in the AM forum about this, maybe you could take a look

Many thanks

Simon