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mkerk
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Nov 13, 2002, 4:51 PM

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Hello! I just started using page publisher yesterday and it works great! We are also using Article Manager and the combination of the 2 products is making my life as web manager/developer much easier. I have a few questions about Page Publisher for you:

1. When editing a text box field on the Update Page, is there a way to increase the width so more text is visible on one line? The problem I am having is my text is split on 2 lines and it is difficult to read and edit.

2. On the update page, what is the difference between text and html on the text box field?

3. I have several pages where the page content contains many links to different urls. I know I can setup a publish field for each of the existing links. My question is, what is the best way to allow the user to add or delete from this list of url's? Is there a way to do this besides as a text box where the user needs to know and understand the <A HREF...> html command?


dlo_itools
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Nov 13, 2002, 5:14 PM

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Re: [mkerk] Size of update screen [In reply to] Can't Post
1. When the latest version of Page Publisher (1.19), you can edit the file _page_menus.html to change the width of all textarea's. Look for for a line called

<!-- templatecell : textarea -->

Below that, you will see a textarea tag with col=60. Change the 60 to some bigger number to get a wider box. Just remember that this is a global setting and will apply to all textareas. Also remember to backup this file before making changes, otherwise errors can cause the program to stop working.

2. The difference between a TEXT and HTML field is how extra blank lines are treated. In a TEXT field, the blank lines are converted to <br>'s, so you will get see the blank lines in your HTML output. For a HTML field, nothing special is done, so blanks lines are not shown.

3. The way to handle a list of URL's is to use several

<!-- publish type="link" -->

fields. These type of publish tags will prompt the user for the NAME and the URL, so they don't have to knowing anything about <a href>'s.
/Dave Lo


mkerk
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Nov 13, 2002, 6:27 PM

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Re: [mkerk] Size of update screen [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks Dave for the quick response and the information! I was able to change the column width and I am now experimenting with <!-- publish type="link" --> tags. Thanks again for your help.