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Working With Dynamic Lists
This sections covers the following topics:
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About Dynamic Lists on page 8-1
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Dynamic Lists in Contributor on page 8-2
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Adding a New File to a Dynamic List on page 8-3
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Adding an Existing File to a Dynamic List on page 8-4
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Editing the Files in a Dynamic List on page 8-6
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Excluding and Including Files in a Dynamic List on page 8-6
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Viewing the Content Information Page for a File in the List on page 8-8
8.1 About Dynamic Lists
Lists can take many forms. If you have spent much time in a word processor or a web page editor, then you are probably familiar with the two basic kinds: the bulleted list
and the numbered list see Adding Numbered and Bulleted Lists
on page 4-3. On a Site Studio Web site, there are two more types of lists that you can work with: dynamic
list and static lists. These offer more advanced editing capabilities in Contributor. A dynamic list is a flexible and powerful feature in Site Studio Contributor. The list
itself is created by the site designer and then turned over to you, the contributor, so that you can edit and manage the list.
The look-and-feel of the dynamic list varies, depending on how it was originally set up by the designer. It may be a simple bulleted list with links to different web pages, or it
could be a list of links on the side of the web page, used by site visitors to navigate the Web site.
The dynamic list performs a search of the content server and displays the files that result from that search on a web page. The search is usually for contributor data files
or native documents matching specific criteria for example, all files stored in the Products section. On the web page, you the contributor or a site visitor sees a list
of related files. These files can be different types of groupings, such as press releases, knowledge base articles, or FAQs.
Regardless of how the list was set up, you the contributor are responsible for adding items, removing items, and editing items in the list.
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8.2 Dynamic Lists in Contributor
On a web page, a dynamic list may look like a bulleted list of links, a list of related topics, a part of the site navigation, and so on. It can take many forms, depending on
how it was set up. When editing a dynamic list in Contributor, however, you see a list in the form of a table with columns and rows
Figure 8–1 .
Figure 8–1 Dynamic List in Contributor
It is set up this way so that you can easily identify the files and their properties that are in the list. The way it looks in Contributor may vary quite a bit from how it looks
on the actual web page. It may, for example, be presented as a bulleted list Figure 8–2
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Figure 8–2 Dynamic List on a Web Page
As such, you may want to frequently preview the list to see what your changes look like on the actual Web site see
Previewing a Web Page on page 3-10.
Each dynamic list in a contribution region has a separate editing section in the Contributor editor. At the top of the section is the dynamic list toolbar
Figure 8–3 ,
which you use to add to, and edit, the list.
Figure 8–3 Dynamic List Toolbar
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8.3 Adding a New File to a Dynamic List
