Site Hierarchy Properties Pane

5-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Site Studio Designer The display and arrangement of these objects is a default. You can rearrange them and customize the interface if you like. See Chapter 6, Customizing Designer for more information.

5.4 Site Hierarchy

The site hierarchy shows the fundamental structure of your Web site, and it ultimately governs many other aspects of your site such as how you organize content and how Site Studio controls its presentation. You can show or hide the site hierarchy from the View menu. Figure 5–2 Site Hierarchy Pane After you specify a name and location for a Web site in Site Connection Manager see Site Connection Manager on page 5-27, you are ready to start building the site structure. You do this by creating a home page, then individual sections like Products, Services, and About Us in the site hierarchy. After you add the sections, you are ready to add page templates to each section. Page templates come in two flavors: ■ Primary page : A primary page is the page template that is associated with a section in the site hierarchy. It is the page that you see when you go to that section of the site much like the default page on a conventional site. ■ Secondary page : A secondary page can also be associated with a section in the site hierarchy. However, its main purpose is to serve as a backdrop for files contributor data files and native documents added to the site by a contributor. Whether you are adding a primary or secondary page to a section, you have three options: create a page template from scratch, reuse an existing page template, or create a page template based on an existing page template. For more information, see Working With the Site Hierarchy on page 12-1. You can also use the Manager application to modify the site hierarchy and assign page templates see Site Studio Manager on page 5-38.

5.5 Properties Pane

The properties pane displays useful information about the currently selected object in the site hierarchy, workspace, site assets pane, or toolbox. You can show or hide the properties pane from the View menu. The information displayed in the properties pane is divided into categories, depending on the current object. Figure 5–3 shows the property categories for a node in the site hierarchy called Careers. They are Web site, Section, and Custom section properties. Other selected objects have different property categories. You can use the Getting Started With Designer 5-5 plus and minus symbols to expand or collapse the property categories to show or hide the properties and their values. Figure 5–3 Property Categories The properties shown differ for each property category. For example, for the site hierarchy, it displays the site ID and label, Cgi URL, home page, default placeholder definition, and so on Figure 5–4 . For page templates, it displays information about the site assets, HTML tags, scripting tags, and fragments on the page. The site asset properties are shown as you work in design view so that you can see what is happening behind the scenes and make precise edits to specific tags. Figure 5–4 Properties and Their Values You can use the properties pane to view and edit various settings on your Web site, including the site hierarchy, primary pages and secondary pages, and the contents of site templates HTML, scripts, fragments, and so forth while working in design view. The properties pane is extremely useful to edit the contents of site templates page templates, subtemplates, and region templates, especially when those changes cannot 5-6 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Site Studio Designer be performed directly in design view. Examples of this include background color, page margins, and table width. You can use the icons at the top of the properties pane to show all properties in alphabetical order by name or categorized into groups of related properties. The values of some properties may be edited. These are shown in black. If a property cannot be edited, it is grayed out. If you click a different area of a page template, region template, or subtemplate while in design view, or a separate site asset, a different tag with different attributes displays instead. You can view the attributes of a parent tag by selecting it from the drop-down list at the top of the properties pane. You can also use the Manager application to modify properties that relate to the site hierarchy. See Site Studio Manager on page 5-38 for more information.

5.6 Workspace