Edit Page Properties

This screen displays the Page Properties which define the name of the Page and the interactive features of the Page.

NOTE: If you are creating a new Page, only the basic Page Properties are required.  All other Page Properties are hidden, but are visible once the Page has been created.

   
 

Page Name

Page Name: The name of this Page (no spaces please). This value will be used to identify the page on your Web server. This value must be unique among all website Pages.

NOTE: Menus are linked to Pages by the Page's name, so be sure to update any Menu Items that might be linked to the Page if you change the Page's name.
 

Page Access Control, Design, and Common Content

Folder: This is the Folder that the page will be located in. The Folder determines the "view" and "edit" access to the Page.
 

Override Folder's Default Page Styles

 
Desktop Page Style:

Select "Default" to inherit the value from this Page's Parent Folder. Otherwise, select one of the Desktop Page Styles that have been created by the Site Designers.

NOTE: Desktop Page Styles are any System Page Style that is NOT a "Mobile One Column" Page Style (or a Custom Page Style that does not have one_column_mobile CSS class assigned to it's HTML <body> tag.)

Mobile Page Style: Select "Default" to inherit the value from this Page's Parent Folder. Otherwise, select one of the Mobile Page Styles that have been created by the Site Designers.

NOTE: Mobile Page Styles are any System Page Style that is a "Mobile One Column" Page Style (or a Custom Page Style that has one_column_mobile CSS class assigned to it's HTML <body> tag.)
 

Interactive Page Feature

Page Type: A Page's interactive features are determined by it's "Page Type".  Page Types turn simple web pages into data-driven pages like an order form page, custom form page, login page, my account page, shopping cart page, member directory, etc.

By linking Pages with different Page Types together, you can create customized website applications without any programming knowledge. Keep in mind that some Page Types are designed to be chained to other, specific Page Types.

Once you select a Page Type, the Page Type Properties will be visible. Here are the available Page Types you can select from:


* = Page Types for Manager and above.

Standard


Standard: This Page displays simple content and has no interactive features.


Miscellaneous


Change Password *: This Page will be displayed automatically when a User attempts to change their password.

Change Random Password *: This Page will be displayed automatically when a User logs in in for the first time using a temporary password, requesting them to enter their own password.

E-Mail a Friend: This Page displays a form for the Visitor so he/she can e-mail a link to a friend. All Visitors, except Users with edit rights to the page, are limited, by IP address, to 10 e-mails per day in order to prevent spam.

Error *: This Page will be displayed automatically if a Page or File is requested from the website and cannot be found.

Folder View: This Page displays Folders, Pages (which are included in site search), and Files that are located in the same Folder as the Folder View Page.

Forget Password *:
This Page allows a site Visitor to request their password be reset and a temporary password sent to their User account's e-mail address.  This feature must be enabled in Settings for a link to this Page to appear on the Login Page.

Login *: This Page will be displayed automatically if a Page or File is requested from the website and the Visitor does not have access to it (because they haven't logged in yet, for example).

Logout *: This Page will be displayed automatically when the User logs out of the website.

Photo Gallery: This Page displays all "Albums" and "Photos" located in the same Folder as the Photo Gallery Page.

Search Results *: This Page will be displayed automatically when the Site Search feature is accessed.


Registration


Registration Entrance *: This Page will be displayed automatically when a Visitor attempts to access a Page or File in a Guest or Registration Folder.

Spammers use unprotected site registration forms in an attempt to use another's website to post and broadcast their own advertising. To combat this malicious technique, if CAPTCHA is enabled in the Site Settings, a simple challenge question is asked that visitor must answer correctly in order to submit the Registration Entrance Page.

Registration Confirmation *: This Page will be displayed automatically when a Visitor successfully registers on the website. It will then direct the Registered User to their previously requested Page or File. This Page will also be emailed to the Registration E-mail Address in the Site Settings so that someone on your staff can be alerted about the registration.


Membership


Membership Entrance *: This Page will be displayed automatically when a Visitor attempts to access a Page or File in a Membership Folder.

Membership Confirmation *: This Page will be displayed automatically when a Visitor successfully registers as a Member on the website. It will then direct the Member User to their previously requested Page or File. This Page will also be emailed to the Membership E-mail Address in the Site Settings so that someone on your staff can be alerted about the new Member.


My Account


My Account *: This Page displays the User's Personal Contact Information and links to the other account pages: My Account Profile, Email Preferences, View Orders, and Change Password. If any commerce features have been used, any Saved Carts, Order History, and Shipping Address Book is displayed. If they are an Affiliate, then their Affiliate commissions will be displayed. If they are a Member, then their Member ID and Expiration Date will be displayed.

My Account Profile *: This Page allows the User to update their personal contact & billing Information, and change their account password.

E-Mail Preferences *: This Page allows the User (or Subscriber) to update their e-mail address, and any e-mail subscriptions they have access to receive.

View Order *: This Page displays a previously submitted Order, and offers the User the opportunity to reorder (fill their Cart with it's items).

Update Address Book *: This Page allows the User to update the shipping addresses captured during previous checkout sessions.


Forms


Custom Form: This Page will allow you to create your own custom form to collect data from site Visitors.

Custom Form Confirmation: This Page provides a way to display a newly submitted form's data to the Submitter as a receipt confirmation, along with a time and date stamp and a unique reference code.

Form List View: This Page displays filtered rows of submitted form data collected from a Custom Form. It can optionally link each row to a Form Item View.

Form Item View: This Page displays a a single submitted form and must be linked to from a Form List View.

Form View Directory: This Page allows you to see information about multiple Form List Views on one Page (e.g. most recent, most viewed, most active, number of comments, number of views).


Calendars


Calendar View: This Page displays one or more calendars. It can optionally link it's Events to a Calendar Event View.

Calendar Event View: This Page displays the details of a Calendar Event and must be linked to from a Calendar View.


E-Commerce


Catalog: This Page displays thumbnails of product categories and allows Visitors to "drill down" into unlimited Product Groups, without leaving the Page.

Catalog Detail: This Page displays photos, information, pricing, and the "add to order/cart" features for any Product referenced by a Catalog Page.

Express Order: This Page combines the functionality of the traditional checkout process (Shopping Cart Page > Billing Information Page > Order Preview Page) into a single Page, so you can offer fast, one-step checkouts.

Order Form: This Page displays a group of Products in a few different ways and the "add to order/cart" features.

Shopping Cart: This Page displays all the Products and recipients in their Cart, calculates any discounts, displays subtotals, and allows the Customer to update their items, enter an offer code, or checkout.

Shipping Address & Arrival: This Page collects shipping addresses and optional arrival dates for each recipient.

Shipping Method: This Page displays the available shipping options and their fees to the Customer for each recipient.

Billing Information: This Page collects the Customer's billing information for the Order.

Order Preview: This Page displays the order details and totals, and collects the payment method from the Customer.  It also provides the "purchase" button to finalize and complete the Order.

Order Receipt: This Page displays the successful acceptance of the Order, and shows all the Order details, time and date stamp, and the unique order number.  This Page can be e-mailed to the Customer and optionally to any other person on your staff.


Affiliate Program


Affiliate Sign Up Form *: This Page collects all necessary information to process an Affiliate sales representative for your website.

Affiliate Sign Up Confirmation *: This Page is displayed when the Affiliate Sign Up Form is submitted and provides a receipt confirmation for the Affiliate.

Affiliate Welcome *: This Page will be e-mailed automatically to the Affiliate once they have been approved. It contains a self-generated tracking code that will track all on-line sales and commissions for the Affiliate.

NOTE: Changing a Page Type after the Page has been created is non-distructive, meaning you will not lose any data if you change the Page Type, and you can always change the Page Type back without any problems.
 

Site Search Feature

Include in Site Search: Select this option to include this Page in the Search Results Page when the built-in Site Search feature is used.

Site Search is smart. Only search results from Pages that the searcher has access to view will be displayed in the results, so it is safe to enable this feature for Membership and Private Pages.
Promote on Keyword: Select this option to promote this Page to the top of the Search Results Page.

TIP: This is a good way to create site keywords that your Visitors can recall from your promotional materials and quickly find a Page on your site.
 

Home Page Feature

Home Page: Checking this box will make this Page rotate randomly with any other Page marked as a "Home Page" whenever a visitor enters the top level of your domain name (http://www.mydomain.com).
 

Search Engine Optimization

These properties help search engines (e.g. Google, Bing, Yahoo!) crawl your website and promote your Pages in their results. This leads to more traffic to your Website.

The Title, Description, and Keywords fields add text to the Visitor's browser title bar and search engine meta tags to the Page when it is displayed.

The Title and Description fields are also used by the Site Search feature and displayed on Search Results Page.

The Title is used as the e-mail Subject field when the auto-responder feature is used to send the Page after an action has occurred.
Web Browser Title: Page Title. This is what is displayed at the top of the Visitor's browser window when they access this Page.

NOTE: If you leave this field blank, the website defaults found in Site Settings will be used.
Web Browser Description: This is the short description of the Page. This is what you typically see in the Search Engine results on the major search engines.

NOTE: If you leave this field blank, the website defaults found in Site Settings will be used.
Web Browser Keywords: Enter the keywords that will be found in the content of this Page. The search engines will attempt to match these keywords with their visitor's searches. Separate each keyword with a comma.

If you leave this field blank, the website defaults found in Site Settings will be used.

NOTE: If "Include in Site Search" is enabled, then these keywords will be added to all relevant Tag Clouds, and these keywords will be searched along with the Page Region content of this Page in the Site Search.
Include in sitemap.xml: Select this option in order to include this Page in the sitemap.xml file. The sitemap.xml file is used in order to tell search engines about content at your website so that Visitors can find your website.

The Pages's Folder must have a Public Access Control Type and not be archived in order for the Page to appear in the sitemap.xml file. Also the Page must have one of the following Page Types: Standard, Folder View, Photo Gallery, Search Results, Custom Form, Form List View, Form Item View, Form View Directory, Calendar View, Calendar Event View, Catalog, Catalog Detail, Express Order, Order Form, or Shopping Cart.

This feature offers the following advantages.
  • This system will automatically notify all major search engines (i.e. Google, Bing/Yahoo!) daily if the sitemap.xml file has changed. This means that Visitors from search engines will find new content at your website sooner. This also means that you do not have to manually submit your website to search engines or wait for other sites to link to your website in order for search engines to find it.
  • Sometimes search engines are not able to find all URL's at a website. This might be because content is linked in JavaScript or Flash or there might be an area of content that is not linked on the website. The sitemap.xml file ensures that search engines know about every URL at your website.
  • The sitemap.xml file contains information about when an item was last modified so search engines don't have to crawl URL's that have not changed, so this saves bandwidth and improves site performance.
  • The sitemap.xml file contains priority information in order to give the home page(s) the highest priority. This means that search engines can make sure to crawl your home page first in case they are too busy to crawl your whole website at the moment.
  • For Catalog, Form List View, and Calendar View Pages, all items that appear through those Pages will also be included in the sitemap.xml file. For example, if a Product appears on a Catalog Page, then a URL to the Catalog Detail Page for that Product will be included in the sitemap.xml file. This means that search engines will be able to find all items that appear on your website (i.e. Product Groups, Products, Submitted Forms, Calendar Events).
  • This system has a robots.txt file which tells search engines where the sitemap.xml file is located in order to make sure that all search engines can find the sitemap.xml file.

NOTES:

  • The sitemap.xml file should include every Page at your website that you want search engines to know about, not just the most important Pages. Normally, all public Pages should be included. However, if you happen to have public Pages that you only want to share with a few people, then do not include those Pages.
  • Search engines are only notified if there is at least one Page included in the sitemap.xml file, in case you do not want search engines to know about your website.
  • Files are not currently included in the sitemap.xml file (only Pages).
  • The sitemap.xml file may be accessed at the following location:

    http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
 

Comments Feature

The Comments feature adds online community-building functionality to any Page on your site. Comments allow Visitors and Users to interact with your site. If Comments are enabled for a Page, then anyone who can view a Page can leave a Comment (and therefore become a Contributor), and read any published Comments from other Contributors. Comments can be automatically published, or the Page's Moderator (a User with edit rights to the Page), can be alerted via e-mail to new Comments with a link to instantly edit, delete or publish the Comment.

NOTE: Comments are tied directly to a Page. However, some Pages, depending on their Page Type, display dynamic items, so their Comments are tied to both the Page and the dynamic item. This is transparent to the Visitors, but worth mentioning as you are deciding which Pages you should enable Comments for. Pages with the following Page Types display dynamic items: Catalog, Catalog Detail, Form Item View, and Calendar Event View.

NOTE: If CAPTCHA is enabled in the Site Settings and if a visitor is not logged in and the Page has either a Public or Guest Access Control Type, then a Captcha field will automatically be displayed in the Add Comment area of the Page. The Captcha field is a randomly generated question that must be answered before the Comment can be added. This is to protect the Comments feature from being spammed.

IMPORTANT: To display comments, a System Region or <system></system> tag must appear in the Page Style assigned to the Page. The Site Designer can add this tag if necessary.

Enable Comments: Selecting this box will allow Contributors to add Comments to the Page. Comments are disabled by default.
Allow New Comments: Check this box to allow Visitors to add new comments. When the box is unchecked, the add Comment form and Watcher area no longer appear, however the list of Comments is still shown.

An "Allow New Comments" or "Do Not Allow New Comments" button is also displayed near the add Comment form, which allows you to control this same setting. If this is a Page that displays dynamic items (e.g. Form Item View), then the Allow/Do Not Allow new Comments button only applies to the current dynamic item that you are viewing. For example, when using this feature on a Form Item View you are only allowing or not allowing new Comments for that specific Submitted Form. For Pages that show dynamic items, this checkbox will only be used as the default setting for all dynamic items.
Do Not Allow New Comments Message: This is the message that will appear to Visitors if new Comments are no longer allowed. You may leave this field blank if you do not want a message to appear.
Automatically Publish Comments: Check this box to automatically publish Comments instantly as soon as they are added by Contributors. Leave this box unselected if you would like the Comment to be unpublished until the Moderator has approved it.
Allow User to Select Name: Check this box to allow Users to select the name that they want to appear next to "Added by". This feature encourages more participation from your user community by giving them a choice as to how their identity appears to all. If this check box is checked then the User may select from: 1) username, 2) first name, 3) first name, last initial, 4) first initial, last name, 5) first initial, last initial, 6) full name, or 7) Anonymous. If this setting is unchecked, then the username will always be displayed next to the comment.

This setting does not apply to Visitors who are not logged in and does not apply to Users who have edit rights to this Page. These types of Visitors and Users are allowed to enter a name or remain anonymous.
Require Login to Comment: Check this box to require that Visitors login or register before they add a Comment.
Allow File Attachments: Check this box to allow Visitors to upload Attachments when adding Comments. For example, a Visitor might want to upload a picture or a PDF with a Comment in order to share more information. When a Comment has been added with an Attachment, then the Attachment will appear as a link below the Comment, along with the file size. An Attachment will be deleted automatically when its Comment or its Comment's Page is deleted. Attachments can be found easily via My Attachments in the Files tab.
Show Submitted Date & Time: Check this box to show the date & time that a Comment was added next to each Comment (e.g. Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 12:00 AM).

TIP: If you are using Comments for Product reviews then you might want to uncheck this box because the reviews might appear dated over time.
E-mail moderator when a comment is added: Select this box to send an e-mail notification to the Page's Moderator (below). The Moderator will then be able to edit, delete, or publish the Comment.

NOTE: Moderators must have edit rights to the Page. Also, the Moderator will not receive an e-mail notice if the Comment is submitted by an Administrator, Designer, or Manager User (since these Users can approve their own comments so a Moderator is unnecessary).
To E-mail Address: Enter a valid e-mail address for the Moderator that will manage the Comments for this Page.
Subject: This is the subject line of the e-mail. A default subject will be used if the subject is blank.

TIP: For Custom Form Pages and Form Item View Pages, you may also include the name of any custom field in the associated Custom Form to create a dynamic subject that contains submitted form data. Example: You received a message from ^^name^^. You can also use the following format to include different content depending on whether there is a value for a custom form field or not:

[[His name is ^^name^^||He did not include his name.]]

You can use the following format to customize the date format for date and date & time fields. The format must be a PHP date format.

Format:
^^field_name^^%%format%%

Example:
^^submitted_date_and_time^^%%l, F j, Y \a\t g:i A%%

Also send e-mail to custom form conditional administrators:

This feature only applies to Form Item View Pages. Check this box if you want to use the same conditional e-mail notification of administrators to occur that were notified initially when this Page's Custom Form was submitted. Since some Custom Form fields can notify different administrators (or conditiional administrators), you may want the same adminitrators notified when new Comments are added.

TIP: This feature is useful when you want to set up a single Custom Form to manage requests for several internal groups. Each time a Comment (i.e. response) is added to the Custom Form Item View Page, only the proper group selected in original Submitted Form would be notified.

E-mail custom form submitter when a comment is published:

This feature only applies to Form Item View Pages. Whenever a Comment is published this will send the original Custom Form submitter a notification e-mail informing him/her that a new Comment has been published to his/her Submitted Form. In order for this feature to work, there must be a field on the Custom Form where the Connect to Contact property is set to E-mail Address. That allows this feature to figure out the Custom Form submitter's e-mail address.

TIP: This feature is useful for a support ticket system where the person who originally submitted the ticket (i.e. submitted form) needs to be notified when someone replies to their ticket (i.e. adds a Comment).

NOTE: The "From" address for this e-mail notification will be set to the From E-mail Address page type property for the Custom Form. If that field has no value, then the Support E-mail Address from the Site Settings will be used.

Page: This is the page that will be sent to the Custom Form Submitter.

NOTE: This feature requires that a System Region or a <system>Page</system> tag appear in the Page Style for the selected Page. The Site Designer can add the tag if necessary.
Subject: This is the subject line of the e-mail.

TIP: You may also include the name of any custom field in the associated Custom Form to create a dynamic subject that contains submitted form data. Example: You received a message from ^^name^^. You can also use the following format to include different content depending on whether there is a value for a custom form field or not:

[[His name is ^^name^^||He did not include his name.]]

You can use the following format to customize the date format for date and date & time fields. The format must be a PHP date format.

Format:
^^field_name^^%%format%%

Example:
^^submitted_date_and_time^^%%l, F j, Y \a\t g:i A%%

E-mail watchers when a comment is published:

When a Page is selected (below), Users will be allowed to add themselves to the Watcher List for this Page, so that they will be notified via e-mail when a Comment is published. This feature allows Watchers to easily track conversations for certain submitted forms. A Visitor must be logged in as a User in order to add or remove themselves from the Watch List (through a Form Item View Page).

NOTE: The "From" address for this e-mail notification will be set to the Support E-mail Address from the Site Settings.

If this Page is a Form Item View and there is a Form Editor for the Submitted Form, then the Form Editor will be included in the list of Watchers, because he/she will receive the moderator e-mail when a Comment is added. Only Users with edit access to this Page and the Form Editor him/herself will be able to see the Form Editor in the Watcher list. You cannot remove the Form Editor from the Watcher list in the same way that you remove standard Watchers. If you need to remove the Form Editor, then you will need to edit the Submitted Form.

If this Page is a Form Item View and it is set to notify the Custom Form submitter, then the Custom Form submitter will be included in the list of Watchers. Only Users with access to manage Watchers on this Page will be able to see the Custom Form submitter in the Watcher List. This includes Users with edit access to this Page, the Form Editor (if one exists), and the Custom Form submitter him/herself (if "allow submitter to manage watchers" is checked). You cannot remove the Custom Form submitter from the Watcher list.

Page: This is the page that will be sent to the Watchers.

NOTE: This feature requires that a System Region or a <system>Page</system> tag appear in the Page Style for the selected Page. The Site Designer can add the tag if necessary.
Subject: This is the subject line of the e-mail.

TIP: For Form Item View Pages, you may also include the name of any custom field in the associated Custom Form to create a dynamic subject that contains submitted form data. Example: ^^subject^^: A comment has been added. You can also use the following format to include different content depending on whether there is a value for a custom form field or not:

[[Subject is ^^subject^^||There is no subject]]

You can use the following format to customize the date format for date and date & time fields. The format must be a PHP date format.

Format:
^^field_name^^%%format%%

Example:
^^submitted_date_and_time^^%%l, F j, Y \a\t g:i A%%

Allow submitter to manage watchers: Check this box to allow each custom form Submitter to add/remove Watchers from their submitted forms (through a Form Item View Page).

NOTE: This feature is only enabled if "E-mail watchers when a comment is published:" is also enabled (see above).

 

Deleting a Page

When a Page is deleted, a warning message is displayed, and if "Continue" is selected, the Page, its Page Region content, and all of its Comments will be deleted from the system's database.

TIP: If you might want to archive the Page Region content, we recommend that you place the Page in a Private Folder (so no one can view or edit it) instead of deleting it.

NOTE: When a Page is deleted, only the Page Regions and Comments are deleted. Any Common Regions, Page Style, Page Type, etc., are NOT deleted.  The Page, its Page Regions, and its Comments are gone!

NOTE: The delete button only appears for Users that have access to delete Pages.

WARNING: Be careful because there is no undelete!