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Customization: Miscellaneous Global Changes
Characters
Per Title, Heading, etc.
User Pictures
Toolbar
Virtual Forums, Listing Contents of Folders
Resources
Characters
Per...
You
can customize the number of characters which appears per page
and per post, as well as make other decisions of this type. You
can choose the width of the postbox, too, which is useful if you're
using tables to make a left navigation
column which takes up some of the width of the page. Go the Control
Panel > Customizing > General Settings > Presentation
to make these changes.
Figure
1 - Screenshot of Sysop Control Panel with character-length options
displayed.
User
Pictures
In the
user pictures section of the Control Panel
> Customizing, you can choose whether to serve user
pictures with each post, or not. In addition, you can upload a
new default picture. You can also choose the maximum picture size
in pixels.
The
maximum size picture in K that you can upload is approximately
10 to 15K, and this is not sysop-configurable.
Users
can edit their own pictures (upload new ones) but they can't delete
their picture and go back to the default. The sysop must do this
in the User Management > Clear a User's
Picture section. However, a user could upload a 1 pixel
transparent gif in place of his or her picture to effectively
clear it; however, the default image will not appear.
You
can also clear a user's picture at the time that you delete
that user.
Toolbar
The
toolbar can be altered in several ways without resorting to the
use of templates:
-
custom buttons (see Custom Buttons)
- number
of buttons across and their locations
- "three-row"
toolbar, if desired
- HTML
between each toolbar row
- HTML
before and after the toolbar
You
can find the Toolbar Settings section displayed below by going
to the Control Panel > Customizing >
Title,
Toolbar, Backpath, EditHelp.
For example, you may choose to use the HTML display fields to
move the Backpath links section to above the toolbar instead of
below, as it appears in the default display.
Figure
2 - Sysop control panel with Toolbar section displayed.
The
choice to display a Get Info button on the top-level
toolbar and on other toolbars is made here as well.
To enable
or disable the Search button, go to Control
Panel > Customizing > General Settings.
To choose
whether to display a "three-row toolbar" where
the various buttons don't jump from line to line, use the Control
Panel > Customizing > Other Settings. Enabling
this feature overrides the number-of-buttons setting in the Toolbars
section and the toolbar will be shown with three rows, no
matter how many buttons wide it is.
Also
in Other Settings:
- Enable
Message Center and Bookmark buttons
- Show
Edit and Delete buttons for hosts in the toolbar,
instead of next to the Bookmark button
- Show
All Messages and Outline buttons in the message-list
toolbar (the small toolbar that appears before and/or after
the list of displayed messages on a discussion page).
The
templates for the items in Other Settings are held in the webxextn.tpl
file. To further customize any of these options with server-side
scripting, find the relevant macro from the webxextn.tpl
file and add it to your webx.tpl file. Don't alter the
webxextn.tpl file itself, but copy the macros in it to
your webx.tpl file and make the alterations there. Any
alterations in the webx.tpl will take precedence over the
same macros in the webxextn.tpl file.
The
simplest approach to customizing the Toolbar with templates
is to take the three macros that create the three rows of the
"three-row toolbar" from the webxextn.tpl file
and put it in your webx.tpl file. [usertools, foldertools,
configtools] Customize the toolbar with those three macros, and
then make sure that the "three-row toolbar" setting
is turned on in the Control Panel.
Virtual
Forums, Listing Contents of Folders
In the
Control Panel > Customizing > Banner,
footer, background and top-level page
you are given the choice to treat top-level folders as Virtual
Forums.
What
this means is that top-level folders can exist as essentially
separate forums on the same server. Choosing Virtual Forums
removes the top-level page from the backpath links on any page
and allows you to run several separate communities without running
multiple copies of Web Crossing or purchasing a Multi license.
See also Customizing Folders Individually.
In
this area you're also given the choice to list the contents of
the top-level folder or not. If you disable this display, you
can totally customize the look of your top-level page with the
exception of the toolbar, but you'll have to be certain to provide
a way into your content from links you create manually on this
or some other page.
In
each folder's Edit folder area, you can make the choice to list
(or not list) contents within it. See Customizing
Folders Individually.
Resources
See
Folder Customization Chart.
Web
Crossing FAQ:
Sysop
Control Panel
- Customizing
- General
Settings (Presentation, Search Button on Toolbar)
- User
Pictures & Font Sizes (User pictures)
- Title,
Toolbar, Backpath, EditHelp (Toolbar)
- Banner,
footer, background and top-level page (Virtual Forums, List
items in top-level folder or not)
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