| Basic
Customization: Customizing the Appearance of Individual Folders
and Discussions
Changing
the Appearance of Individual Folders
Changing the Appearance of Individual Discussions
Troubleshooting
Resources
Changing
the Appearance of Individual Folders
You
can not only change folders on a global
basis but you can also change each individual folder, if you
wish, by clicking Edit Folder within any folder, and then
clicking Folder Appearance on the page that comes up.
Appearance
changes are inherited - so if you change the appearance
of a folder, all the folders and discussions nested within it
will inherit those changes.
Sort
Sequence
Lists of folders and discussions are ordered by the choice you
make in the Control Panel > Customizing
> Folder > Folder Presentation. The options are:
- oldest
first
- newest
first
- alphabetical
- more
active discussions toward the top
However,
you can override the default ordering at any time by altering
the sort sequence number for a given item. If you give an item
a higher number, it goes higher up on the page in its containing
folder. For instance, you could use this to assure that a
certain discussion will always end up at the top - or bottom -
of the list.
It's
possible to alphabetize lists of folders in this way even though
you have some other default setting for your site. Sort sequence
overrides any other sequencing method. Within items with the same
sort number, the default method is used to order them. See the
sysop
documentation for an example. See the Folder-Discussion
page for more complete information and examples.
URL
for Background pattern
This operates the same as the global setting under the Control
Panel > Customizing > Banner, footer, background and top-level
page, only it's specific to this folder. See Background/Links.
HTML
for Folder Banner
If present, this banner replaces the banner
you specified in the Control Panel > Customizing
> Banner, footer, background and top-level page. Same thing
with the Footer. Any WCTL in
local folder banners is interpreted by default, unless you turn
off this option in the Control Panel >
Customizing > General Settings: "Treat all local
banner and footer settings as WCTL templates."
List
Items in This Folder
If you'd like to avoid listing the items within your folder at
all, deselect this check mark. Note that if you choose to do this,
you'll have to provide your users with some other way to get to
your material, presumably links you create yourself within the
folder description area. Any WCTL in local folder footers is interpreted
by default, unless you turn off this option in the Control
Panel > Customizing > General Settings: "Treat
all local banner and footer settings as WCTL templates."
Template
Finally, if these changes aren't enough for you, you can build
a whole separate Folder
Macro in WCTL or WCJS. Once it's built, specify the name of
your macro here in this field. See the sysop
documentation.
Changing
the Appearance of Individual Discussions
Discussions
inherit the banner and footer of the folder that contains them
unless you've built a special discussion macro to display your
discussion.
Click
on Edit Discussion on the discussion page you wish to adjust.
Sort
Sequence
See Sort Sequence for folders, above.
Permanent
Discussion
See Archiving.
Creation
Date
If your folder display lists are ordered by creation date (i.e.
newest first or newest last) you can change creation date of the
discussion you're editing by changing this date. If oldest discussions
show up at the top of the list, change this date so it's the earliest
one of all the discussions listed.
Template
If you've built a special discussion macro for this discussion,
here's where to tell Web Crossing its name. See the sysop
documentation.
Troubleshooting
The items
in the folder aren't in the right order.
- Check
the default settings in the Control Panel
- Check
the number given to each item in question.
My folder
or discussion doesn't look right.
- Check
the settings under Edit Folder and any WCTL/WCJS macros
that are assigned to the folder.
- If
you have macros, try turning off use of the webx.tpl file
in the Control Panel to see if
that helps.
- If
there are none, check the settings for the parent folder.
Resources
See
Folder Customization Chart.
Web
Crossing FAQ
Sysop
Control Panel
- Customizing
- Folder
> Folder presentation (default presentation order of
items the folder contains)
- Banner,
footer, background and top-level page (global banner, footer,
and background changes)
Sysop
Documentation
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