Enabling Content Customization

As an alternative to pre-defined content, you can enable users to customize content at run time, which can make portal pages more engaging, useful, and interactive. With this feature you can also control which items users can access, by assigning a specific path to the Add content button in the Properties panel. This feature can be used with panel, tab, carousel, and accordion containers. If you enable this feature on a multi-content container, the Add content button automatically appears on every new tab, slide, or area.

Procedure: How to Configure the Content Customization Properties

1. In WebFOCUS Designer, drag an empty panel on the canvas.

   Note: If you want to display initial default content and let users change it at run time, drag a content item on the canvas.

2. With the panel or content item selected, in the Properties panel, on the Settings tab, disable the Lock content option.

   If you used an empty panel, the Add content icon displays in the middle of the selected panel.

3. If you want to direct your selection to a specific area in the repository, click the ellipses next to the Path property to select a domain or folder that you want to display in your selection area at run time.
4. Keep the Lock path option selected, if you want to limit your selection to the path specified in the previous step.
5. Optionally, select the Flatten list option, if you want to hide the folder hierarchy inside your selection area and only display items.
6. Optionally, select the Hide tags option, if you want to hide all tags from your selection area.
7. Configure the Initial View option, choosing between Grid and List.

   Note: Users can change the view at run time inside the Select Item dialog box.

   The following image shows an example of the configured Container Customization properties.

   

8. Save the page.

Procedure: How to Select Content at Run Time

1. Run the page that features interactive panels.
2. Click the Add content button, as shown in the following image.

   

   If you used a content item, click the Options menu and then click Replace, as shown in the following image.

   

   The Select Item dialog box opens.

   If the Lock path option is disabled, you can navigate between domains using the breadcrumb trail.

   If the Flatten list option is disabled, you can navigate between the folders within the selection area hierarchy.

   You can also use the search function, toggle between the Grid and List views, and refresh your selection area.

3. Make a selection and click Add.

   The selected item displays inside the panel.

4. To go back to the initial view of the interactive panel, click Options, and then click Remove, as shown in the following image.

   

   The item is removed from the panel, and the Add content button displays.

5. To replace an item with another item, click Options, and then click Replace.

   The Select Item dialog box opens where you can make a new selection.

   Note: When the page is used in a portal, content customization changes that the user makes at run time to unlocked containers is remembered if the user has the Save Portal Customization privilege. If the user does not have this privilege or if the content customization changes are made to a standalone page, these changes are not remembered by WebFOCUS.