Site Admin User Guide

12. Templates

Note: This is an advanced level topic

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We have covered editing all kinds of different types of data, and can now move onto the templates in which this data is displayed. There are a number of different templates available:

• Site templates - templates used to display content items in yhour web site or application
• Email templates - templates for emails which the web site sends out
• Recordset templates - dynamic record listings are also templated
• Form templates - templates for organising the individual elements of a form
• Data View - some templates simply cover a general data view of a record

Site Templates (Master templates)

Site templates (or master templates) normally hold the main design of the web site or application - often including things like a logo, header bar, menu etc, and pages of content or listings of records are displayed as pages within these templates.

Form Templates

Forms comprise of a number of elements, and the layout of these elements is organised in a form templates.

Email Templates

The content of emails which the web site may send out can be organised in an email template.

Recordset Templates

Recordset templates are used to contain the layout of lists of data from a database table or query. There are two types of recordset templates - outer and inner.

Outer templates are the surround for a set of records, and inner templates contain a template for the particular data item in general. Examples are:

• Listing products . where the dynamic filtering is made available above the list of each product in the outer recordset, and each product itself is displayed in the inner recordset.
• Viewing the shopping cart . where buttons such as add to cart, checkout and update are in the outer recordset along with the .in the bag. graphic, and each product line itself is in an inner recordset.

General Data View Templates

When browsing a list of items in a recordset template, each item will be held it a data view template. Data view templates hold all of the fields for one single record of data, and that master template including the layout (but not content) of these fields can be edited here. A data view template will itself normally be embedded in a page which itself will be displayed in a site template..

Further Support

For further help and support, please contact Paragon Digital on 0775 646 0555.