Shows any content on your web page that you want from your CMS400.NET including html, text, documents and digital media. You can set the content block widget to show a specified content id or you can set the dynamic parameter so that the content dynamically changes at any time the parameter is passed.
You also can add the following options to the content block.
The content block looks similar to the following figure.
To change the properties, click Edit ().
Fields
Field | Description |
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Filtered by: | Choose Content, Form, or Multimedia and then click View Results on the bottom left of the dialog box to see the content items in the selected type. |
View Result | Click to display contents of the selected folder. Hover over a content item so see a summary of the content. You can filter the content as described in the previous table entry. |
Cancel Button | Click to dismiss the dialog box without adding content. |
Save button | Click to save the changes you made and dismiss the dialog box. |
New button | Click to create new content (rather than selecting existing content). |
Properties Tab
Property | Value |
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Show Social Bar | Check to show links for Add To Favorites, Email and Print. |
Show Content Review | Check to include a Star Rating bar next to the content title. Ratings by visitors indicate how they feel about the content. (Highly rated content attracts more readers.) |
Show Content Title | Check to show the title text. This parameter is superceded if the Header Text has a value. |
Show Message Board | Check to allow comments on this content. |
Header Text | Enter text to replace the title of the content. If this is blank, the content's title will show. |
Read More Text | Enter the string for the Read More hyperlink set in the next property. For example: "Read More..." |
Read More Hyperlink | Enter the hyperlink used for the Read More Text set in the previous property. For example: "Content.aspx?id=168". |
Dynamic Parameter |
Enter any text to pass content id numbers to this widget. When you set this to "id", the widget shows the content number equated to it. For example, if the URL is http://mysite/default.aspx?id=30 then content number 30 shows. |
The Folder, Taxonomy, and Search tabs help you find the content you want to use in this widget.
Folder Tab
To select a folder or content, do the following:
Taxonomy Tab
Select the Taxonomy Category to find the content to add to this widget.
To select a Category or Content, do the following:
Search Tab
To search for Content, do the following: