You add elements to site areas, content items, page items,
and authoring templates to store web content specific to those items.
About this task
To add, remove or edit elements, click
Manage
Elements from the toolbar of a site area, content item,
page item, or authoring template form.
Procedure
- To add an element:
- Select an element type.
- Enter a name. Do not use double-byte and non-ASCII characters.
- Enter a display title to use as the title of the element
displayed indexes and forms.
- If you create a text provider plug-in for a multi-locale
site, you can also select the text provider and enter a key to look
up a string from the selected text provider. The text provider displays
a different display title for each language it is configured for.
The text that is entered in the Display Title field
is only used if an appropriate display title is not available from
the selected text provider, or if the text provider is not available.
- Click Add.
- To remove an element, click
.
- To copy an element, click
. - Enter a name. Do not use double-byte and non-ASCII characters.
- Enter a display title to use as the title of the element
displayed indexes and forms.
- Click Add.
- To edit an element, click
. Changing an element type might result in
lost data from an existing element. Click Update to
save any changes.
- Use the arrows to change the order that the elements appear
in an item form.
What to do next
Note: Do not overuse elements in a single item. The more
elements that you add to an item, the longer it takes to open in the
authoring portlet.