Properties Panel

The section properties panel contains two tabs, Default and Section parameters. Most of the editable section properties are displayed on the Default tab:

Section name

The section name that will be displayed in the publication.

Section unique name

A unique internal name for this section. It is required because Section name does not have to be unique.

Relative directory URI

The name of the server folder in which this section is to be stored. It is appended to the Section URL of the parent section to form a default URL for this section.

Section URL

You can enter an alternative URL for this section here, to be used instead of the default URL formed from the parent section's Section URL and the Relative directory URI of this section.

The URL you enter in this field may only consist of a host name. For example:

http://news.mysite.com/

The following URL:

http://news.mysite.com/stories/

will not work, due to the inclusion of a path component (stories/) in the URL.

This limitation may not apply in some Content Engine installations: it is possible to work around it by setting up some kind of filtering or redirecting in the application server or web server. In a standard installation, however, only URLs with no path component will work.

Hide section

Check this option if you want this section to be hidden in Content Studio. This can be useful, for example, for automatically generated or imported sections that should not be edited.

Inherit access control

Check this option if you want this section to inherit the access controls of its parent section. The section will then not appear in the list of sections in the Web Studio Section Roles forms (see Section Roles), since its access controls do not need to be explicitly set.

This option is checked by default. If you uncheck it, then any users who had section access rights to this section and its subsections will lose them and you will need to explicitly assign new section access rights using Web Studio.

Warning: Changing this option triggers an automatic re-indexing of all the content items in the section and in all subsections that inherit access control from it. Re-indexing is a resource-intensive operation, so you are strongly recommended not to change this option during busy periods.

Allow shadowing

Check this option if you want to be able to use this section as the basis for shadow sections (see Create Shadowed Subsection). If Allow shadowing is already checked and you uncheck it, then when you save your changes any shadow sections based on this section will be converted to ordinary sections.

Behind paywall

Check this option if you want reader access to this section to be restricted (governed by an agreement). For information on how you can implement your user access control, see Restricting Access to Content (requires Java programming skills).

Agreement information

If Behind paywall is checked, then you must enter the appropriate agreement information in this field.

Agreement type

If Behind paywall is checked, select the required type (Show page or Hide page). The effect of this option depends upon the type of agreement mechanism being used.

Section template

Select the required default section page template from the pull-down field.

Content item template

Select the required default content item template from the pull-down field.