Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Data Access Europe BV Eddy Kleinjan, Senior Consultant

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Electos  Content Management System  Fully Browser Based  Visual DataFlex Web App Server  Extensible; Source Code is Available  Included in Visual DataFlex Studio

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Advantages of using Electos  Website Owners can Change the Website  No HTML Knowledge is Required  Website can be Changed from any Location  Forces Website to have a Consistent Structure  Appearance of Pages can be Scheduled  Automatic Indexing of Content for fast searches  Control Access to Protected Items (Pro Edition)

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Publications Require Structure

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Electos Tools  Electos Studio Create and Manage Structure Create and Manage Content  Electos Publisher Publishes Content in a Structured way  Electos Site Manager (Pro and Developer Edition) Manages Multiple Websites on a Single Server

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Design in Electos  ASP template decides the looks  Separation of Content and Style  Structured Pages called "Document Structure"  WYSIWYG Editing of Text elements  Upload Content like Pictures, Word and PDF documents

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Electos Publisher Document ASP Template Electos Publisher Page Document Structure

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Electos Concepts  Pages publish Documents using ASP Templates  Documents are based on a Document Structure  Document Structures have one or more Elements  ASP Templates define where/how Elements are Published

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Electos Demo

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Maintaining Content  Pages  ASP Templates  Activation  Categories

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Electos Publisher Document ASP Template Electos Publisher Page

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Pages  A Page publishes a Document  A Document is based on a Document Structure  A Page is published using an ASP template Document ASP Template Electos Publisher Page

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida ASP Templates  ASP Templates are used to publish a Document  Pages bind a Document and ASP Template together  ASP Templates are inherited when no explicit template has been assigned Document ASP Template Electos Publisher Page

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Document Structures

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Document Structures  Document Structures define Items that make up a Document  The number of Items is Unlimited  The Type of an Item defines what type of content is expected to be entered for it. Available types are: - Single Line Text - Multi Line Text - File Title Text

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Document Structure Items Types  Items can be: Single Line Text Multi Line Text Files Reference to  Word Document  PDF Document  Images

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Document Structure Items  Single Line defines a maximum width in Characters  Multi Line Text defines a maximum width in Pixels that will be used during Content Editing to give a WYSIWYG impression.  When a reference to a Word document or PDF document is given, those documents can be selected while editing the content. The Document itself will be shown in an Inline Frame while Publishing.  The Position defines in what order the items need to be entered.

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Document Structure Items Names  The Name of an item will be the name by which the content can be accessed from within an ASP Template  The Title will be text that will be used as a Label when users enter text for an Item.

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Content Types  Documents  Uploaded files like: Images PDF and Word Documents

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Directory Structure (Common)  C:\Program Files\Electos\... …\Common\Data Has Electos Global Information …\Common\SiteManager Contains Site Manager. Will always contain the most recent version of Electos that has been installed.

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Directory Structure (Electos)  C:\Program Files\Electos\v9.9\... Electos Version Specific Files

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Directory Structure (Websites)  …\WebSites\... Contains one directory for each Web Site. …\MySite\AppHtml Contains all files needed for Publishing a Website …\MySite\AppHtml\ContentFiles Contains all uploaded files …\MySite\Data Contains the database that holds the Electos managed Content …\MySite\LogFiles Contains the logfiles for the specific Website

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Cascading Style Sheets

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Cascading Style Sheets  Define the formatting of text in one place  Use the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in both the Electos Studio and Electos Publisher.Heading1 { font-family : Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font: large; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; }

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Steps to create CSS  Create …\Css\ElectosStyles.css  Publish the names of the styles that can be used in Electos Studio under: Electos Studio – Control Panel – CSS Styles  Include the Stylesheet in your ASP Template  Use TopStyle Light to create your CSS

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Restricted Access

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Restricted Access  Create Members Manually (Administrator)  Create / Manage Groups  Assign Members to one or more groups  Put Access Restrictions in place using Groups

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Restrict Access to Pages  Restrict access to Page Category  ASP Templates need to be ‘Restriction Aware’  Include ElectosRestriction.inc Indicates a restricted Object

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Image Gallery

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Image Gallery  An Image Gallery is a Collection of Images  Can be created using an Image Gallery Document Structure together with an Image Gallery ASP Template

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Image Gallery iTotal = oPublisher.call("GET_GalleryCount", iPageID, "Gallery") For iLoop = 0 To (iTotal - 1) sImageUrl = oPublisher.call("GET_GalleryImageURL", iPageID, "Gallery", iLoop) sImageAlt = oPublisher.call("GET_GalleryAltText", iPageID, "Gallery", iLoop) sImageThumb = oPublisher.call("GET_GalleryThumbURL", iPageID, "Gallery", iLoop, 100, 100, false) If sImageThumb = "" Then sImageThumb = "Images/ThumbNAV.jpg“ // Show the image Loop

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida GET_GalleryCount  Returns the number of images for this page and the give Document Structure Item Name iTotal = oPublisher.call("GET_GalleryCount", iPageID, "Gallery")

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida GET_GalleryImageURL  Returns the URL to the full image sImageUrl = oPublisher.call("GET_GalleryImageURL", iPageID, "Gallery", iLoop)

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida GET_GalleryAltText  Returns the ALT Text for the image sImageAlt = oPublisher.call("GET_GalleryAltText", iPageID, "Gallery", iLoop)

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida GET_GalleryThumbURL  Returns URL to a thumbnail size version of the original picture  The Thumbnail will be automatically created if it doesn’t exist yet  Max size is passed (100,100) together with the switch whether or not the picture should fill the available area with a transparent colour sImageThumb = oPublisher.call("GET_GalleryThumbURL", iPageID, "Gallery", iLoop, 100, 100, false)

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Questions?

Open Solutions for a Changing World™ Copyright 2005, Data Access WordwideElectos June 6-9, 2005 Key Biscayne, Florida Thank you!