Building Faculty Directories, Profiles, and More with MultiEdit Robert Kiffe & Bradley Prasuhn Senior Web DeveloperImplementation Manager OmniUpdate, Inc.

Agenda Overview: ‘Page Templating’ What is MultiEdit? Configuring MultiEdit Demo: Image Slider Hands-On: Building a Faculty Profile Building ‘Template Components’ Utilizing the Power of MultiEdit + XSL

Template Terminology Template Stylesheets Template Files XSLsFiles used by OU Campus for new pages/sections 3 components: Image – Matches Template Control File’s name TCF – Form for creating a new page/section TMPL – Template used for page/file creation

Page Template Components Template Structure

Template Control File (TCF)

What is MultiEdit? Form-based page editing Helps administrators control layout by limiting what content is editable Very similar to Page Parameters (Properties) Great for ‘serializing’ content for data manipulation (filtering, sorting, etc.) using XSL or other scripts

What is MultiEdit? MultiEdit was originally designed for straight HTML pages (non PCFs) Reminder: Page layout for PCFs is determined by XSL All MultiEdit fields are displayed for editing, even if the XSL does not utilize them all

What is MultiEdit? Access via “Edit” Access via “Properties”

Configuring MultiEdit Each MultiEdit field is defined within an editable region Ex. ( Value ) Use instead of the ‘Editor’ tag Form element ‘types’ include: Text, Mini-WYSIWYG, Radio, Dropdown Select, Checkboxes, Image Chooser, Asset Chooser Each ‘type’ has additional options for further customization Each field can have it’s own Group Access setting (set in parent editable region tag) Tags can be written using XML “Nodes” or “Comments”:,, or

Configuring MultiEdit (cont’d) Text Field Example: Mathematics Image Chooser Example:

Configuring MultiEdit (cont’d) Final Product Example:

Demo: Image Slider + Hands-On: Building a Faculty Profile Building ‘Template Components’

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