Edit

Select this option to display the Edit section form. This form contains the following fields:

ID

The ID of this section. This is displayed for information only: you cannot change it.

Section name

The section name that will be displayed in the publication.

Unique section 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 Store 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.

Move section to

To move this section and all its subsections to another location in the section hierarchy, click on Choose. Choose a new parent section from the displayed list and click on Finished.

Default section template

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

Default content item template

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

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 Section Roles forms (see Section Roles), since its access controls do not need to be explicitly set. This option is checked by default.

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.

Priority

You can enter a number here to control the order in which sections appear in Web Studio and Content Studio. All the subsections in a given section are displayed in Priority order. Priority also determines the order in which sections are returned by CUE tags and beans, and therefore the default section order in published pages. In this case, however, the order can be modified by template code.

State

Select the required state (Published or Not published).

Is agreement required

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 Is agreement required is checked, then you must enter the appropriate agreement information in this field.

Agreement type

If Is agreement required is checked, select the required type (ShowFrontpage or HideFrontpage). The effect of this option depends upon the type of agreement mechanism being used.

When you have finished editing these fields, click on Save (or Cancel if you want to abandon your changes).