The Section View Page

The Time Dial and Event Dial

The Time Dial allows you to travel through time to see how your page will look at any given time according to the editing you perform. Remember that with IN2U you are managing the life history of a page. You will want to know what your page looks like at a given time in the future, especially when you have made a change to its life history.

The Time Dial consists of three gadgets:

>View Today

View Today will show you today's programming at the touch of a button. This is useful when you have been exploring the future of your page's programming through the "View by Date" gadget.

View by Date

The "View by Date" gadget lets you see what will be displayed in the history of your page on any given date. Move the selectors to the date you would like to see and press the View Button.

View by Update

The third item in the Time Dial is the "View by Update" gadget. As you program the life history of your page, this gadget will become populated with important dates. These are times when an event happens, that is, an item either comes into being or dies on each of these dates. Apart from knowing what the page looks like at any given time, you will also be interested in knowing when the page will change appearance. That's what the "View by Update" function is for.

Note: You cannot select the day of the week in the Time Dial. It is there for reference only. The other items can be freely selected. You may even select nonsense dates, such as the 31st of February. However, IN2U neither guarantees nor cares about the result that you will get by doing so. If you make an IN2U Item viewable on February 31st, it will never be seen, since February 31st will never happen.

The Sections of your page

You can see that certain parts of the page now have a "scaffolding" or green frame around them. These frames denote the IN2U Sections that your Web designer configured for your Web page. Areas without framing are not editable by IN2U because they are integral to your Web site as a whole. Modifying these areas will require contacting your representative. The top of each IN2U Section has a Title, a number in brackets ([10], etc.) and a Choose button. The Title describes the contents of the IN2U Section. The number in brackets ([x]) denotes the Maximum Viewable Items allowed for that IN2U Section (see below). The Choose button is used to select this IN2U Section for editing.

IN2U Sections are assigned Maximum Viewable Items by your Web designer. You can have any number of IN2U Items programmed for display throughout the life history of the page, but the page will only display the specified number of Maximum Viewable Items at a time. For example, if the Maximum Viewable Items for a picture of your Soup of the Day is set to [1], then only one soup can be displayed at a time, even though you have 7 different soups (one a day) programmed to be displayed. Without setting a limit on the number of Maximum Viewable Items, a page can become overly long and unwieldy, or lose its layout integrity, or just look bad. The Maximum Viewable Items will be set to accommodate your page's content, plus a reasonable amount of leeway for expansion in the page's future.

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