Add elements to an item

 

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You add elements to sites, site areas, content items and authoring templates to store Web content specific to those items.

To add, remove or edit elements, click Manage Elements.

• To add an element:
  1. Select an element type.

  2. Enter a name. Do not use double-byte and non-ASCII characters.

  3. Enter a display title to use as the title of the element displayed indexes and forms.

  4. Click Add.

• To remove an element, click .

• To copy an element, click .
  1. Enter a name. Do not use double-byte and non-ASCII characters.

  2. Enter a display title to use as the title of the element displayed indexes and forms.

  3. Click Add.

• To edit an element, click . Changing an element type may result in data being lost from an existing element. Click Update to save any changes.

• Use the arrow buttons to change the order that the elements will appear in an item form.

You may receive timeout errors when saving items that contain large numbers of elements. To rectify this we can:

• Increase the total transaction lifetime timeout setting of the WebSphere Portal server.

• Reduce the number of elements stored in a site, site area or content item.

• Create multiple authoring templates that contain only those elements required for a specific task.

• Naming elements
  Use an element tag to display the content of an element within a presentation template or element design. The name of each displayed element must match the "key" defined in the element tag. The element types do not have to be consistent.

 

Parent Topic

Work with elements

 

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