Portal, V6.1

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Work with elements

You use elements to either store or generate web content. You can add elements to sites, site areas, content items and authoring templates or you can create a stand-alone component for a specific element-type.

• Storing text and HTML
  You use different types of elements to store text or HTML depending on the type of text or HTML being created.

• Creating links
  You use these elements to define or generate links between different pages in a Web site.

• Storing files and images
  You use these elements to store files or images.

• Referencing external content
  You use these elements to reference content stored in other IBM WebSphere Portal applications, or stored outside of WebSphere Portal.

• Personalized content
  You use these elements to create or reference personalized content.

• Selection elements
  You use these elements to make selections from existing elements and data.

• Design elements
  You use these elements to enhance the design of presentation templates and other elements designs.

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

• Work with element designs
  You use element designs to define the design and layout of elements.

• Creating components
  You create components to store a single element.

 

Parent topic

Developing a Web content system

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