Portal, V6.1

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Displaying Web content

You use Web content tags and placeholders within presentation templates and element designs to display elements and metadata on a Web page.

• Use presentation templates
  You use a presentation template define the layout of elements displayed on a Web page, and to define the default properties of a Web page such as the background and default font of a web page.

• Referencing elements
  You use IBM Lotus WCM tags to reference elements within presentation templates.

• Displaying item details
  You can display the attributes of items, such as the name and modified date, by using Web content tags.

• Writing links to WCM content
  Links to content items can be written as URLs.

• Generating a URL to a site, site area or content item
  The URLCmpnt tag is used to generate a URL to a site, site area or content item.

• Contextual linking
  Contextual linking is used in systems where content from one site is shared across multiple sites. When content is linked into a site, embedded links (link elements and links in HTML) will reference the site the original content item is located in. Contextual linking is used so that when content is linked from another site, the link will be rendered relative to the current site if possible.

• Use custom caching
  You can overrule the default caching parameters of a site by using "cache" and "expire" parameters in URLs and IBM Lotus WCM tags.

• Use style sheets in items
  Style sheets can be used to format the look and feel of IBM Lotus WCM pages in the same way as normal Web Pages.

 

Parent topic

Developing a Web content system

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