Editable regions on dwt?

[Marindi]

I'm doing my first DWT, putting header on top and navigation on left - both
as non-editable regions. In my middle (contents) section, I will display a
number of different pages. none of them require users to change anything as
such, but quite a few of them are access pages for tools where the users will
e.g. enter a reference number and the next page will display relevant info /
reports/ etc. or they are pages that the user do data capturing on. Question
- do I make the contents section an Editable region?

 

[Murray]

Yes.

But your concept of this is a bit squishy. One template controls many child
pages. Each child page carries the non-editable content of the template
page, AND the page-specific content that you add to the editable regions.
You are *not* displaying a different page within the editable region (unless
you actually put an <iframe> in it), you are creating a NEW page to display.

Does that help?

 

[Marindi]

Yes, thanx! I'm still learning about dwt's, and get confused with them and
frames, but I do understand now. Basically each link you follow opens a whole
new page based on the dwt with different sections/regions. I just wasn't sure
whether I should make the contents region editable or not, as people will be
filling in forms etc in the contents. So I will make them editable then. Thx!

 

[Ronx]

You make the contents region editable so that *you* can change the
content. A form will work in a non-editable region just as well as it
works in an editable region.

When you design a DWT, the DWT has no content. It has your banner,
navigation and footer, and anything else you want on *every* page - but
it has no unique content. (I usually put something like "Content goes
here" in the editable regions so that I can see where they are.)

A new page based on a DWT inherits everything in the DWT. The bits in
the non-editable regions cannot be changed, but the bits in the editable
regions can, and usually should, be changed - these bits provide the
unique content on the page. "Editable" relates to the page author who
writes the page content, not to the users who display the page in their
browsers, and who subsequently fill in forms.

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[Marindi]

Ron - thx for the great explanation! I was missing the whole point before...
I now "get it" It's because I was reading up about dwts and they said
editable regions are used eg when someone need to edit some regions on your
page or when they needed to add info etc that I got confused... I understand
that it's got nothing to do with that, it's all about what I'm going to be
doing on other pages that link to the dwt, whether I'm gonna be unique
content to sections etc... thx again!