Create and store HTML templates for use within your DotNetNuke Portal. Templates are stored in groups for easy organization by theme or content type.  Features collapsible side menu for quick navigation, a preview pane, ability to  imbed audio, video, Flash and more.

 

Overview of Features:

• Templates are stored in Groups for easy organization of themes or content types
• Collapsible Side Menu maximizes screen area for content editing Template preview window within the Side Menu for quick navigation through your template collection
• Smart Save functionality safeguards against accidental loss of data while navigating through templates
• Easily Print, Import and Export Html templates with file system backup of content versions
• Improved User Interface for intuitive access to Navigation Icons and Functions
• Images, Audio and Video, Flash, Powerpoint, Word, Excel and Html files can be imbedded within your Templates with very little understanding or prior knowledge of the Html language structure.

The Template Manager adds many features to manage your website content. 

• Templates are contained within a collapsible menu on the upper left of the module with expandable preview and selection for editing the template.
• Templates are organized within Template Groups for easy navigation
• Commands to manage the selected Template or Template Group are dynamically shown in toolbars across the top of the module

Managing Template Groups:

1. Click the icon to show the options for creating a new group
2. Type the Name of the group
3. Click the Update button to Save your settings and return to the design window
4. To edit a group after creating it, click the icon in the side menu for that group to load the group for editing
   

Creating Templates

1. Click the icon in the side menu for the Group you would like to add a Template to. This will show the Add Template controls.
2. Type a name for the Template
3. Enter the Html Contents for the Template lTo save the new template, click Update
4. To make this template the current module Text that is shown for the module, click Save As Module Text. This will not save the template as a new template, but will update the module text.

Editing Templates

• To select a template for editing, click the Name of the Template in the side menu, after expanding the Group to show the Templates. You can also expand the templates into a preview to make the correct selection easily.
• To Import an Html file for inclusion in this template, click Browse, select a valid Html file from your local computer, and click Import Html to import the file and open it for editing
• To save the new template, click Update to save changes and return to the module
• To save as a new template for another Group, Select a group from the far right drop down list, and click Save As New Template
• To make this template the current module Text that is shown for the module, click Save As Module Text. This will not save the template as a new template, but will update the module text.
• To delete the template, click the Delete button

Using the Content Editor

By default, the template manager uses the same Html content editor as comes packaged with DotNetNuke. The editor component itself is freely available, and is supported to provide a robust interface for managing your content.

If you have experience using Word, you may notice that many of the icons and functions are intuitive.

If you copy and paste html or text content into your template from Word, or other office applications, you must be sure to click the word-clean icon to remove the Office markup tags. If you do not word-clean these documents, your results will contain unexpected characters and formatting.

If you copy and paste from another website or html page, make sure that the html tables and rows are closed properly during the copy. This is a common detail that is overlooked, resulting in improperly formatted content which could also bleed out of the current module into the rest of your web page.