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Advanced Toolbar Options

Enable Editing Without the Toolbar

You can let your users edit your pages without installing the toolbar (just like the demo page). To enable it all you need to do is:

Set the CheckForToolbar node of the XML settings file to "true". Set to "false" to disable this option.

Place this code block at the top of the page:

     <script language="javascript">
            t=setTimeout("ToolbarCheck();",2000,"javascript")
     </script>
     <script id="NoToolbarScript" src="/includes/NoToolbar.js"></script>

Place the provided NoToolbar.js file in the appropriate directory.

Using Standard HTML Form Elements

You can use SELECT tags and INPUT tags of any type to pass content to the Target page if you wish. You simply have to set the id attribute of these tags to your editID value. TEXTAREA tags cannot be used.

example:

<INPUT name="example" type="checkbox" ID="editSpace" value="1" CHECKED>

The supplied "Saver.asp" page will not save this data, however the value of this input tag will be submitted with its name along with the rest of the content. If you wished to use this information you would have to write your own script to do so. This content will not be submitted by users who are editing without the toolbar (see above).

Using the Toolbar to Edit Content Within a Frameset

Place a metatag on the page that contains the frameset:

<META ID="ATeditFrame" VALUE="contentFrame">

Where "contentFrame" is the name of the frame that contains the content you want to edit. Set up the editable page in the standard way as described here. The frameset must be completely within one domain for this to work, like this:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
     <META ID="ATeditFrame" VALUE="contentFrame">
     <TITLE>Frame Example</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET rows="20%,80%">
<FRAME SRC="top.html" name="topFrame">
<FRAME SRC="demo.asp" name="contentFrame">
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

Adding Custom Functionality to the Toolbar

You can add as many entries as you want to the dropdown button by adding this node to the XML settings file inside the <EditSave> node:

<CustomOptions>
       <CustomOption>
             <OptionLocation>MyPage.asp?do=Add</OptionLocation>
             <OptionName>My Name</OptionName>
             <Popup>True</Popup>
             <ShowToolbars>True</ShowToolbars>
             <HSize>500</HSize>
             <VSize>500</VSize>
     </CustomOption>
</CustomOptions>

You can add as many <CustomOption> nodes as you wish. When the user selects these options they will be taken to a popup page specified in OptionLocation. If Popup is false then the current browser window will navigate to the specified location.

Using a custom Hyperlink form with the Toolbar

You can use your own Hyperlink box with the Toolbar by changing the <UsePopup> node of the <Links> node to "True" in the XML settings file. You can also set the URL and size of the pop up box. An example Javascript based Links.htm page is included with the SDK that should get you started.