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Friday, June 14, 2013PrintSubscribe
Customizing the Footer

The footer is displayed at the bottom of every page in a web app. The text will display a standard copyright message by default.

Default footer copyright text displayed at the bottom of the page.

Let’s customize the footer content.

Changing the Footer Text

Start the web app generator and click on the project name. Select Settings, and click on Features. In the Copyright text box, enter the following:

Property New Value
Copyright
&copy;<b> Code On Time LLC</b> All rights reserved.

Press Finish, and then press Generate to continue regenerating the web app. Notice that the new copyright message is displayed.

The customized footer content displayed at the bottom of the page.

A custom user control may be used when more complex or dynamic content is necessary.

Placing a Custom User Control in the Footer

In the Project Explorer, right-click on Customers / page container node, and press New Control.

Creating a new control in the 'page' container.

Next to the User Control lookup, click on the New User Control icon.

Creating a new user control.

Assign a name to the new user control:

Property Value
Name CustomerFooter

Press OK to save the user control. Press OK to add the control to the Customers page.

Right-click on Customers / page / control1 – CustomerFooter control node, and press Rename.

Renaming the 'control1' control on the Customers page.

Change the name to “footer” and press Enter key to apply the change.

The name of the control has been changed to 'footer'.

On the toolbar, press Browse. Notice that the user control has replaced the footer content.

The user control has replaced the footer content.

Friday, June 14, 2013PrintSubscribe
Customizing the Sidebar

The sidebar is displayed on the left side of every content page. The About box displays a description for the page. The See Also box shows other pages on the same level in the navigation menu. The Summary box displays information about the selected record, if enabled for the specific view.

The sidebar contains the Summary, About, and See Also boxes.

Customizing the About Box

Start the Project Designer. In the Project Explorer, double-click on Customers page node.

Customers page node in the Project Explorer.

Change the About This Page property:

Property New Value
About This Page This page displays a list of customers.

Save the page. On the toolbar, press Browse. Notice that the text in About box has been updated.

The About box text has been updated.

Hiding See Also Box

The See Also box displays links to pages on the same hierarchy level. Let’s hide the See Also box.

In the Project Explorer, double-click on Customers page node.

The Customers page node in the Project Explorer.

Change the following:

Property New Value
Custom Style NoSeeAlso

Press OK to save. On the toolbar, press Browse. Notice that the See Also box has disappeared.

The See Also box is no longer present in the sidebar.

Custom content may be added to the sidebar in the form of a user control.

Placing a Custom User Control in the Sidebar

In the Project Explorer, right-click on Customers / page container node, and press New Control.

Adding a new control to the 'page' container on the Customers page.

Next to the User Control lookup, click on the New User Control icon.

Creating a new user control.

Assign a name to the user control.

Property Value
Name CustomerSidebar

Press OK to save the new user control. Press OK to add the user control to the page.

Right-click on Customers / page / control1 – CustomerSidebar node, and press Rename.

Renaming 'control'1 control on the Customers page.

Change the name to “sidebar”, and press Enter key to apply changes.

The control has been renamed to 'sidebar'.

On the toolbar, press Browse. Notice that the user control is now present in the sidebar.

The user control has been added to the sidebar.

Thursday, June 13, 2013PrintSubscribe
Customizing the Page Title

Every page in a generated web app has a title, displayed directly under the path. To change the page path in the navigation menu, use drag & drop techniques to move the page to the desired location.

Default Title text displayed under the navigation menu.

Let’s change the title of the Customers page.

Specifying a Page Title

Start the Project Designer. In the Project Explorer, double-click on Customers page node.

Customers page node selected in the Project Explorer.

Change the title:

Property New Value
Title Customer List

Press OK to save. On the toolbar, press Browse. Notice that the Customers page title now says “Customer List”.

The new Title text is now applied.

It may be necessary to update the text of the header dynamically. Create a custom user control for complex page title customization.

Placing a Custom User Control in the Title

In the Project Explorer, right-click on Customers / page container node and press New Control.

Creating a new control in the 'page' container of Customers page.

Next to the User Control lookup, click on the New User Control icon.

Creating a new user control.

Assign a user control name:

Property Value
Name CustomerTitle

Press OK to create the user control. Press OK to save the properties of the control instance and have it added to the Customers / page container.

Right-click on the new control Customers / page / control1 – CustomerTitle, and press Rename.

Renaming the 'control1' user control on Customers page.

Change the name to “title” and press Enter key to save changes.

The user control has been renamed to 'title'.

On the toolbar, press Browse. Notice that the title text has been replaced with the custom user control.

The title text has been replaced with a custom user control.

Right-click Customers / page / title – CustomerTitle and press Edit in Visual Studio option in the context menu to start customization.