Behavior Editor - Help

Each component has its own Behavior Editor, which allows you to control how it looks and works.

In the left pane you can expand the tree by clicking on the arrows.

The controls are split into three sections:

  • Style - the visual appearance - fonts, colors etc.
  • Settings - controlling what it does.
  • Permissions - which usergroups can see and work with the component.

Within each of these sections, the controls are split into several screens. You choose the screen using the middle pane.

 

Controls 

Each control consists of three parts:

  • Prompt - identifying what it controls.
  • Inherited value - this is the value specified higher up the site tree, which will be used unless you specify something different.
  • Local value - where you can override the inherited value. Local values can be left blank to ensure the inherited value is used instead.

      Prompt                    Inherited value

                    Local value

The value to be used is shown in black, so the inherited value changes from black to gray if it is being overridden locally.*

Permissions

Permissions can be either Unset, Inherited or Applied.
An unset permission is blank.
An inherited value is grey.
An applied value is black.
If you look at the above image you can see all three states.
 
If you apply a value, the 'black' applied value is used - note the Inherited value is not removed from the display - because there will be situations where it is useful to know what the inherited value was.

Inheritance

The ability for a control to use inherited values allows you to centrally manage the site, keeping multiple components consistent without having to set the values individually for each one. Whenever the inherited value is changed, all child controls set to use the inherited value are updated immediately.

To save 

To save changes, click 'Save changes', close the dialog, and refresh the page.

 

* Colors mentioned refer to default themeing, and may differ in your site.