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Created on: Jun 13, 2008

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Rev Published: Jul 17, 2009

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This document describes the settings for the BU template.

Any area of the university's web space that is hosted in Silva can customize the presentation and content of the university template. Any area that does so is called a 'site'.

Property	Description	Effect (Screenshot)
Site Title	The title of the site. The site title appears in the black header at the top of every page, and is the same for every page within a site. This title typically the name of the office, department or program the site is for.
School	If this site is part of a school, make sure this property is specified appropriately. This will change the colors of the "title in bu-content-area", as well as placing a logo below the left menubar and left menubar footer.
Seminary Subtitle		Ed. Note: only appears if 'school'=sem
Display page title in title bar Ed. Note: CSS for Title in bu-content-area has been removed in the new 'bu-layout'.	The document or page title can be displayed on the page in a colored bar directly below the top header, and to the right of the left menubar. You can change the background and font color of this title by specifying appropriate CSS values in the second property. NOTE: if school colors are desired, don't set the CSS with this property but instead set the 'school' property.
Submenu Ed. Note: this is now "menu above content"	A site can have a horizontal list of links which are displayed right-aligned immediately below the "title in bu-content-area", or immediately above the page title if that property is not being used. This list of links can be generated by specify one of the menus in the list (preferred, use 'submenu'), or by specifying a script. Further documentation on using this feature.
Display "Menuy Above Content" in title bar
Menu Below Content
Fixed Width	The width of the template can be specified using this property. The value is in pixels (px). Common settings are 700 and 800. If left blank, the template will have a flexible width (i.e. will become wider or thinner based on the width of the browser window.)	Fixed Width: Blank left empty:
Display Personal Bar	The Personal Bar is directly below the header. On the left is a salutation and login/logout link, while on the right is the site's menubar.
Display Welcome	The welcome text is displayed on the left of the personal bar, and normally has text similar to: 'Welcome Mike: logout' or 'Welcome Guest: login'.
Menu In Personal Bar	Site-specific menubar is on the right side of the personal bar. Typically this is used for sites that are more like "web applications" rather than informational websites. Either a menu or custom script can be used for this menubar. It currently does not support dropdown links.
Display Left Menubar	The left menubar contains the left navigation menu (i.e. 'defaultMenu'). It can have something above and below the left navigation menu, which is generated by a script. If the 'school' property is specified, a logo linking back to the school website will appear below the left menubar footer.
Left Menubar Header	Content that is displayed above the left menubar. Generated by a script.
Left Menubar Footer	Content that is displayed below the left menubar. Generated by a script.
Include Prototype JS	Include Prototype JS if you will be using the Random Content CS in your site. This adds about 10K to the "over-the-wire" size of every document. This is also used with the "Open in New Window JS" external source.	None Available.
Include Calendar Popup Scripts	Set this property to "yes" if your site contains an application which uses the javascript based popup calendar.
Site is in Zope	Set to 'no' if the site is for an external web application which uses the PortalAPI.	None Available.
Simple logout	When set to 'yes', 'logout' link in the personal bar will log the client out of the current site. This is useful for websites that allow guest access, as the client is redirected back to the page and the "welcome" area of the personbar states "welcome guest". If 'no' (default), the user is logged out of the current site and the enterprise authentication system.	The public calendar uses this property.
Login/out using relative url	Use relative url for login/logout urls. This uses the base url (placed by zope) and appends '/logout' or '/login'. In other words, in the html this link is only '/logout' or '/login'.	The examtaker uses this property.
Display Backlink to BLink	Display a link back to BLink only if the user just came from there?	Used in the news articles site.
Use Absoltue URLs to stylesheets	In the old ZODB-base template system, this is used to assist external web applications utilizing the PortalAPI to load page assets like stylesheets. Not used in the SilvaLayout-based template system.	None Available.