Help > Pages > Manage Pages and Files - Page Series Manager

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The Page Series Manager is a powerful set of tools that controls many aspects of a timeLines Page Series - scheduled dates, language versions, settings for the footer elements, password protection, members associated with the Page Series, etc. It may take some time to learn all these tools.

There are three rows of information here:

• Title Row:
  • a link back to the folder in the File Manager containing this Page Series
  • the name of the Page Series, with its complete "path" from the web root
• Series Info:
  • the skyLink with HTML code that you paste into a web page to link to the current version (or a static version) of this page.
  • Settings for this page: what shows up in the page footer, etc.
  • Protection sets a password and/or limits access to members
  • Members Associated with this Page Series
  • Number of Requests - combined page hits for all versions of the Pages in this Page Series
• Pages Info:
  • New - creates a page in the series based on the Page Template (may be blank)
  • Clone - creates a page in the series that contains the same HTML as the selected page
  • Clones - creates multiple new pages in the series that are clones of the selected page
  • Upload - lets you browse for a local file to Upload as a new page, or to replace a page if one is selected.
  • skyWrite - opens the skyWriter editor for this page
  • Localize - sets a language for this page
  • Preview - opens a new browser window with this page
  • Reschedule - changes the date this page is timeLined to start serving on the web
  • Now - changes the date of this page to start serving immediately
  • Remove - deletes this page

Beneath the two control rows is a chronological listing of all the Pages in this Page Series. We call this the Master Archive for the Series.

When you first open Series Manager, there is one page/file in the Series, and it is not selected. So several Pages controls are not active links. Only New and Upload are active.

Click on the page to select it (double clicking will open skyWriter).

The selected page reverses to black background, and all page tools become active links (Clone, skyWrite, Localize, Preview, etc.). If you click Clone, you get a new Copy of the page, scheduled to play at some time in the future (settable in Module Preferences).

Note that the currently playing page has a special icon , and the background color is light blue.

Past and future pages have unique icons also, and their background color is white when it is not selected.

When you are Managing Blogs, you have a new controls row labelled View, the Series controls row is now labelled Blog, and the Pages controls row is now labelled Posts.

The three views let you edit the Archive Templates (which has element tags that position the various parts of the blog according to CSS style sheet instructions), the individual Post Templates with similar content elements, and the Posts themselves, which are ordinary HTML pages editable in a skyWriter.

You change the general information in the blog in the Archive Template.

Note that the CSS style sheet is very important for the appearance of the blog. The default style sheet (Blog.css) is kept in the timeLines folder. Create a new one (preferably in a new CSS folder), and use getURL to start with the default style sheet.

See Blog Manager Help for more information.

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