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Add/Edit My CommonSpot Section

You can customize the My CommonSpot workspace with one or more panels. For example, you might share a convenient set of links as shown below. Creating a custom section is simply a process of using this dialog to supply CommonSpot with a valid URL to display within the My CommonSpot dashboard. Typically, this URL points to a custom file you create using ColdFusion or the language of your choice. Your custom page can reside in any web-accessible location within your domain. To serve content from another domain, point your custom section URL to a local script that uses CFHTTP or another mechanism to request and return outside content.

Note: To avoid potential security conflicts, it’s best not to locate your custom page within CommonSpot. For CommonSpot-sourced content you would typically place this type of content in the /customcf/ directory at the site root.

For other content, use any logical location.

For list data, you can optionally include Show More/Show Less links that display for standard My CommonSpot sections.

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This dialog displays in edit mode for existing custom panels as shown below. Standard CommonSpot panels (My Changes, Changes Pending My Approval, Notifications) are basically non-modifiable. For these sections you can only change the default state and whether and how many More/Less links display.

Complete the following fields.

Section Information

• Title: Required. Labels must be a maximum of 20 characters, including spaces. This is a non-modifiable display field for standard CommonSpot sections.
• Description: Optional. A text description for the custom panel.
• URL: Required for custom sections. Enter a fully qualified URL, for example, http://www.mysite.edu/ourtools.htm
• Default State: Set default display options:

• Enabled: When checked, displays this panel on open. Uncheck to hide.
• Expanded: When checked, renders this panel in expand mode, as shown for Custom Section with Row Data and Local Weather in the example above .
• More/Less Links: Whether this section includes More/Less links.

  Note: Enabling this option for custom panels requires that you create HTML containers for the items within the list. For details see "Adding Custom Panels to My CommonSpot" in the CommonSpot Developer's Guide.

Custom Field Information

• Type: Pick the data type from the dropdown. Selecting a value other than None displays options for labeling the field and setting a default value. Choosing either Single Selection or Multiple Selection displays an additional field for entering selection values, as shown below.

  

• Label: Enter a text identifier for this field
• Default Value: Optional. Specify a commonly used setting.

 

Related Links

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You can download PDF versions of the Content Contributor's, Administrator's, and Elements Reference documents from the support section of paperthin.com (requires login).

The following guides are available from the support site and are in the /docs/directory of your CommonSpot Server:

• Getting Started Guide
• Upgrade Guide
• Release Notes

You can also download these other guides from the support section of paperthin.com (with login):

• Developer's Guide
• Template Developer's Guide
• Shared Database Configuration Guide
• Replication vs Shared Database Guide 

Sites upgrading from versions earlier than release 6.0 should review the following (from the support section of paperthin.com - requires login):

• What's New in CommonSpot 6.0
• CommonSpot 6.0.0 Menu Quick Reference

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For technical support:

http://www.paperthin.com/support/

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