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Contents of this page: General functions | Choosing language | Selecting a table | Selecting an existing entry | Editing an entry | Submitting changes | Adding a new entry | Copying an entry | Making an entry visible/unvisible | Deleting an entry | Help and other functions
General functions
Choosing the language of the user interface
In the opening screen of the QZAdmin you can easily change the language, displaying all QZAdmin interface features in that language, including the help files. At present, an English, Dutch and Papiamentu interface are available.
Note that this doesn't translate the contents of the site.
Selecting a table
The horizontal table bar shows the 9 tables where the data are stored.
By clicking on a table name, the start menu of that table is opened. You can choose to edit existing entries or add new entries to the table.
Wherever you are editing, the name of the table and website are visible in the page title, as well as in the title bar and task bar of your screen.
This feature makes orientation easier if you are editing different tables or different websites in multiple screens.
Selecting an existing entry
After selecting a table, a list is shown of the entries presently existing in the table.
 Editing an entry
Upon selection of an entry, most browsers will show the data of the entry instantly. You can immediately go on with making changes.
If you use a browser that cannot handle this 'onchange' javascript extention, you have to perform an extra action: pressing the button 'Edit entry'.
 Submitting changes
Input or change of data in the data fields in itself doesn't result in changes in the website yet.
To activate changes, you always have to press the button 'Submit changes'.
If you leave or close the screen without having performed this action, all changes made will be lost!
After pressing the button, the editing screen concerned remains active, with a notification whether the changes were successfully carried through or not.
Check always the result of the performed changes at the frontend of the website, visible to the public. If the page concerned was already opened in your browser, don't forget to press the button 'Reload'.
As the editing screen at the backend remains active, you can easily make possible necessary corrections by repeating all actions.
 Adding a new entry
New entries can be added to the table by pressing the button 'Add new entry'. In the appearing screen, all data fields are empty.
After input of the data, you have to press the button 'Submit changes'. If you don't, no new entry will be added to the table.
A neat alternative for adding entries is the copy function described below.
 Copying an entry
With the Copy entry function you can create new entries based on the data of existing entries. By pressing the button, a new entry with the working title 'Copy of ..' is added to the table instantly. All data of the original entry are taken over in the new entry. Subsequently, you can rename and edit the new entry.
The copy function is very handy in all tables, but is indispénsable if you quickly want to experiment with variations of existing sitestyles or for making backups of entries before changing them.
Please note:
When copying an entry, the value of the checkbox 'Visible on website' (see below) will be copied as well.- Copying visible entries in the tables 'news', 'button' and 'link' will have the annoying result that these entries will appear twice on the frontend. It is therefore important, immediately after copying, to inactivate the checkbox 'Visible on website' of the copied entry. Press the 'Submit changes' button to confirm this change.
- A clever alternative is to first inactivate the checkbox 'Visible on website' in the original entry (without submitting this change) and then press the copy button. It will have the same result and avoids the annoying problem.
Making an entry visible/unvisible
Entries in the tables 'Page', 'News', 'Link' and 'Button' can be made visible or unvisible at the frontend of the website by activating or inactivating the checkbox 'Visible on website'.
With this feature you have the possibility to enter draft entries, unvisible for the outside world, first to be activated upon completion.
Outdated entries don't need to be deleted necessarily, but can in this way be inactivated and kept for possible re-use later.
 Deleting an entry
Deleting an entry is done by pressing the button 'Delete entry'. Before definitely deleting the entry, you will be asked to confirm this action.
The delete option is not availabe in the 'Sitestyle' menu, to avoid a possible crash of the site.
The option isn't available in the 'Page' menu as well, as a precaution to avoid 'dead buttons' on the site. Entries in the page table shall therefore be made unvisible on the frontend of the site (by means of the option described above) and the data shall be removed. Subsequently, the entry is ready for re-use.
If an entry is deleted, the ID number of the entry in the database is blocked: entries which are added later on cannot get the same ID number. This avoids the annoying problem that visitors would see wrong information when directed to your site by 'old' links on other sites (e.g. search engines).
If an ID number in such a link doesn't exist any longer on your site, visitors will automatically be redirected to the Default Error Page of your site. You can define or adjust this page in the 'Defaults' menu.
Help and other functions
The top bar of the QZAdmin contains three hyperlinks:- Home refers to the opening screen of the QZAdmin.
- The next link will direct you to the frontend of your QwikZite.
- Manual refers to this manual, which is part of QwikZite.Net, the support site and meeting place for users and developers of QwikZite.
The Help-link is context-sensitive i.e. instantly directs you to the page in the manual dealing with the table you are editing.
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