Specifying Titles of Pages

[zee_b]

Hi,

I'm currently using Version 4 and would like to know if there is a simple way to change the Title of each page?

Ideally id like the title to be the same as the .html page name. At present on every page in the catalogue it shows the company name which isnt very descriptive.

Would really appreciate any ideas.

Thanks

Zee

[pinbrook]

I think with V4 you can have

<TITLE>
NETQUOTEVAR:PAGEHEADER, NETQUOTEVAR:PAGETITLE
</TITLE>

PAGEHEADER is your section name
PAGE TITLE is your company name

Try it an see....edit ACT_PRIMARY

[NormanRouxel]

Here's my post on this in the V6 Forum ( see http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5192 ).

I'm pretty sure this works in V4 too.

Try making a CUSTOMVAR (see Advanced / CustomProperties), called, say, SECTIONTITLE. The put CUSTOMVAR:SECTIONTITLE into Act_Primary within the <TITLE> and </TITLE> tags.

Now open a Section / Advanced / Properties, click the "+" and choose SECTIONTITLE. Set its value to the title you want. If using business uncheck Searchable and check Use as CUSTOMVAR.

Norman

[pinbrook]

Woops!! I forgot there were customvars in v4!!

customvars are the way to go

[zee_b]

Hi,

Thanks for your replies. Appreciate that. I shall back up and see how it goes.

As well as this is there anyway i can edit the actual page to include a little bit of text in the header and footer relating to the page as opposed to going straight in to the products?

Thank you once again

Zee

[zee_b]

Hi,

I just checked V4 - does appear to be CUSTOMVARIABLES - unless im looking at the wrong thing - im looking at the Advanced tab, where theres, meta-tags, layout, and the properties . I'm assuming the latter is where i use the drop down?

[NormanRouxel]

Yep. Properties drop-down (after clicking that "+") exposes the defined CUSTOMVARS.

Norman

[Snooze_Shop]

As far as I am aware, CUSTOMVAR's cannot be used within the HEAD tags on V4 - I do hope that I am incorrect as I would love to use them myself for a few purposes. I did notice that in the knowledge base the advice on changing titles is within V6 but not repeated in V4 section.

If anyone is successfully using CUSTOMVAR's within the HEAD tags then I really would appreciate an example. All my other CUSTOMVAR's on Section and Products are fine.

[zee_b]

Hello Snooze

You are quite right. I checked everywhere and i can't find CUSTOMVARs. Downloaded the trial of V6 and it exists there. So i had to use Pinbrooks recommendation.

Thanks to All

On another note - somewhat related: To achieve what i want, im editing the html generated page within Actinic after its uploaded and re-edit it with dreamweaver. However when i change the page in question in actinic it overwrites this.

What if anything can i do?

The Generate HTML button is checked - what is the results if i uncheck it?

Regards

Zee

[Snooze_Shop]

CUSTOMVAR's are in V4 - it just seems that they do not function with HEAD tags!

Explanation?

As regards your new queries, I'll leave them to the experts!

[cbarling]

> Explanation?

There isn't a good one, really. things like this arose simply because of the way the templating system had originally been coded. There were quite a few of these silly little idiosyncrasies in v4. We tried (mostly successfully) to get rid of them in v5.

Chris
Actinic