Interaction Settings

This set of options allows you to set specific behaviours on Interactions as well as do some limited styling.

The following options can be set in this window.

General

These options govern the way the Interaction is set up and arranged.

Name

The internal name for the answerSpace.

A unique name to use for references (links, etc). 

Starting with a letter, use only use letters, numbers, and underscores (_).

Display Name

The name displayed in the Title Bar when the window is opened.

The caption or title to display to users.

Any combination of characters is allowed. Title may be concatenated on multi tab browsers.

Description

Brief description of the purpose of this item.

Order

Value to use when sorting this item in a list.

Value can be of a positive or negative number.

Status

Enable or disable access to this item.

Inactive items are hidden and treated as though they do not exist.

Display

Show or hide this item

 Hidden items are not displayed in lists but are otherwise still accessible.

Help Message

Here you can add a message to display when help button is pressed.

Look & Feel

These options control how the Interaction looks and behaves. Use CSS when prompted without tags.

Icon

This is the Image used to represent the Interaction in the answerSpace.

Logo Banner

When the Interaction is displayed, this is the banner shown in the Header.

Odd Row Style

If the Interaction returns rows of results (such as in a Scrape or a Form View listing), then this controls how odd rows (the first, third, fifth etc.) are displayed, provided the contained Interactions have been set up to be displayed in List View. (See “AnswerSpace Options” for more details or “Styling Your answerSpace”).

Exceptions to this are margin and padding css.

Even Row Style

See above.

Background Style

Will affect the background colour of the box within the answerSpace upon which the Interactions are displayed - NOT the background colour of the Interaction Page. This can be overridden at a lower level, provided ‘Inherit’ has not been turned on. (See “Styling Your answerSpace” for more details).

Interface Style

Affects the background of the Interaction display.

Input Prompt Style

Any input prompts can be styled here.

Interaction Behaviour

This set of options control how Interactions behave within the contained Interaction.

Input Display

Screen or List

Type

Either ‘message’, ‘hyperlink’, mADL code’ or xslt’. The type ‘form’ is a system generated type and should not be manually used.

Message Options:

• Use HTML tags or plain text.

Hyperlink options:

• Type in the path to the external link, or the Interaction name if an internal link.
• Target: Define how the link behaves when clicked.

• Input Prompt: Create an HTML user prompt that the user will fill in to run the mADL interaction defined below.
• Madl code: Enter your mAdl code.

Header, Footer & Sidebar

These options help you style the Header and Footer

Header Style

Non-functional

Footer

A message or image/Link can be put in here (use CSS for the latter).

Footer Style

Non-functional

Localisation

Only use these options if the Interaction will be used by non-English speakers. If in doubt, leave this at the default.

Content Language

Should be left at the default ‘en’ (English) unless this answerSpace will be used by non-English speakers. Make sure the code you enter is correct.

Character Encoding

Leave at default.

Security

This set of options is used when you require users to login to the answerSpace. See “Custom User Logins” before changing any of these options.

Disabled Message

Type in a custom message to use when a user accesses an item that you have disabled, or leave at the default.

Registered Only

Define whether this Interaction (and everything it contains) can only be accessed by registered users. See “Custom User Logins”.

Registered Only Message

Define whether this Interaction (and everything it contains) can only be accessed by registered users. See “Custom User Logins”.

User Groups

Choose which User Groups can access this Interaction and everything it contains.

Advanced

This is where you will input most of the Styling options discussed in “Styling Your answerSpace”.

Style Sheet

You can build a complete CSS style sheet and put it in here. Use the ‘Inspect’ option in your development Browser to identify which elements you wish to style. Many options that you cannot style through the Admin tools discussed above can be directly styled here. See Styling in the Knowledge Base for more information.