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diff --git a/quanta/data/doc/templates.html b/quanta/data/doc/templates.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3043187e --- /dev/null +++ b/quanta/data/doc/templates.html @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +<html> +<head> + <title>Konquer the Web with Quanta!</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="konq.css" type="text/css" /> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="quanta.css" type="text/css" /> +</head> +<body BGCOLOR=#3679AD LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=5> +<a name="top"></a> +<div style="position:absolute; left: 0px; top: 5px; right: 0px; bottom: 500px;"> +<table BORDER=0 WIDTH=100% CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0> + <colgroup> + <col WIDTH=170> + <col WIDTH=20> + <col WIDTH=309> + <col WIDTH=*> + </colgroup> + <tr HEIGHT=24> + <td BGCOLOR=#505050 ALIGN=RIGHT><img width="77" height="22" src="aniquanta.gif" border="0"></td> + <td class="deco" BGCOLOR=#505050 COLSPAN=3>Konquer the Web with Quanta!</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td WIDTH=190 COLSPAN=2 ROWSPAN=2> </td> + <td BGCOLOR=#DDDDDD><img WIDTH=309 HEIGHT=77 SRC="quantahdr.png"></td> + <td BGCOLOR=#DDDDDD BACKGROUND="lines.png"><img src="webdev.png" width="135" height="77" border="0"></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#505050 ALIGN=RIGHT HEIGHT=22> + <table BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0> + <tr> + <td HEIGHT=20 class="menu"> <a class="menu" HREF="intro.html">Introduction</a> </td><!-- Introduction --> + <td HEIGHT=20 class="menu">|</td> + <td HEIGHT=20 class="menu"> <a class="menu" HREF="faq.html">FAQ</a> </td><!-- Introduction --> + <td HEIGHT=20 class="menu">|</td> + <td HEIGHT=20 class="menu"> <a class="menu" HREF="tips.html">Tips</a> </td><!-- Tips --> + <td HEIGHT=20 class="menu">|</td> + <td HEIGHT=20 class="menuactive"> Where we're going </td> + <td HEIGHT=20 class="menu">|</td> + <td HEIGHT=20 class="menu"> <a class="menu" HREF="developer.html">Developer Info</a> </td><!-- Specifications --> + <td HEIGHT=20 class="menu"> </td> + </tr> + </table> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td COLSPAN=2 WIDTH=190></td> + <td COLSPAN=2 class="shadow1" HEIGHT=9 COLSPAN=4></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td COLSPAN=2 WIDTH=190></td> + <td COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT=41 COLSPAN=4></td> + </tr> +</table> +<!-- end of header --> + +<TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0> +<TR> + <TD WIDTH=190></TD> + <TD class="trans" BGCOLOR=#D0DFEC> + + <TABLE WIDTH= 100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0> + <TR> + <TD HEIGHT=20 WIDTH=20> </TD> + <TD> </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD WIDTH=20> </TD> + <TD VALIGN=TOP> + +<!-- here comes the content --> + +<P><H2>Quanta Plus Templates<H2></P> +<p class="minihdr">Template description +</p> +<p>Templates are basically skeleton documents, code snippets and files to link to. Quanta +uses templates fundementally as a standard file system with enhanced organization and interfacing. +You can copy, move or link any repository currently on your system into the templates tree. +Think of Quanta templates as having roughly the limitations to your imagination that your file system +has. +</p> +<p>Templates exist in nested directories. There is no limit to how deep you can nest them however +within any given directory Quanta expects a consistent action for the base template type described +below. Additionally templates allow for <i>pre</i> and <i>post</i> text to be concatonated to +non document type templates. This facilitates tag creation. The next update after the introduction +is scheduled to add the ability to pass variables to the text such as image size information to +assist in tag creation. +</p> +<p class="minihdr">Template types +</p> +<p>Currently templates are limited to being one of the following types of objects: +<ul> + <li>Document </li> + <li>Text to insert in a document </li> + <li>A file to link to from a document </li> +</ul> +Documents can be any type of document. Generally you would want to nest more specific or diverse +documents in subdirectories. Here you can make a basic framework for what you do and deliver it +to your work in an organized fashion and realize much better effiency. Text insertion could be +anything from a snippet of code to a script or whatever you might wish to use. Note also this overlaps +the ability to insert text blocks as an action which can be triggered from the toolbar. Linked files +can be binary, PHP class libraries or whatever. +</p> +<p class="minihdr">Template scope +</p> +<p> Templates are scoped into three general categories: Global, Local and Project. +<ul> + <li>Global - Available to all folks all the time. </li> + <li>Local - Available to a specific user (maybe others if they can see it where it + exists in the file system). </li> + <li>Project - Available to the associated project only. </li> +</ul> +</p> +<p class="minihdr">Creating templates +</p> +<p>Create a document structure that you love (XML, HTML, DocBook, etc.) and + click on File->Save as Template->Save as Local/Project Template. +</p> +<p> Once this is done, you'll notice that (even if it's saved as a Project template) + the template does NOT show in the project tab view. Look into the templates view + to find your template under the Project templates tab. +</p> +<p>Additinoally if you look at your options with the Right Mouse Button (RMB) you +will see complete file management tools for creatind directories or copying and pasting +templates from one location to another. +</p> +<p class="minihdr">Using templates with Projects +</p> +<p>Project templates allow you to be more tightly focused. You can create headers, footers +or go dynamic with PHP include files and link them. Additionally there are some very +cool things we took into consideration when using templates in projects. +<ul> + <li>When creating a project you can opt to copy over all global and user templates. </li> + <li>Legacy project get default templating abilities so nothing is lost </li> + <li>You can choose where to locate your template files so they can be in your server root + and easy to upload or you can make them secure to link to below server root which is a + very cool trick </li> + <li>When linking to a file not in the project templates you will be prompted to copy + the file to the project templates prior to linking. This will prevent broken links on upload. </li> + <li>You always have control where you place your templates so you can choose to move them. + However Quanta does not track this so you will need to change links. This is a good + task for kfilereplace which we are setting up to plug in as a kpart. </li> +</ul> +</p> +<p class="minihdr">Templates conclusion +</p> +<p>Our goal with templates is to extend them to include multi file "concept" templates useful +for things like placing an order or creating an about section, Ideally this will be a tool for +making your work more productive and dynamic. An eventual goal is to have a structural template +design mode to deal with site layout and structure which you could use to design and interactively +update your sites. If you would like to be involved contact us. +</p> +<br> + <IMG WIDTH=16 HEIGHT=16 BORDER=0 SRC="more.png"> <A HREF="developer.html">Continue</A> + +<!-- End of text --> + + + </TD> + <TD WIDTH=20> </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD HEIGHT=20 WIDTH=20> </TD> + <TD> </TD> + </TR> + +</TABLE> + + </TD> + <TD WIDTH=20> </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD HEIGHT=91 COLSPAN=3> </TD> + </TR> +</TR> +</TABLE> + +<TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0> +<TR> +<TD class="end" WIDTH=*> </TD> +<TD WIDTH=204><A HREF="http://www.kde.org"> <IMG WIDTH=204 BORDER=0 HEIGHT=57 +SRC="kdelogo2.png"></A></TD> +</TR> +<TR> + <TD HEIGHT=50 COLSPAN=2> </TD> +</TR> +</TABLE> +</div> + +</BODY> +</HTML> |