Operation Manual

174 Adding Dynamic Web Objects
Applying Smart Object colors
You can make color changes specifically to your Blog, Forum, or CMS as you
edit or manage them. Each Smart Object type has its own color settings, i.e.
Smart Object How to Configure color
Blog Visual Style drop-down list in Edit - New Blog
dialog.
Forum Forum Themes drop-down list in Manage - My
Forum dialog.
CMS Title, Body, and Info buttons from Edit - New CMS
dialog.
In addition to these color settings you can override your Smart Object's text and
hyperlink colors to match those used by text and hyperlinks in your site. In
doing so your Smart Objects will fit seamlessly with the look and feel of your
site. By default, your site's current scheme's text and hyperlink colors are used
on override.
To override Smart Object's text and hyperlink colors:
1. From the File menu, select Site Properties....
2. From the dialog, select Features.
3. Check Override colors in Smart Objects.
Leaving the Text and Hyperlinks drop-down lists unchanged will use the
currently set scheme colors
(indicated by numbers). However, you can select alternative schemed or non-
schemed colors instead.
Managing Smart objects
While editing Smart objects affects how the object operates, managing Smart
objects can be used to manage the object's "gathered" data when the web page is
published. Some Smart objects such as Hit Counters don't need to be managed
as they just increment on each web visit (you can reset the counters though).
However, other more complex Smart objects, such as Forum, Blog, Resource
Booker, User List, Poll, and Shout Box store collected visitor data such as article
comments, email addresses, poll results, and a chat messaging log.