Manual: Internals-Properties

Understanding and Using Properties Mode

A RidgeStar Interactive Site is made up of a series of web pages each of which contains quite specific logic (as determined by the page's objective), but will also utilize shared or "common" code that is shared amongst pages within the site and across all of RidgeStar itself. Properties mode is how you can determine which groupings of code (dubbed "Classes") or other page elements that are utilized on any given page.

Turning ON Properties mode

You can activate Properties mode by adding the keyword sequence "properties=1" to any interactive page. You need to understand how HTTP uses the question mark (?) and ampersand (&) to separate keywords from the page name, but here's an example using this page of what you'd put in the Address/Location area:

https://www.ridgestar.com/propertiesmode.php?properties=1

Turning OFF Properties mode

To disable properties mode, add the keyword sequence "properties=0" to any interactive page, as

https://www.ridgestar.com/propertiesmode.php?properties=0

What happens when Properties is on?

PageText is Tag=Text Manual: Internals-Properties.Bottom

Properties Mode displays the Form code utilized by the Page to store Criteria elements (if active), then common routines (the "Classes") and versions of same associated with the page you are retrieving from the Server. Clicking on the hyperlinked Class name will provide a brief summary of code maintenance activity for the selected Class.

It will also show you any Pagetext elements that exist (and, thus, can be overridden via a suitable named Topic) within the page. PageText "Text" will be identified via use of the symbol immediately followed by the identify of the Topics tag that will override the content. For most Sites with Feature=PageText active, the actual text that makes up the PageText element will be started and ended with a small horizontal line of short, gray dashes.

Because you have the properties mode active...

Feature=PageText has generated the line above stating PageText is Tag=Text Manual: Internals-Properties.Bottom. Thus, if this was your site to maintain, you could override the static text identified between the dotted lines (------) by allocating a Topic with the Tag string listed.

This page also lists the active Form value and code Classes at the bottom of the page following the Symbol

To disable Properties mode and return the output content to the standard view a typical Visitor would receive, turn off Properties mode as described in the paragraph titled "Turning OFF Properties mode" towards the bottom of this page.