Editing the content in a room
The Room Editor has the same layout and content that patrons will see when they view the Rooms interface. The navigation panel displays the room tree for the current profile. The other boxes contain the content for the room.
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When you edit the content of a room, you should only open the HTML editor in one content area at a time. When you save your work in one content area, the other content areas are reverted to the last saved version, so any changes you made in those areas will be lost. |
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Changes you make to the room tree structure or to room content will not be available to patrons until you run the SD_CONTENT_EXTRACTOR task. For more information, see Scheduled Tasks. |
To edit the content in a room
- Log in to the Admin Console.
- Choose Rooms from the navigation pane.
- Select the profile in which you want to work.
- Navigate to the room in which you want to edit the room contents.
- Click Edit Room Content in the room’s options.
- Click Edit in the content area you want to revise.
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Use the editor to make the changes. For more information, see Fields: Room Viewer.
The content editor is a WYSIWYG HTML editor. You can author in the graphic mode or change to the HTML mode to create and edit content.
Important: If you copy text from an external editor, such as Microsoft Word or other word processor programs, and paste it into room content areas, you may experience formatting errors (for example, columns may not align as expected, fonts may not match, and so on).
To avoid these errors, you can use the Paste as Plain Text command button and then format the text, or you can paste from an external editor and then use the Edit HTML Source command button and delete any unwanted formatting information in the HTML Source. For more information, see Fields: Room Viewer.
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When you have finished, click Save.
The changes you made are saved and the editor closes.
Adding phone numbers as links
If you want your patrons who are using mobile devices to be able to tap a phone number to make a call, whether for Apple or Android, you will need to surround the phone number with an <a> tag with the "tel:" protocol in the “href” attribute. For example, the phone number 555-555-5555 needs to be entered as <a href="tel:555-555-5555">555-555-5555</a>.