Properties Pane

The properties pane displays useful information about the currently selected object in the site hierarchy, workspace, site assets pane, or toolbox. You can show or hide the properties pane from the View menu.

The information displayed in the properties pane is divided into categories, depending on the current object. Figure shows the property categories for a node in the site hierarchy called "Careers." They are "Web site," "Section," and "Custom section properties." Other selected objects have different property categories. You can use the plus and minus symbols to expand or collapse the property categories to show or hide the properties and their values.

Property Categories

Description of Property Categories

The properties shown differ for each property category. For example, for the site hierarchy, it displays the site ID and label, Cgi URL, home page, default placeholder definition, and so on (Figure). For page templates, it displays information about the site assets, HTML tags, scripting tags, and fragments on the page. The site asset properties are shown as you work in design view so that you can see what is happening behind the scenes and make precise edits to specific tags.

Properties and Their Values

Description of Properties and Their Values

You can use the properties pane to view and edit various settings on your Web site, including the site hierarchy, primary pages and secondary pages, and the contents of site templates (HTML, scripts, fragments, and so forth) while working in design view. The properties pane is extremely useful to edit the contents of site templates (page templates, subtemplates, and region templates), especially when those changes cannot be performed directly in design view. Examples of this include background color, page margins, and table width.

You can use the icons at the top of the properties pane to show all properties in alphabetical order (by name) or categorized into groups of related properties. The values of some properties may be edited. These are shown in black. If a property cannot be edited, it is grayed out.

If you click a different area of a page template, region template, or subtemplate (while in design view), or a separate site asset, a different tag with different attributes displays instead. You can view the attributes of a parent tag by selecting it from the drop-down list at the top of the properties pane.

You can also use the Manager application to modify properties that relate to the site hierarchy. See Site Studio Manager for more information.