Zone - Main

Implementations may use the zone page to define custom zones. In addition, an implementation may override descriptions or some parameter values for base product zones.

Select Admin > System > Zone to create or maintain a zone.

Description of Page

Specify an easily recognizable Zone identifier and Description. Note that if this zone appears on a portal, this description acts as the zone title.

Override Description is provided if your implementation wishes to override the description of the value provided by the product.

CAUTION:
Important! When introducing a new zone, carefully consider its naming convention. Refer to System Data Naming Convention for more information.

Owner indicates if this zone is owned by the base product or by your implementation (Customer Modification). The system sets the owner to Customer Modification when you add a zone. This information is display-only.

Zone Type identifies the zone type that defines how the zone functions.

Application Service is the application service that is used to provide security for the zone. Refer to Granting Access To Zones for more information.

The Width defines if the zone occupies the Full width of the portal or only Half.

Note: Zones on the dashboard portal are always the width of the dashboard.

If the zone type supports help text, you can use Zone Help Text to describe the zone to the end-users. Note that for multi-query zones, if the multi-query zone has help text, that is displayed for any zone selected. If the multi-query zone does not have help text, but the selected zone has help text, the selected zone’s help text is displayed. Please refer to the section on zone help text for more information on how you can use HTML and cascading style sheets to format the help text.

Use Override Zone Help Text to override the product provided help text for this zone.

Note: Viewing Your Text. You can press the Test button to see how the help text will look when it's displayed in the zone.

The grid contains the zone's parameter values. The Zone Type controls the list of parameters. The grid contains the following fields:

Where Used

Follow this link to open the data dictionary where you can view the tables that reference CI_​​ZONE.