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What's New

The What's New section is designed to help highlight material new to your collection. It is only available if you have chosen the Default Calmview theme and will not be displayed if you have chosen the Showcase theme.

The What's New section is located on the right hand side of the Calmview home page as shown in this example. Please note: the example screen will open a new window, when you have finished and wish to return to this page, use the cross in the top right corner to close the window.

We recommend having only two records in this section, otherwise the appearance of the Home Page may become unbalanced. "What's New" items are intended as an eye-catching addition to the home page, but members of the public may find it tiresome to scroll through more than two records.

You can show an image, a description and a 'view record' link in the What's New section  for each catalogue record you wish to highlight.

When the link on a What's New item is clicked, the relevant full record view is shown. The text on this link defaults to 'View Record', if you wish to alter this text see What's New on the Homepage in the Pages section.

When you choose the What's New option (underneath Showcases) in the Configurator, a screen as shown in this example, will appear. Please note: the example screen will open a new window, when you have finished and wish to return to this page, use the cross in the top right corner to close the window.

The following paragraphs describe the fields shown here, with some guidance for input. Fields highlighted in red in the Configurator are mandatory.

Image Id

The Thumbnail and/or Image fields on your Calm records will contain the filename, and perhaps some elements of the path, for the images they display. The ImageId field in Calmview should display the same content for those images you wish to highlight. 

Key

The contents of the RefNo field from the Calm Catalogue record that you wish to show in the What's New section.

Description

Text you enter here will be displayed under the image and title of the record in the "What's New" section.

Database

The Calm database that contains the record you wish to highlight, in the "What's New" section the Catalogue database is the only one which may be used. Please note: the catalogue database is called Catalog and this spelling should be used here.

Title

This should be the same content as the Title field of the Calm record that you wish to highlight.