Content Management: Tools - Canter Help

The help that comes with Canter is excellent, but I found some more info while experimenting that may be useful. If nothing else, it's a good reminder for me!

Index Page:

This option tab controls the appearance of the index page(s) which can be generated to provide links to the content pages. Enter the title you want for your index page(s) in the "Page Title" field. You can use HTML tags, such as <BR>, in this field. Canter will make this a Level 1 header and center it.

If you want to use a template for your index page, specify its path and filename here. The file should be a legal HTML page and contain a <CANTER-BOILERPLATE> tag where you want Canter to put the page names.

Note that Canter will use the filename for the link. A file named MySummerVacation.txt will show up as MySummerVacation.txt on the index page.

Boilerplate function:

This function works just like the Index function with the exception that the "Page Title" field will put the same title on every page. Great if you want the same Level 1 heading on every page, but not so great if you want a different one on each page.

Substitutions:

There's probably more, I just haven't discovered them yet.

Miscellaneous notes:

With the exception of the index and boilerplate files, which are HTML, all the content files were plain text, edited using EditPad Classic.

I've included HTML tags within the text file and Canter has converted them flawlessly.