Panels section:

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The panels section (panels management) let you to insert, edit and delete left, right and central panels for your website (you can insert three different type of panels: personalized, expansion and some predefined panels).

The panels can be placed in the left, in the right or in the center of the pages (in the center only for home page).
The panels for a generic page will appear only if in the page there is enabled the left or right panels (see pages section).

An example of panels its showed in picture 1, here you can see the newsletter subscription panel and the user login panel.

To enter in the panels section click the "Panels management" icon from control panel and three lists of panels will be shown (left, center and right panels lists) (see picture 2).


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From panels lists you can click on the icons in the left to move up and down a panel and change its position, you can click on the icons in the right to enable/disable, edit or delete an existing panel. To add a new panel you must click on "Add new panel", the "Add a new panel" form will appear (see picture 3).


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From "Add a new panel" form you can insert a new panel by filling the follows fields:

Title The title of the panel
Language The panel will shown only if the choosen website language its the same of a selected language (for example if you create a panel with "Italian" language, the panel will shown only when a visitors choose "Italian" as language for the website).
Type

There are three main types of panels: personalized, expansion and predefined panels.

A personalized panel have static HTML (or plain text) contents that the administrator can enter directly in the "Text" field.

An expansion panel have dynamic PHP contents. When you select expansion as panel type an expansion menu field will shown, from this menu you must select an existing expansion. To create an expansion see the developer manual.

An predefined panel its a panel with different contents already integrated into Webmatic.
A predefined panel can be:

Birthday This panel show all the user that celebrate the birtday today
Channels

Show website channels

Commerce Show the ecommerce products
Fortune The fortune panel (show a random famous quote)
Horoscope An horoscope panel
Language This panel lets to change the website language
Login The user login panel
Messages A panel with messages
Newsletter A newsletter subscription panel
RSS Feed A panel with varius RSS feeds
Search A website search panel
Send to friend A send to friend (signal website) panel
Special offer This panel show only ecommerce product marked as special offer
Survey A survey panel. If you choose "Survey" as panel type a "Linked to survey" menu will be showed, from here you can link the panel with an existing survey. See survey section.
Enable If unchecked the panel its not visible
Position The position of the panel in comparison to the other panels, (a panel in position 1 will appear the first in the pages, a panel with position 2 for second and so one).
You can also modify the position of a panel using the up and down buttons in the panels lists or when you edit a panel (see picture 2).
Align With this field you can choose where to put the panel (in the center, left or right of a page), if you choose center the panel will appear only in the home page (in the center).
Render mode The panel render mode can be: HTML, plain text, plain text with BBcode and HTML with BBcode
Panel head Panel header, will be rendered before the panel content
Text The static HTML (or plain text) panel content (only for personalized panels)
Panel foot Panel foot, will be rendered after the panel content

After, click on "Insert" to save the panel (fix any errors if needed).