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The Edit Interface

Lets take a quick look at what those definitions on the previous page does when we're in edit mode.

Editing an item

  • Now we are accessing the site's edit interface (/edit) and are editing the start page. 
  • Remember we defined a property named Text? Remember that we gave that property an attribute: EditableFreeTextArea? That attribute is interpreted by the N2 engine and a html editor is displayed when we edit the page without the need to write a single form.

Labels on editable stuff

  • That label saying Text is actually the parameter we gave to the attribute on the property.

Attributes on content items

  • While we're still remembering what we discussed in the previous chapter. The TextPage class was also decorated with an attribute: [Definition]. The attribute tells N2 what type of page is called when we are editing. In this GalleryItem we're creating a new item.

Enough edit mode for now

In the next chapter we'll examine how a template page (aspx) is populated with the content we've added through edit mode.

Notice

Keep in mind that the documentation in this section refers to general N2 development and not particularly about the templates project (clarification).

Next step: 4

In the next step we'll examine how content finds it place on a page