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Many users desire
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greater control over the tabs
displayed in the MegaEdit left pane,
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with some even wishing to disable
it completely for certain products.
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So the tabs that are displayed in that
left pane depend on a number of factors.
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This includes things such as customer
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role of the user
that's viewing the MegaEdit product.
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It could be the MegaEdit product settings
and it can be the viewer
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rights or the viewing rights
of the resources that have been shown
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within that left pane.
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So things like clip art, some backgrounds
and layouts in this tutorial
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will dig deeper into the factors and learn
how to control what you see in the mega.
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Edit Left pane.
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So the very simple example product
we've got up here is showing
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the essentially default left pane
for a fairly well fleshed out product.
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So whether our resources
are associated with the product
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shown here is the default configuration
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of the left pane with most resource types
included in the MegaEdit product
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tabs will generally be hidden
until their content is required.
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For example, you won't see clip parts,
backgrounds or layouts
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unless those assets are relevant
to this particular MegaEdit product.
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It's important to note
that when viewing a MegaEdit products
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as an administrator,
you will always see the MegaEdit left pane
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regardless of the configuration
configuration options discussed here.
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This applies even when emulating the
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what the user sees.
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The only way to gain a true user
representation of the experience
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with the MegaEdit left
pane is to log in as that user
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and then access the product.
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So what we're going to do to begin
with is start disabling unwanted tabs.
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And we do this by going to menu
and then to product options.
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Now remember that any of these options
which are below the admin product options
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will not be seen by your end users.
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Scroll down this long list of options
and so you'll find a section called
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Left Pane.
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And then we're going to uncheck a few of
these options so we can say
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layout tab.
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So this toggles the display
of the layout tab which allows pre
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specified page element configurations.
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We can uncheck the gallery tab.
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Now this is also linked
with the compute hide gallery tab.
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So this kind of hides
it based on scenario.
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This is sort of a catchall show
or hide the gallery tab.
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So the gallery tab allows users to go out
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and select imagery from the user albums
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and we can also disable
or hide the drawing tool.
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So it will get rid of those as well.
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Now what we also have on
here is a tab display order.
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So administrators
have the ability to control the order
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in which tabs are displayed
on that left pane.
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So it's quite simple to place the
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is quite simple.
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You just place the tab name
followed by a colon
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and then an ID of its position.
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And then you separate
those different entities
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with a comma delimited
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format.
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So for example,
you can see in here already
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we've got this section here
which looks at zoom in slightly,
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which looks at the custom tab
and that's the zero position.
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Then there's a common limit field
that's position
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one gallery position two and so on.
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And you can reorder this or recreate it
as you see fit.
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So bear in mind
that simply removing entries from here
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will not cause the tabs to disappear,
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scrolling a bit further
down to the styling features.
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So this section allows direct toggling
of many of those MegaEdit left pane tabs.
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So first off, we're going to
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look at the toggle tools tab
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so I can turn those off, toggle fields tab
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and toggle pages tab.
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And again,
you can amend this configuration
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as you like
if you want certain pages to be displayed.
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Once you've completed
that configuration, click Save
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and you'll see immediately
that a lot of these tabs disappear.
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However, if you want to make sure
you've got the absolute up to date
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experience, click on the button,
which comes up saying
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Reload. Now.
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So as we can see,
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the majority of those tabs
have now been removed from the left pane.
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The remaining tabs
are those associated with resources
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we have within this particular
MegaEdit product.
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So in this example,
we have some cliparts
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and we have some backgrounds specified
so that tabs do remain
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any resources such as clip arts
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have to be created with either admin
only or admin and user access rights.
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As such,
when logged in as an administrator,
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you will always see these tabs.
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So I'm just going to quickly
click on emulate user mode under the menu.
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So emulate user mode
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allows you to interact with the products
the same way your end user was.
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However, please do note that even when
using the emulation mode inside MegaEdit
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the admin tabs will still persist.
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Okay.
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So a large factor in the content shown
within the MegaEdit left
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pane is the admin status
of the associated resource. It's
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now in this example,
we're just going to navigate
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to our clipart categories,
which is within MegaEdit general data
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clip art categories.
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And I've got a list of them here.
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So this is going to focus on
clipart categories,
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but the same kind of logic applies
to most of the resources within mega.
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Edit So you'll see this column here show
only for admins
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if that is set to true those resources
and their associated tabs
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in the MegaEdit left
pane will be hidden from general users
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if this is set to false, users
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will see
and can interact with those resources
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and you can switch the status of those
either when you add a new record
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or if you want to edit an existing one,
click on edit, change
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the checkbox and click update.
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Here.
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We've set up a few basic examples to show
how these configurations of settings
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might impact what your end user sees
when accessing your MegaEdit product.
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So just to clarify here,
we all logged in as the end user
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with no administrator rights
at this particular stage.
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All of the following MegaEdit
editor windows are viewed
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from the user perspective.
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So our first example here
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here we have not modified
the product options to hide certain tabs.
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So you can see we can still see
the majority of the tabs and the resources
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are set to be accessible
to both administrators and general users.
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So as we can see that
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a range of tabs are available
on the left pane, and this includes tabs
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such as cliparts and backgrounds
which contain
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those artwork resources.
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Moving on to example two here,
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the tab toggles in the product
options have been modified
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to hide all of the available tabs
from that configuration.
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You can see that
we're only left with our resources tabs
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as all resources are accessible
to users and administrators.
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In this particular example,
those tabs are still visible.
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Example
three has the default tab configuration
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and admin only resources.
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So here
we have the default selection of tabs.
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So you can still see some of the default
tabs such as fields and tools.
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However, the resource tabs
are not being displayed to the end user
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and that is because those resource tabs
such as cliparts are set to admin only
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our fourth
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example has the modified tab configuration
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and admin only resource sets.
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As all of the tabs are now disabled,
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the left pane is no longer required
and is completely hidden from view
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for the end user, so they're not even able
to access an empty version
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of the frame.
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Now Example
five goes into this in a bit more detail.
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So this is a product created
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from an Invent source.
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It's got the modified tab configuration.
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So you can see
most of our tabs have been hidden
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and this time the resources
are set to be accessible to all use.
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So admin and general users.
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So most tabs have been hidden
with those product options.
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However, we still see those resource tabs
as they are accessible for the end user.
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This Invent product was set up
utilizing a form.
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As a result, resources can be switched
from two different locations.
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Using this product configuration.
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So we can change the clipart, for example, over on
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the left hand side, or we
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can add new resources, new cliparts
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and we can change our existing quick parts
over on the right hand side.
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As we set that up in a previous form.
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And finally, example number six
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and we'll see this configuration
quite a lot from customers.
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So this again is from an Invent product,
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but now we've got it where
we've modified the tab configuration.
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So we're not showing any of the
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any of the general tabs
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and our resources are set to be admin
only resources.
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Now again,
this was an example created using Invent.
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The left pane is completely hidden
as there are no active tabs,
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so the product options are set to hide
all the tabs
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and the resources are set to admin only.
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However, despite being set as admin
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only, resources can still be switched
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using the preconfigured
Invent form over on the right hand side,
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which is linked to a resource
set inside Invent itself.
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So this is a great way to actually display
your products if you're utilizing Invent
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or the form builder inside
MegaEdit itself,
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you can completely get rid of the left
pane inside MegaEdit and allow users
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just to control things in the way
you want them to change things.