5. Using Fields

Site Studios capabilities to manage fields is a nice feature. Suppose a document's last modified date should be inserted into the document text. Instead of hard coding the date into the text a field can be used. The date will automatically be updated whenever the document is modified.

Example:

Inserting a field like {Document Modified Short} into this would document resolves to 7-Oct-2004 or another format selected for "Document Modified Short" in the Project Properties Dialog.

There are two categories of fields:

Document fields and
Project fields

Document fields resolves to properties on a document, such as the document title. Document properties are changed by right-clicking a document in the content tree and choosing "Properties...".

Project fields are global for all documents. Project fields include fields like Company Name, Company Address, etc. which usually are used on many pages.

To insert a field into your text, right-click and select "Insert - Field...". This will bring up the Field Dialog from which a field to insert can be selected.

Edit the Welcome page again and change as shown below

When saving the document the Field Project Company will resolve to Alpha Systems.