neatComponents - H: Basic site building

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Getting Started
The neatComponents Guide
Building & Styling Applications
- A first app walkthrough and Tutorial
- Finding your way around
- Finding your way around
- How to log in to a site
- The Toolbox
- The Text Editor
- The Behavior Editor
- The Layout Manager
- E-Mail Integration
- Numerical URLs
- DirectURLs
- Ajax
- Using Components
- The different types of Component
- Understanding Embeds
- Caching
- Sections and Inheritance
- Automatically created navigation links
- Graphics and Images
- Editing Tools
- Quick-start Videos
- How to log in to get editing permission
- Understanding your workspace
- Sitewide settings
- Using Themes
- Layout Manager
- The Layout Manager
- Dividing appearance from content with Layout Elements
- Layout Elements
- How to Edit Layout Elements
- Using Navigation Zones
- A Horizontal navigation bar
- A Vertical navigation bar
- Adding fly-out (drop down) menus
- Hiding items from the navigation links
- Dynamic Navigation
- Using Text Zones
- Using Image Zones
- Adding components from the Store to the Bank
- Page techniques
- User Editable Pages
- Demo: Add a page to a site
- How to rename a page
- How to move a page
- How to delete a page
- How to assign a specific URL to a page
- How to redirect to another page, or to another site
- How to change the page Title
- Page heading / Title control
- How to create a splash page
- Editing within pages
- Using the editing tools
- Toolbox
- Text Editor
- Loading the Text Editor
- Basic text editing
- Formatting Text
- Color Picker dialog
- Table dialog
- Working with Tables
- Inserting Images
- Inserting Links and Anchors
- Embedding objects
- Editing HTML
- Inserting inline scripts
- JavaScript and JQuery
- Inserting an I-frame
- Behavior Editor
- Common Styles
- Common Settings
- Themes
- Introduction to Themes
- Getting Started with Themes
- Theme Levels
- How to Activate Themes
- Restricting editing
- Setting edit permissions
- Using Content Approval to regulate updates
- Abstracts
- Using Abstracts to summarize child pages
- Using Abstracts as a secondary column
- Site Navigation
- Navigating the site
- Configuring navigation
- Using DirectURL to provide memorable shortcuts
- Providing a search engine
- Providing a performance monitor
- Displaying a site tree
- Displaying a navigation route - breadcrumbs
- Redirects
- Redirecting traffic from a page
- Redirecting traffic to the first child
- QR codes
- QR codes
- Creating & displaying QR Codes
- Reading QR codes
- QR code techniques
- Other
- Discussion Forum
- Sending Twitter Status Updates
A first app walkthrough
- Tutorial
- Part 1 - How to use your app space
- The walkthrough
- Part 2 - How to create a webpage
- Where is everything?
- Creating the Example Site
- What have I got?
- Simple page editing
- The Layout Manager - Changing the Layout
- The Layout Manager - Adding a component
- Part 3 - How to use a Form and Email
- Creating Forms
- Emailing form data
- Part 4 - How to work with Data and Queries
- Adding a Data Entry Form
- Creating Queries
- Defining Views
- Embed Custom View
- Onward - working with neatComponents
- Working with the system
- A complete Blog system
Functionality
Components
- Components
- Components Reference
- Account
- Account Data Feed
- Account Invoice Data Feed
- Account Payment Data Feed
- Account Transaction Data Feed
- Account Transaction Type Data Feed
- Calendar View
- Cart Item Data Feed
- Category View
- Collapsible Panel
- Content Approval Manager
- Cookie Clear
- Country Data Feed
- Currency Data Feed
- Custom View
- Data Entry Form
- Data Import
- Digital Rights
- DirectURL View
- Drop Down View
- E-R Diagram
- Email Table Loader
- External Sale Connector
- Forum
- IFrame View
- JSON View
- List View
- Logged in / out text
- News Ticker
- OAuth Consumer
- Order Charge Data Feed
- Order Data Feed
- Order Item Data Feed
- Order Payment Data Feed
- Page
- Performance
- Query
- Query - Grid View
- Query by Example
- Redirect View
- Referral Data Feed
- RSS View
- Sale View
- Search
- Search Box
- Search Log Data Feed
- Search View
- Shopping Cart
- Simple Page
- Site Creator
- Site Data Feed
- Site Manager
- Site Tree
- SMS Provider Data Feed
- Surround
- Table
- Theme Selector
- Theme Selector View
- Ticker View
- Total View
- Two Factor Authentication
- Upload
- User Data Feed
- User Log-In
- User Group Manager
- User Manager
- User Membership Data Feed
- vCard View
Actions
- Actions
- Getting Started with Actions
- Actions Reference
- Account Transaction
- Bind PDF Files
- Clear Site Cache
- Create CSV File
- Create PDF File
- Create User
- Data Import
- Delete Record
- FTP - Create Directory
- FTP - Delete Directory
- FTP - Delete File
- FTP - Export File
- FTP - Import Directory
- FTP - Import File
- FTP - Store SFTP Fingerprint
- Intersite Communication
- LLM AI - Chat Completion
- ML AI - Classify Image
- ML AI - Create Model
- ML AI - Remove Model
- ML AI - Train Model
- ML AI - Update Model
- Regular Expression
- Reload Account Types
- Reload API Keys
- Reload Currencies
- Reload Transaction Types
- Reset Edit Code
- Reset View Code
- Send Email
- Send LinkedIn Status Update
- Send Twitter X Status Update
- Trigger Table Record Event
- Update Field
- User Group Membership
- Execution timing
- Background execution
- Delay and Repeat Actions
- Scheduled Action Management
- Execution Timing
Datatypes
- Account Type ID
- Component ID
- Check Box
- Created
- Creation Client IP Address
- Creation Client User Agent
- Creation Server IP Address
- Creation Page Referer
- Creation Site Referer
- Currency
- Currency ID
- Date/Time
- Drop Down List
- Edit Code
- Email
- File
- GUID
- Image
- Installation ID
- Integer
- Item Type
- Large Integer
- Large Text
- Multiple Record Link
- Number
- OAuth Token
- Order ID
- Order Item ID
- Product Family
- Radio Button Group
- Record ID
- Record Link
- Record Owner
- Rich Text
- Setting list
- Text
- Timespan
- Transaction Type ID
- Updated
- Updated by
- User ID
- User Group
- View Code
Application Development
Data Integration
- Managing data
- Feeds: What are Tables and Fields?
- What are Queries and Views?
- Data types
- Primary keys
- Relationships
- Designing your database
- Tables, Queries & Views - a simple example
- Why structure data? a case study
- Data Integration Overview
- Tables
- Tables
- Table Modes
- Creating and modifying Tables
- Useful naming conventions
- Table configuration - Fields tab
- Table - Edit Field dialog
- Data types
- Record locking
- Adding fields
- Editing existing fields
- Default values
- Moderator-only fields
- Security options for files and images
- Referential Integrity
- Field Validation
- Using the contents of a field as a DirectURL
- Customizing the text areas
- Events - triggering emails
- Specifying email criteria
- Selecting recipients
- Providing a valid return address
- Automatic vs Custom layout
- Save and Save As
- Entering some initial data
- Queries
- Queries and Views
- Selecting tables and Fields
- Joining multiple tables
- Designing Joins
- Combining resultsets (Union queries)
- Query-based Navigation
- Embedding Queries
- Query Embed dialog
- Query Embed dialog - Components tab
- Query Embed dialog - Surround tab
- Query Embed dialog - Parent Parameters tab
- Query Embed dialog - Records tab
- Query Embed dialog - Initial Page tab
- Query Embed dialog - Ajax tab
- Query Embed dialog - Cookie tab
- Expressions
- Expressions
- Expression Builder
- Working with Expressions
- Expressions - Function Reference
- Expressions - Operators Reference
- Expressions - Date Format
- Views
- Custom View
- Field Usage options
- Formatting Text fields
- Formatting Image fields
- Sorting results
- Defining Links in fields
- Ajax transitions
- Paging controls
- Displaying text if records exist
- Regular Expressions
- Embedding Views within the navigation links
- Calendar View
- News Tickers
- External Lookup Data Feed
- Data Import - XML & CSV
- External Lookup Data Feed
- Triggering Lookups
- General Settings
- Request URLs
- XPath Namespaces
- Fixed Request Parameters
- Cache Table Field Mappings
- Response Errors
- Data Import component
- Data Import component
- Configuring the Data Import
- Bulk Import
- Bulk importing from CSV files
- Bulk Import - Example
- FTP
- FTP Client Actions
- FTP - Store SFTP Fingerprint
- FTP - Import Directory
- FTP - Import File
- FTP - Create Directory
- FTP - Delete Directory
- FTP - Delete File
- FTP - Export File
Process Management
- Introduction to Process Management
- Designing a Process Management system
- Defining Flow State
- Validation
- Auditing and Monitoring
- Performance and Scale
Scaling and Clustering
- Architecture
- Intersite Communication
- Introduction to Intersite Communication
- Security and API Keys
- Preparing Data with JSON
- Send data with an Intersite Communication action
- Receive data with an Intersite Communication event
- Respond with data
- Receive and process the response data
Events
- Events
- Conditions
- Using conditions
- New Record
- Query Record Count
- Record Criteria
- User exists
AI Integration
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Image recognition
- Image recognition models
- Create a Model
- Update a Model
- Remove a Model
- Train a Model
- Classify an Image
- Chat Completion
- LLM Chat Completion Event Action
- Using LLM Chat Completion
- LLM Endpoints
E-commerce
- Introduction to ecommerce
- Principles
- About ecommerce
- Displaying a catalog
- Choosing a data structure
- Offering assembly options
- The shopping cart
- Forcing the user to login before buying
- Forcing the user to agree to terms before buying
- Getting paid
- Displaying an invoice
- Emailing everyone
- Basic configuration example
- Introduction & Download
- Table 'Product'
- Query 'Q: List'
- Table View
- Query 'Q: Details'
- Sale View
- Page 'Products listing'
- Page 'Description'
- Shopping Cart
- Advanced configuration
- Flow Types
- Tax and Shipping charges
- Charges - introduction
- Item Types
- Charges
- Shopping Cart Delivery Slots
- Stock control
- Stock control - introduction
- Subscriptions
- Usergroup membership
- Associate system
- Associates - introduction
- The Associate usergroup
- Creating the signup process
- The associate link system
- Accounts management
- Designing a data structure for ecommerce
- Payment processors
- Introduction to payment processors
- Integrating with Authorize
- Integrating with iDEAL
- Integrating with PayPal
- Configuring your PayPal account for integrated ecommerce
- Integrating with WorldPay
- Integrating with 2Checkout
- External Sales
- External Sale Connector
- Accounts and currencies
- Using custom currencies
Site security - users and permissions
- Users and Permissions
- Permissions
- Login - Logout
- Logged in / out component
- Not permitted means invisible
- Redirection to the Login component
- Usergroups
- Visitor usergroups
- Defining a hierarchy of control
- Allowing user registration
- Publishing access codes
- Click-through agreements
- Component-specific and inheritable
- Using redirection to first-child as a permission switch
- Behavior Editor Permissions
- Layout Element permissions
- Allowing users to update their own details
- Administering other users
- Resetting passwords
- Changing usergroup membership
- Managing profile forms for users
- Customising the login forms
- Exporting user data - the User Data Feed
- Phantom user status
- Two Factor Authentication
How-to Resources
How-to Resources
- How-To Resources
- Advertising
- Voting System
- Profiles
- Search Engine Optimisation
- Making sites Accessible
- Managing discussions
- Mobile Sites
Techniques & KB Articles
Installing
Installing and Support
Reselling your Apps
Become a SaaS Provider
- Introduction
- Site Manager
- Client Accounts
- Template sites
- Log-on impersonation
- Managing sites for your own use
- Managing sites for your own use
- Rebranding neatComponents
- Assigning domain names to the site
- Working without a domain name
- Saving a site as a template for reuse
- Upgrading a site
- Managing sites for clients
- Managing sites for clients
- Using charging plans to manage recurring fees
- Reducing balance accounts, and automatic chasing emails
- Oops. Automatic site suspension if they don't pay
- Manual account adjustments
- Impersonating your clients
- Allowing clients to self-serve new sites
- Re-brandable system
- Site 'Demo mode'
- ISPs Hosting and SaaS
The VARs Guide
- Introduction
- VAR Opportunities
- The role of the VAR
- Where does clearString run?
- How much will fit on a server?
- Licensing
- License principles
- Licensing scenarios
- A typical consultancy
- Tools for VARs
- Rebranding
- Charging
- Telemetry
- Site Creator
- Site Updating
- Site Import & Export
- Getting Started
- Next steps


	Building & Styling Applications
H: Basic site building - Videos

Getting started

We recommend watching the 'How it works' video and then following the step-by-step Tutorial to get an overview of the techniques used, before starting on your first site.

In this section we are concentrating on how to create a basic site, but at any time these surfaces (web pages) can be used to receive embedded data-components just as easily as adding text or an image.

The links in the following sections will each open a new page or tab on the Documentation site

Part 1 - Planning your site

The Order of Work - discover how best to plan your new site. [Text article] Go...

Part 2 - Site Building