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Reapplying your SiteEdit configuration file settings

If you are upgrading or migrating a SiteEdit implementation, reapply the settings of your old SiteEdit configuration in the slide-out navigation or in the main Content Manager Explorer GUI. Some SiteEdit configuration settings have no new equivalent, but your implementation will still continue to run. You must be an administrator-level user or a user with Publication Administration rights to perform this task.

TopLevelConfiguration versus Configurations

Where the old SiteEdit configuration allowed for separate configurations for specific Groups or Users, you can now only apply one set of configuration settings, which applies to all users.

ComponentStateColors

The new user interface has fewer border colors for the status of an item, and border colors apply both to Component borders and to Page borders. Also, you can now configure other border properties than just colors. The following old Component statuses do not have an equivalent in the new user interface:

  • Field
  • FieldHover
  • InvalidFieldHover
  • NewerVersionAvailable
  • Removed
  • StartedWorkItem
  • SwapSource
  • SwapTarget
  • WorkItem

The following old Component statuses do have an equivalent, configurable in the slide-out navigation Settings screen, in the Inline Editing tab:

Old Component status nameSlide-out navigation setting name
EditableEditable
EditedModified
InvalidFieldInvalid (this setting also applies to entire Components and Pages, not only to individual fields)
ReadOnly or WorkItemNon-editable (this setting covers all cases of a Component or Page not being readily editable)

RegionColor, SmartTargetUrl and AdministrativeUserId

The functionality related to these settings is not yet implemented.

ComponentToolbar

This section, which let you set the visibility of the entire toolbar of a Component or of individual buttons (in the ButtonsVisibility subsection) no longer applies because the Component toolbar no longer exists. It is not possible to remove menu items from the Component context menu (or the new Page context menu), which replaces the Component toolbar.

PublishStatusPollInterval

The functionality related to this setting is not implemented.

TargetTypeID

This configuration setting created a mapping between publishing destinations in Content Manager and the published staging Web site on which SiteEdit ran. A similar mapping exists in the new user interface, but now you configure it in Content Manager Explorer. To reconfigure this mapping, do the following:

  1. Access Content Manager Explorer.
  2. Find the Target Type that has the ID configured in this TargetTypeID setting.
  3. Open each of your Publication Targets in turn and in the Publication tab, check if the Target Type is listed in the list of Allowed Target Types at bottom right.
  4. If this is true, set up publishing for that Publication Target.

AddAutomaticComponentTypes

The automatic generation of Component Types for Component creation, based on Components already on the page, is now configured on the Page Template level rather than system-wide. Note that Component Types are now called Content Types. You can switch off automatic generation of Content Types in the slide-out navigation Settings screen, in the Inline Editing tab, under Content Type Settings.

NewPageCreation

This section, which configures where new Pages are created and which 'cloned' or reused Components appear on it, is now configured in a Page being used as a Page Type. To reapply this configuration, create a new Page and enable its use as a Page Type.

Override Page Publication and Override Component Publication

If you used modular templating and you had set a value for either or both of these parameters of the Enable SiteEdit 2009 Template Building Block, reapply these values in BluePrint Context Settings in the slide-out navigation Settings screen, in the Inline Editing tab.

ComponentContext and PageContext

If you used VBScript/JScript templating and you had set a value for either or both of these properties in the BluePrinting section of your SiteEdit Settings command, reapply these values in BluePrint Context Settings in the slide-out navigation Settings screen, in the Inline Editing tab.