eMPower 3.2 Administrator Manual - Ektron

Concepts
• Single, which can be used for a web page that holds a Static content
block
• Group, which can be used for a Group of content blocks
Content Categories and Subcategories
Content categories and subcategories sort information for Group Content
blocks. Content categories are a way to further organize content blocks
that share similar content or information. Categories further refine group
Main Categories and build relationships between content. Sticking with our
newspaper analogy, you could create a group content block called Sports
and make a category on that page called Winter Sports and that category
could have subcategories such as Skiing, Skating, Hockey, etc. Subcategories
are also useful for mapping out your site.
Content Block IDs
Content block IDs are used to identify the different blocks of content, or
content blocks, stored in the eMPower database. When a Site Maintainer
creates a new content block from within eMPower, eMPower automatically
assigns it an ID number. These numbers are used to build, or populate, a
web page and display it in a browser. If you use Group Content blocks,
each content block in the group will also be assigned a unique ID number.
As a Site Maintainer, you don't have to worry about ID numbers but knowing
about them helps you understand the operations of eMPower. However,
if you are responsible for creating new templates, you will have to
manually assign the content blocks that will be put into the templates
unique ID numbers.
Content Block Deletion
While it is possible to delete a content block from within eMPower, a record
of that content block will always exist. This situation exists, because
eMPower uses a database to store all content blocks and this database
uses a revision control system. This revision control system stores all historical
versions of any content block checked into eMPower. As a result,
deleting a content block should be seen as removing content from a Web
page.
There are two distinct methods used by eMPower when deleting content
blocks. One method is used when deleting a Group content block and the
other is used when deleting a content block from a group content block.
When deleting a Group content block, you can either delete the contents
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