Banner Student Self-Service / User Guide / 7.3

1 Application OverviewBaseline and Local Recordsuniformly. If a developer changes a style on the style sheet, all the Web pages thatuse that style are updated.Styles can affect all parts of a Web page including:• Headers• Tables• Fonts• Font size• Font color• Graphics (that is, bullets, images used with error messages, etc.)Note: Style sheets can only be used with HTML 4.0. Earlier versions of HTMLdo not support them.Using CSS technology lets you separate the content of your Web pages from theirstructure and their presentation.Note: For more information about CSS, Style Sheets and Banner Web products,and support for CSS technology, see the Web General User Guide.Baseline and Local RecordsThe SunGard Higher Education-delivered menus, roles, menu items, andInformation Text are separated into two categories: baseline and local. Baselinerecords are shipped by SunGard Higher Education and should not be modified inany way. Local records can be created and modified by clients and will never beoverwritten by SunGard Higher Education. This allows clients to customizeInformation Text and menus as desired without losing anything during upgrades,and still allows SunGard Higher Education to ship new items.When the system attempts to display an item, it first looks for a local record and, iffound, uses that record. If a local record is not found, it displays the baseline record.In order to accomplish this, a source indicator field was added to the TWGBWMNU,TWGRWMRL, TWGRMENU, and TWGRINFO tables. Baseline rows contain a B,and local rows contain an L. During the upgrade, all existing rows had theSOURCE_IND column populated with a B.Note: For more information about Web menus and procedures and theirassociated roles, including viewing, updating, and deleting them, see theWeb General User Guide.May 2006 Student Self-Service Release 7.3Confidential User Guide 1-3