OBTREE SUPPORT SITE
If you use Obtree to create and manage content on your website, this site will help you to understand common tasks and procedures by offering you step-by-step guidance and advice.
CREATING DEPUTIES
Two women looking down Photographer: Mat Wright Copyright British Council Find out how to create new author, manager and webmaster users (deputies) in Obtree.
Using Naming Conventions
A naming convention is essential for locating and identifying individual objects. The standard is: country-division-content.
Find out more.
Fifth level navigation
Fifth level navigation is an additional navigation present on most templates through edit extensions. If your pages are in the fifth level of the viewtree then they can appear in a fifth level navigation. Find out more.
Instances
If your site has more than one language, or you want to do updates to your pages that take more than 30 minutes to complete you will need to using instancing.
How to use workflow is a way of managing a website in a controlled environment. When using workflow
authors create and update objects, and
webmasters approve and publish authors' work.
E-mail marketing
If you are using the
e-mail marketing platform to send out e-zines to your customers this site will help you to understand how to use the platform by offering step-by-step guidance and support.
Language toolbar
Find out how to
create a language switch toolbar which appears at the top of your pages.
Working with objects
In this section of the Obtree support site you can find out how to create each type of object in Obtree. Obtree has a number of object types including pages, links, pictures, documents, texts and tables.
HOW TO USE OBTREE
HOW TO CREATE
Global objects
LINKS
Images and Documents
TABLES
Polls using the Polling templates
FORM USING THE FORM BUILDER TEMPLATE (364 Kb)
Dynamic image gallery
Dynamic Competition Gallery
External user management
Are you having troubles with the extensions function? Can't find a page in the viewtree? Can't log in? The page you created doesn't show in the browser? Find out more about troubleshooting in Obtree
Troubleshooting
