DW Spectrum User Manual

Key Concepts:

•The display on initial Site launch is an empty Viewing Grid with tab name “New Layout*”.

•An asterisk at the end of the layout name indicates that the layout has unsaved changes.

• The name if each new layout defaults to New Layout # using the next logical, numerical increment.

•One layout tab must always be open, this can be an empty New Layout #* tab.

•If more tabs are open than can fit in the display, "<" and ">" arrows will be provided to scroll through any tabs that are not visible.

To Open a New Layout Tab

1.Right-click on any tab in the Navigation Panel and select New Layout (Ctrl+T) from the context menu.

2.Go to Main Menu > New > Layout.

3.Click on the + icon to the right of the last tab in the Navigation Panel.

To Close a Tab

1.Click on the X icon next to the tab name.

2.Right-click on a tab to open the context menu and select Close (Ctrl+W).

To Close All but the Active Tab

•To close all tabs but the active one, open the tab’s context menu and select Close All But This.

To Reposition a Tab

•Click-and-drag a tab name in the Navigation Panel to change its position.

To Open an Existing Layout

1.Drag-and-drop the layout from Layouts in the Resource Panel onto the Viewing Grid.

2.Right-click on the layout in the Resource Panel and choose Open Layout (or press Enter) from the context menu.

3.Right-click on an existing layout in the Navigation Panel and select Open Layout from the context menu to open a list of all layouts available to the current session.

4.Click on the ˅ icon to the right of the last tab in the Navigation Panel to open a list of all layouts available to the current session.

If you select a layout that is currently open, focus will shift to that tab. If you select a layout that is not currently open, it will open in a new tab. You can use the first two steps to select and open multiple layouts. Each layout will open in a separate tab. (If a layout is already open it will not be reopened in a second tab.)

NOTE: After DW Spectrum is closed, all saved layouts that are open will be restored when the User logs back in.

Layout Groups in the Resource Panel:

•All layout groups are expanded by default .

•Each layout can only exist in one layout group at a time.

•All layouts inside a group (folder) are sorted lexicographically.

•Layout groups can be nested 8-levels deep with the same Group name used at each level.

•The collapsed and expanded settings for layout group is saved and restored when user returns to the Site.

•Layout groups cannot have a blank name; the Group name must be at least one character and leading spaces will be removed.

•Only Site Administrators and Power Users can create and modify layout groups.

To Create a Layout Group:

1.Select one or more layouts and then use the context menu (right-click) or the hot-key (CTRL+G/CMD+G) to create a New Group.

2.The created group is automatically named New Group with subsequent groups incrementally named New Group 1, New Group 2, ...

3.Newly created groups are added to the top of the list of all layouts and first displayed in an editable (rename) mode.

To Modify a Layout Group:

1.Drag and Drop Layouts in and out of the group to change the contents of the Layout group.

2.Removing a Layout group, or a nested Layout group, will return all the contained Layouts to the Resource Tree.

3.Use the context menu to rename or remove a Layout group from the Site.