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Examples for Active Objects
Sitemap
The sitemap provides visitors of your website with an overview of all pages and shows them as a clickable tree view. No further configuration is needed. In the tab Extended | View you can select between one-column and multi-column view.
Search
The search function provides visitors of your website with a full text
content search. Under Extended | View you can choose
between a Javascript-based search (that's the default view "Sitesearch") or a
server-side search with ASP or PHP.
If you select a server-side search
you have to make sure that the fitting filetype is selected. You can change
the filetype in the page's properties under Paths and Folders |
Filetype. Furthermore, the chosen technology has to be supported by
your webhoster.
Submenu
The submenu provides visitors of your site with an overview of all pages that are directly subordinated to the current page.
Article Overview
The article overview is a kind of clickable table of content for one page. This is very comfortable for pages with lot of content. You can also see an article overview at the beginning of this page.
Uplink
The uplink is a link to the top of the page, which makes sense for pages with much content.
Photo Album
The photo album shows a nice presentation of an album of images. Little thumbnails are automatically generated.
When you insert a photo album you have to select an album in the drop down
menu "Album". If you haven't got the appropriate album yet, you can go to the
image manager by clicking the button 
.
There you can create an album and import the pictures you want to show.
Additionally you can specify the width of the thumbnails and the number of
thumbnails per line.
In the section Extended | View you can choose between different styles of presentation:
Pictures and preview (JavaScript)
Newsticker
The newsticker is a JavaScript animated text. It is suitable if you want to draw special attention to a certain subject.
Animated Text
The Active Object "Animated Text" is another option to gain attention through animated text. In the tab Extended | View you can choose between several variations of animated text.
Multimedia Objects
With this object you can easily add movie clips and flash animations to your website.
Alert Window
Adds a JavaScript window alert to your website. The user has to click OK before the page will be shown.
Google Search
Inserts a Google search into your website. You can choose if you want to search the whole web or only your site.
Password
Inserts a password protection to avoid access to a certain page. You can create an internal area on your website that is only accessible for people who know the password.