Single Summary Function

The single summary tag is used to display the summary of one content block in the Ektron CMS400.NET Web site, instead of a list of all the summaries in a content folder. Seen below is the single summary tag:

<% ecmSingleSummary

"ContentID", ShowSummary, "StyleInfo", "ShowInfo", "Spare1"

%>

You can look at the single summary tag as just a simpler form of the List summary tag. The format for each of them is almost identical, but the single summary tag does not require as many attributes to be passed.

A list and description of the attributes are shown in this table:

Attribute	Description	Required?
Content ID	This is the ID number of the content block the summary information will come from.	Yes
ShowSummary	Do you want the content summary to be displayed?	Yes
StyleInfo	Inline style information for the generated text hyperlink.	No
ShowInfo	Information that will appear to the right of the hyperlink.	No
Spare1	Not yet implemented	MUST BE ““

Single Summary Example

Shown below is an example of the single summary function in an ASP Web page.

<TR> <TD> <% ecmSingleSummary "14",1,"","DateModified","" %> </TD> </TR>

The previous example had the following properties:

Displays the summary for the content block with an ID=14

The summary will be shown

No style was applied to the hyperlinks

The last date the content was modified will be displayed

Here is how the summary will appear on the web page.

Single Summary Attributes

Listed below are all the different attributes and descriptions about them.

Content ID

In this attribute, you will need to specify which content block you will want the summary to be displayed from.

Show Summary

The show summary attribute will allow or disallow the summary to be displayed in the summary list. You have two options for this attribute:

Value	Web Page View
0
1

Style Info

In this field, you may enter inline style information for the generated text hyperlinks displayed on the screen.

Style Info	Web Page View
““
font-family:arial; font-weight:bold; background-color:#cccccc; border:solid blue 1pt; margin:2px; width:100%;

Show Info

The show info field determines what sort of information is displayed to the right of the hyperlinked title. There are five different options that you may choose from:

Value	Displays the...	Web Page View
ID	ID number for the content block.
DateModified	date the content was last modified.
DateCreated	date when the content was first created.
AuthorFname	first name of the user who last edited the content block.
AuthorLname	last name of the user who last edited the content block

Spare 1

There is one attribute fields at the end that are currently not used. This is here for future scalability. When you insert a single summary tag into your template, you must leave this attributes as ““