Schedule and Personalize Element

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Schedule and Personalize Element

The Schedule/Personalize Element, commonly referred to as the Scheduled Element, allows for the dynamic rendering of content based on a specific date, time of day, audience, subsite, page category, variable value, or browser type. Alternatively, the dynamic rendering of content can be triggered by clicking a hyperlink. The Scheduled Element essentially acts as a container or placeholder for dynamically rendered Elements.

For those Elements that render multiple items as part of the Element - Bulleted List Element, Drop Down List of Links Element, Link Bar Element , and Multi-Section Element - each individual sub-item may be scheduled or personalized in the same way as the Elements contained within a Scheduled Element.

CommonSpot offers several scheduling options. Here are a few examples of how Elements can be scheduled.

Timeframe - An on-line catalogue chooses to display images of models in their clothing that correspond to each season - winter, spring, summer, and fall. A range of dates is defined for each of the image Elements.
Audience - Human Resource’s benefit information contained in two different Text Block Elements is displayed based on whether an employee is salaried or hourly.
Page Categories - A destination resort displays images based on the category of the page. An image of a chef in uniform is displayed on all pages that belong to the category cuisine, while an image of chocolates on a pillow is displayed for pages that belong to the category resort amenities.
Subsites - A company on its internal intranet site chooses to render a second level navigational bar specific to each of its many departments or subsites such as Human Resources, Research & Development, Finance, Sales & Marketing, and Customer Service. The top-level tool bar is consistent across all sites while the secondary tool bar is displayed based on the subsite.
Browser Type - A company wishes to display certain navigational Elements if the user has an Internet Explorer browser and other navigational Elements if the user has a Netscape browser. This feature can also be used to indicate whether an Element should be included in a Verity search, or when printing the page.

Note that at most only one of the contained Elements is rendered, even if the scheduling criteria for more than one Element are met. When the scheduling criteria for more than one Element are met, the order that the Elements appear in the Edit Rendering Criteria dialog will determine which Element is rendered. If the scheduling criteria for at least one of the contained Elements are not met, no Element is rendered.

You can configure the Scheduled Element to allow the selection of which Element to render to be triggered by hyperlinks. To configure the Scheduled Element for this option, use the Schedule Layout Properties dialog.

In the example illustrated below, clicking the Tennis tab will dynamically display the associated tennis story. Likewise, clicking the Formula One tab will dynamically display the Formula One story. The Tab Bar Element entries, Tennis and Formula One are individually linked to the scheduled Elements, in this case, Text around an Image Elements containing the Tennis and Formula One stories.

See Link Element for more information on creating hyperlinks to Scheduled Elements.

Related Links

Schedule Layout Properties

Define Elements to Schedule/Personalize

Scheduled Element Entry

Edit Rendering Criteria

Schedule/Personalize Element

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