Explantion history section

History section

The standard project tree has 5 root sections: 'Include , Web, WebRoot, Dynamic and DynamicRoot'. When building the site all pages in the last 4 root sections ('Web, WebRoot, Dynamic and DynamicRoot') will be created.

It is possible, however, to create a history section in each of those last 4 root sections by creating a child page named exactly as the root section, but preceded with 3 '-'-characters (---Web, ---WebRoot, ---Dynamic and ---DynamicRoot).

Each of these start of history section pages will be displayed in another colour than the normal pages in the project tree.

Pages which are present as child pages of these history pages will NOT be build when building the web site.

It is therefore possible to 'keep' existing pages but not build those any more when building new versions of the web site. The only thing that needs to be done is to move these pages to the corresponding history section ('Cut page' and 'Paste page as child'). Be aware that the last version of the page which were build in the past will not be deleted, but will remain on the web server.

Individually marking pages as history pages

Starting from version 4 of StepGen, it is possible to mark individual pages as history pages without having to move them in the history section.

Choose 'Edit - Page data - Edit' and check the 'History' checkbox. Use 'Edit - Page data - Save' to save the changes.

The individually marked history pages will be displayed in another colour than the normal pages in the project tree.