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Toggle Panel
A Toggle Panel provides a way to display a minimal amount of information, but allow the reader to click an 'expand' icon to display additional information. Toggle Panels can contain pretty much any html element including images, flash videos, tables, iframes, links, etc.
Here's an example of a toggle panel:
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Advantages:
- Faster than a dynamic help system
- Can be run anywhere with a standard browser
- Can be distributed on a CD or within a setup file
- Fewer files
- Can be run on any web server such as Apache, Linux, etc.
- Supports all browsers right back to Netscape 1.0 and IE 1.0
Disadvantages:
- Not editable (Updates require re-publish)
- 'Most Popular Pages' feature not supported
- 'Reader Comments' feature not supported
- 'Page views' feature not supported
- Dynamic conditional content not supported
- Dynamic skins not supported
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Follow the steps below to add a toggle panel to a page:
1. Select the page that you want to add the toggle panel to.
2. Click 'Edit Page'
3. Click the 'Insert Page Object' icon.
4. Select 'TogglePanel' in the list and then click 'Insert'.
5. Type the toggle panel heading and body.
6. Click the 'Save' button to save the page and switch to live mode.
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