Referencing Files in the Experience Folder

Author-it Website Manager creates an end user experience from files stored in the experience and content folders. The compiled webpages reference the location of external files, such as image files or javascript files, using their full folder location. When the website experience is created two steps need to be completed: the templates are added to the experience, and the content folder is added to the language profile.

Author-it Website Manager uses this information to update the template. A code string is added to the head section of the template as base reference to locate the content folder. As the page is compiled Author-it Website Manager converts the code string to the full folder location used by the web server.

Note: By default the base reference points to the language folder containing the published content from Author-it as most of the files used in the website will be found in this folder.

The template can only include one base reference, so links to files in the experience folder need to be updated manually.

The following example uses an image reference used by the template:

The image reference before the code is added

<img src="183.gif" alt="Font Dialog" height="344" width="437">

The image reference after the code is added

<img src="{sys_experience_url}/183.gif" alt="Font Dialog" height="344" width="437">

When the image is stored in a sub folder the reference string also includes the name of the sub folder

<img src="{sys_experience_url}/images/183.gif"alt="Font Dialog" height="344" width="437">

To Update the Experience Reference:

1. Open the template
2. Locate references to files stored in the experience folder
3. Add the code {sys_experience_url}/ to each reference