The Honors Theses pages are built for one purpose: to display information relating to current honors theses. The information is generated from a Filemaker database that Tammy Couturier maintains. Once a year this database is converted to XML and placed in the prebuilt folder; all the information in the data gets updated from that database, with a few exceptions. The academic year is hard-coded into the stylesheet. Departments which have no students writing a thesis must be unmarked for publish, or they will appear with a blank page; similarly, departments which had no theses last year but do this year should be marked for publish. Read here how to convert a filemaker database into a static XML file. Follow those instructions and be sure to designate the fields Major_1 and Major_2 as attributes.
This page will automatically generate one link to the Ladd Catalog author: *department name* honors thesis. More can be added by use of a LaddLink field containing an External Link component.
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Thesis | Loads up the XML file with thesis information. | honors-theses.xml | Insert Component with Well-formed set to "true" |
| LaddLink | Link to Ladd catalogue | ExternalLink Component | [Optional] for additional links to Ladd Library catalog listings for the honors thesis. For example, Anthropology has a link to "Anthropology and Sociology Honors Thesis" | |
| BodyCopy Supplement | HTML sensitive text area for adding information about the department | HTML text |
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| Navigation-Section | Primary Links along top of page | Navigation-Section (x17) | Navigation-Section (x17) is default; DO NOT CHANGE | |
| Navigation-Page | Lefthand page navigation will return folders and pages | Pulldown menu | Set for SUBTREE with a start page of x20404 (which is the divider page for the section; this is set in the schema). | |
| Navigation-Links | Don't use | Don't use | Don't use | |
| Navigation-Ancestor | Ancestor "breadcrumb" navigation above headline | Pulldown | Ancestors | |
| Footer | Not in use at this time | |||
| Keyword | META keywords for search | not necessary; the stylesheet has a ROBOTS tag set for NOINDEX. | ||
| Owner | Person responsible for page upkeep | e-mail format (kzirkel) | ||
| Layout | Stylesheet associated with the page | honors-theses.xsl | ||
This page type was designed and built by Ken Zirkel in Feb 2002 at the request of Tammy Couturier.