Mercury Dokumentation

Editor field description for the Slider

The slider creates a slide show or an image carousel with a configurable interval where images with texts are displayed.

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Tab "Configuration"

Title
(Text input)
The title / headline for this content.
Text Position
Optional
The default position of the text box. This value can be overridden for individual slides.
Vertical
(Select box)

Choose the vertical position.

Horizontal
(Select box)

Choose the horizontal position.

Text Color
(Color picker)
Optional
The color for the text. If not color is set, a color from the CSS theme will be used.
The colour code must be in the correct hexadecimal format, e.g. in the form ‘#CC3300’.
Text Background Color
(Color picker)
Optional
The background color of the text. If no color is set, a default from the CSS theme will be used.
The colour code must be in the correct hexadecimal format, e.g. in the form ‘#CC3300’.
Gallery title
(Text input)
Only Workplace users
Optional
Used to identify this content in the OpenCms internal gallery. Not shown in the output page.

Tab "Images"

Image
Can occur up to 100 times
The image for this content.
Path
(Image gallery)
The absolute image path in the OpenCms file system.

Optional link for this image.

Please note: External links should always include a prefix, such as https://.

Open in new window
(Check box)
Optional
If checked, the link is opened in a new browser window.
Text Title
(Text input)
The title of the text box that is shown with the image.
Text Subtitle 1
(Text area)
The first line of the text box.
Text Subtitle 2
(Text area)
The second line of the text box.
Optional copyright information for the image.
Text Position
Optional
Optional position of the text box inside the image, if the standard position is not suited.
Vertical
(Select box)

Choose the vertical position.

Horizontal
(Select box)

Choose the horizontal position.

Release / expiration date
Optional

The time period where this image is available.

Attention: Invalid images - and the corresponding texts - are not displayed, but are still present in the HTML source code of the page. Therefore, do not use this function for sensitive information that must not be made public before a certain date, for example.

Release date
(Date / time selection)
Optional
This content will be available online starting from this date.
The date format must be valid and include the time, e.g. '10/01/2024 01:00 PM'.
Expiration date
(Date / time selection)
Optional
This content will not be available online after this date.
The date format must be valid and include the time, e.g. '10/01/2024 01:00 PM'.
Confidential
(Access restriction)
Only authorized users
Optional
If outside the release / expiration date, this content is visible offline only for a responsible group which is set by the administration.