The List Children AS component

Generates a table with documents that are direct child documents of the current document or of a document of your choice. This component was added in version 5.1.

When to use

This component is typically used when there is a need to insert a simple list, with or without links, of direct documents.

Parent document

Optional, a document whose direct children to list. If you leave this field empty the current document is used.

Presentation template

Optional, a presentation template to use when links to listed documents are generated.

List options

One of the following alternatives:

• List in columns - This is the natural way and is recommended if more that one column is used.
• Lists documents in rows with one column only. This mode works best if only one column is used.

Generate column headers

A value that indicates whether a column heading should be generated. This property is ignored when the Orientation set to Row

List sorting

• Order in hierarcy
• Order by document hierarchy
• Order by publish date
• Order by publish date
• Order by title
• Order by the title (name) of each document.

Table properties

Border width

Specifies the width of the border around the table and all its cells.

Cellpadding

Sets a value that indicates the cellpadding attribute of the generated table. This attribute regulates space between the edge and the text within each cell in the table.

Cellspacing

Sets a value that indicates the cellspacing attribute that regulates the space between each generated table cell. Default value is zero

Table width

Optional, a value that specifies the width of the table. This value must be a number (zero or more) or empty.

Link target

Optional, the target of each document link generated. For Xhtml strict that does not support the target attribute this is implented using client script code.

Wrap text in cells

Enables text wrapping in each generated cell, The default value is true, if false, a nowrap attribute is inserted on each cell.

Cell class name

Optional, a CSS class to be applied on each cell in the table.

Table class name

Optional, a CSS class to be applied on the generated table element. When styling the table, use this parameter rather than the Cell class.

Table caption

Optional, the caption element connected to the the generated table. The default value is an empty string (the element is omitted). Omitting this attribute causes a warning when validating with XHTML 1.0 Strict or higher.

Table summary

Optional, the summary attribute connected to the the generated table. The default value is an empty string (the attribute is omitted). Omitting this attribute causes a warning when validating with XHTML 1.0 Strict or higher.

Date formatting string

Optional, a DateFormat string which is used to format the written date value. For more detailed information on the different time format strings, see the DateTimeFormatInfo class documentation. If omitted, the value of d is used which displays the short date using the current culture.

Included columns

Column 1

Data to display in the first column. None to omit this column from beeing generated.

Column 2

Data to display in the second column. None to omit this column from beeing generated.

Column 3

Data to display in the third column. None to omit this column from beeing generated.

Column 4

Data to display in the fourth column. None to omit this column from beeing generated.