Zone

 A zone is an element of presentation whose appearance is given dynamically with the execution. This executable web element can obtain its information of presentation in several manners.

 

Source from compile-time HTML File	A path to a file accessible at compile-time whose content is the HTML formatted text to display
Source from URL	An URL that points to a resource that when accessed will return the HTML formatted text to display
Source from expression	An expression written in Xion that returns a String whose content is the HTML formatted text to display
URL from expression	An expression written in Xion that returns a String whose content represents an URL that points to a resource that when accessed will return the HTML formatted text to display
Source from relative path	A path relative to the document root folder (htdocs) to a file whose content is the HTML formatted text to display
Relative path from expression	An expression written in Xion that returns a String whose content represents a path relative to the document root folder (htdocs) to a file whose content is the HTML formatted text to display

Properties

Name	Name of the zone. It is mandatory. It will be part of the URL that will be used to access a web element in this web folder.
Folder	Qualified name of the parent web folder
HTML file	Always checked
Entry file	Checked if this zone can be an entry page. A zone is an entry page if it is not a fragment and all entry variables have default values.
HTML fragment	Check if this zone is treated as a fragment.
Filter out to tag	If this zone is a fragment, only contents between two precise tags are taken into account. This property gives the name of these tags.
Interfacing	Describes the intervention of this zone in connection between modules. None: used inside the module Imported: the zone is a place-holder that must be associated to an executable web element which is exported from an other module Exported: the zone is accessible from outside the module in which it is defined.
For test purpose	If checked and this zone is in an imported module, this zone does not participate in the generation of the entire web application.
Source filter	The HTML source can be filtered in order to replace a sequence of characters with an other sequence. See Source filtering and relative URL. No filter: no filter is applied to the source Specific filters: this zone define filters and only these filters are applied Inherited filters: only inherited filters from parent web folders are applied Specific and inherited filters: the filters defined in this zone and in the parent folders are applied.

Embedded decision centers

Like the other executable web elements, the zones can contain several decision centers. The tags corresponding to these decision centers can appear in the HTML formatted text associated to the zone during execution. Tags that do not appear in the text or tags that correspond to decision center that are not linked to this zone are ignored.