New Style Manager – JDXpert

Today we are going to take a look at the Style Manager.

This allows you to more easily customize to look and feel of your jobs as they display on screen. Previously when you were working with the job, a default data manager was assigned and to make any changes to that you need to do an override. First to get to the Style Manager, you just need to get into the Job Template Editor. I find that the easiest way is to select a job from Job Management, right-click go to the Job Template Editor.

There are several other paths to get there.

Once you are here, you can see how the styles are laid out and if we go look at anyone of the styles. So just go to Qualifications → Knowledge, Skills and Abilities block.

I can browse over and see that I currently have Legacy Styles assigned.

Legacy Styles means that this is the style that existed before the Style Manager was updated and is the current default that has been used for some time. You can see that I do have a few other styles already set up, will get to those in a moment. And historically with these Legacy Styles if I need to change anything, I will do an override either Caption or the Data.

Now, to get to this Style Manager, I have browsed to the More menu at the top go to Style Manager.

And you can see the new layout here.

To walk through a couple of the functions that we have here, you see this bottom button here may be disabled on your site if legacy styles already been updated.

This is a single use function it will take what is currently set up as the default and apply it to all of the building blocks in my job. This will remove the legacy styles from everything all at once.

To make changes to my styles, we have Add, Copy, Rename, Delete buttons.

And if I have other styles setup, I can configure any of them to be the default. Currently, this default is exactly what existed before. If I want to make some changes to my default and have applied to everything in mass, I would hit Apply to All Blocks.

It will confirm that I want to apply this to everything and finish that process. Once that has been applied to everything you would need to go back and update anything that had a unique style applied to it.

I can also Import and Export.

So if I make some changes on my staging site and I want to import those here without having to manually reconfigure them, I can do that with these tools. So you can see that we have the Default Style set. As I mentioned, this inherits what was previously style set for all new building blocks. The brackets here indicate this is currently the default to any new building blocks will also have the style applied to it.

But if I want to add another style.

So, for example, we want something that will display only in some text box, we can go ahead and name that.

Go ahead, save and close it.

The heading for these text blocks will be in Palatino 18 point, and we will pick a shade of green for them to stand out. The text on those building blocks will be in another font so that we can identify it. We will also make that in a different shade of green and make that bold and italic.

So you can see the preview of how that text will look here.

And there are few other fields on here I can update. We will just save this right now. This will say the default and you can see that I have that style option in here.

I do have a couple of other ones already set up. We can Save and Close and exit. So, now I am back on my job template and I want to go back into my Knowledge and Skills.

We are currently set to legacy styles.

I want this to be in a new shade of red. Because I've never applied any of the new styles here, I get a warning. This confirms that I'm going be using the new style and legacy will no longer be available.

That is specific to this building block. So you can see I now have my red bullet list file assigned to it.

Because this is a bullet list, I do have the ability to set two different options for this as well. If I had a header applied to, it would use the great header. Other building block types that do not have bullet list functionality will not display that second style.

So I can go to a Bright Headings style here because that's a textbox it doesn't show. But let's go to any textbox and you can see that I have green style that I just applied.

So I can Save and Close now. If I go back into this job or any other jobs that uses building blocks I can see my new style is displayed.

Thank you.