About peripheral panes

Views provides additional specialized views in four panes at the top, bottom, left, and right of the main pane:

Panorama pane This pane is a bird's-eye view of the entire site or site design. The view contains a view box corresponding to the current view in the main pane. You can move the main view around the site by moving the box. You can do anything with the panorama pane that you can do with the main view--for example, select a page or drag a page to another page in a navigation view to make it that page's child or parent. The panorama pane is available in all views.

Scratch pane This pane shows two kinds of files stored in the root folder and listed in the Files tab of the primary site window: HTML pages that aren't part of the site's navigation hierarchy and media files that aren't referenced on any HTML page listed in the Files tab. The scratch pane is available only in navigation views.

You can drag HTML pages from a navigation view's scratch pane to its central pane, You use a navigation view's scratch pane as you would its central pane, dragging a page to a target page in the central pane and positioning it so that it becomes the parent, child, or sibling of the target page. Similarly, you can build up partial trees in the scratch pane and drag them to target pages. For information, see Adding empty pages and pending links to a hierarchy and Rearranging the parts of a hierarchy.

Reference pane This pane shows media objects embedded in the selected HTML page or pages because the page references the files containing the objects. By moving the selection from page to page you can easily browse the embedded objects. The reference pane does not show media files hyperlinked to the HTML page--for example, a large image file hyperlinked to a thumbnail version of the same image embedded in a page. The reference pane is available in all views.

Pending pane This pane shows pending links from the selected page or pages--that is, child or sibling pages that have not been hyperlinked to the selected page or pages. The pending pane is available in navigation views and design views.

In practice, you would probably open only one or two panes at a time, depending on your immediate need.

The view shown has a wide orientation. If a view's orientation is tall, the panorama pane is on the left, the scratch pane on the right, the reference pane above, and the pending pane below. For information, see Changing the orientation of a view.

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