Category Archives: Skinning the Spider

How to Customise the Spider Views for your school

Spider – Customise Control Title and Descriptions

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Available in Spider Version 2012.08.20.xxx and above.

PCSchool now provides the ability for schools to customise the title and description displayed for each control using the Quick Links Maintenance.

Once you click on this, you get the interface where it loads all the available controls for your spider.

Click on the title, to edit and change the text.

Once saved, the next login should load this new content.

Skinning the Spider

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Available in Spider Version 2012.08.20.xxx and above.

‘Skinning’ the Spider refers to customising the look of the page with school logo/crest and colours. View the ‘Skinning the Spider’ Tech Tip.

Since releasing the tech tip at the 2012 PCSchool Conference we recieved a few suggestions. All these have been implemented in the new spider and will be released in Spider version 2012.08.20.xxx (or above). They include:

Spider Home Page Changes

  • If you want to change the logo in the main page #1, the skin to be used is Title_Logo located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin
  • If you want to change the text or its color in #2, the skin to be used is Title_Text located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin
  • If you want to change the text or its color in #3, then the skin to be used is Title_SubText located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin
  • If you want to align the text in #2 to right/left/centre or change the background color use the skin TitleMainTextTableCell located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin
  • If you want to align the text in #3 to right/left/centre or change the background color use the skin TitleSubTextTableCell located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin

Spider Login Page Changes

  • For changing the text and its color in #1, the skin to be changed is LoginMainHeadingLabel located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin
  • For changing the background color in #2, the skin to be changed is LoginMainHeadingTableCell located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin
  • For changing the text and its color in #3, the skin to be changed is LoginSubHeadingLabel located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin
  • For changing the background color in #4, the skin to be changed is LoginSubHeadingTableCell located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin
  • For changing the text in #5, the skin to be changed is LoginMainCaptionLabel located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin
  • For changing the text in #6, the skin to be changed is LoginSubCaptionLabel located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin
  • For changing the logo to the school logo #7, the skin to be changed is LoginSchoolImage located at App_Themes/PCSchool/PCSchool.skin