Changing Text

Every ActivID CMS User Portal Web page contains body text in the same or similar location. Typically, body text is displayed in a central panel of the Web page and it describes the functions available within the Web page or provides some important information that the user needs to know.

You can modify or change the body text contained in any of the ActivID CMS User Portal Web pages. The following illustration shows the body text location in the central panel of the Web page:

The body text that is displayed to users on each Web page is specified in text files, and there is one text file for each Web page in the ActivID CMS User Portal user interface.

These text files are located in the cms_install_dir\aims.war\WEB-INF\classes\cardholder directory, where cms_install_dir is the directory into which ActivID CMS was installed.

Important: The cms_portal directory, used in previous versions of ActivID CMS, no longer exists. With the migration to WildFly in ActivID CMS 6.0, that directory is now called aims.war.

Structure of Text Files

The text files for the ActivID CMS User Portal Web pages use the same structure as the files used for defining the titles of the Web pages. The text files also consist of key/value pairs as shown in the following example:

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cardholder.cardholder_insert.2=Welcome to ActivID CMS. Using this service you can...

where

  • cardholder.cardholder_insert.2 represents the key.

  • Welcome to ActivID CMS. Using this service you can... represents the associated value for the key.

Note: The text contained in the .properties file is HTML (it is not ASCII or plain text).

Changing the Text on a Web Page

To change the text on a Web page, repeat the following steps for each Web page that you want to customize:

  1. Navigate to the text file that corresponds to the Web page in which you want to change or modify the text.

  2. Open the text file that you want to change using a text editor (for example, Notepad), and modify the text in the text file as required.

  3. Once you have made your changes, save the text file.

Note: Do not rename key names or remove them from the text files. Do not remove the equal sign (=) from any text files.