Analysis Tool Bar

Description

The object of the Analysis Tool Bar is to provide the HTML document owners a easy way to use TAPoRware tools on their sites.

This tool combines almost all the available TAPoRware HTML tools into a expandable tool bar with many parameters predefined to fit most user's needs (for predefined parameter values, please click the ? symbos at the right end of each tool for details). Site owners can easily put the tool bar in their html pages. Then users can use the TAPoRware HTML tool set to analyze the pages directly while they are visiting the pages.

Ways of Using

For Site Owner

The best way to use the tool bar is to put it into a dynamically generated document page.

If all your pages are static, save the tool bar source code in a separate file, then use Server Side Include (SSI) or other script include directive to import the code to your pages.

To use the tool bar, you can copy and paste the code into a pair of block level HTML tags. The entire tool bar code is contained in a pair of table tags. The default location of the tool bar is floated to the top-left corner of the block. It is implemented by inline css code inside the table: style="......; float:left". You can change this to float: right to put the tool bar to the top-right corner or just delete the float property and put the code in wherever you like.

Due to your own css effects, the look and feel of tool bar may different from the one you see in our site. Most of the case, this is caused by the value of padding property (attribute). To fix it, please change the width property of #tool. to a smaller value.

You can disable any tool by commenting out the individual tool button and form.

At the end of the source code, there is a form named "paramholder" with 3 hidden controls. This allows the site owners to change the values of these there parameters based on their requirements.

If your site is designed as separated CONTAINERS, for example, all navigation bar is in one container ( <div class="navigation"> </div>), and your text content is in another container (such as <div class="main_content"> and </div>), and you wish to analyze the text content only, change the parameter values to your desired ones. For the above example, change the element value to "div", the attribute value to "class" and the attrvalue value to "main_content".

If your web site is not designed as CONTAINERS, you don't need to change anything here. It has been pre-set to "boby", i.e. entire page.

For General User

• Click the tool bar to expand/collapse the tool list
• For tools that don't need extra parameter (all parameters predefined), click the tool name to run the tool.
• For tools that do need extra parameters, you need to fill the parameter(s) first, then click the too name to run the tool.
• Click the question mark at the right end of each tool, and you can get tool-specific help information
• Click the button at the very bottom -- T-Bar from TAPoR and you get the help information about this tool bar.
• Some of the tools require java1.4.2 or above plugins. You need to install these plugins to see the results.

Warning

It was found that the TAPoRware Analysis Tool Bar's javascript sometime conflicts with the javascript of the original pages. If this occurs in your page, please modify the Tool Bar code in the following ways:

• Remove all the blank lines (wiki will replace blank line with <p> tags).
• Add <!-- <pre> immediately below the <script> and <style> open tags and add // </pre> --> immediately above the </script> and </style> close tags

If the floating Tool Bar refuses to float, we suggest you to use the non-floating version.

Known Bugs

To Do

-- LianYan - 04 Jul 2006