Regions

Region Management Buttons

These buttons allow you to navigate and manage the regions as follows:

Regular Expression Box

If you have selected User-Defined Regions, this box appears, and displays the current regular expression being used. To edit the regular expression, click the Edit button, and make your changes in the resulting dialog box.

Display Parent Region

When you have selected to view the sub-regions of a selected region, click this button to return to the original, or parent, region.

Suspend Layout / Resume Layout

Every time you select a new region, Rapid Meta-Tags will re-calculate all the meta-tags for your selection. This can take up to a second for very large pages, so that if you have a number of regions to select, the process can take an irritating amount of time. To prevent Rapid Sitemaps from refreshing every time you select a new region, click Suspend Layout. You will now be able to select as many regions as you want without having to wait for Rapid Sitemaps to refresh each time. When you have finished selecting regions, click the Resume Layout button to refresh your meta-tags with the current content.

Set As Template

Click this button to set your current Regions selection as the default for new files. Any new pages opened, whether they be from file, URL or just new blank pages, will have these Regions selected. Not only will the type of Region be remembered, but which Regions you had selected will also be remembered. If the Regions are named (eg: FrontPage Regions), Rapid Meta-Tags will try to select Regions with that name only in any new file opened. If, on the other hand, the Regions are not named (eg: Table Regions), Rapid Meta-Tags will remember their positions, and try to select Regions in those positions again.

Example 1:

You have selected FrontPage Regions, and Rapid Meta-Tags has found two Regions in your page; one named "doctitle" and one named "main". You have selected the Region named "main", but not the Region named "doctitle". You click the Set As Template button, to set your current selection as the default, and open a new file. Rapid Meta-Tags analyses the page, and finds the two regions, named "doctitle" and "main". The "main" Region is selected. You open another page, and Rapid-Mate-Tags finds three regions, named "doctitle", "pagetitle" and "content". There is no Region named "main", so no Regions are selected.

Example 2:

You have selected Table Regions, and Rapid Meta-Tags has found one table, with three rows, each of which has three cells. You select only the middle cell (Table 1; Row 2; Cell 2), and click Set As Template to set your current selection as the default. You open a second file, and Rapid Meta-Tags identifies one table, with six rows, each of which have two cells. The second cell of the second row is selected. You open a third file, and Rapid Meta-Tags finds two tables. The first has one row of three cells, and the second three rows of three cells. No cells are selected, because the first table does not have a second row.

Apply To All Open Files

Click this button to apply your current Regions selection to all the files currently open. This will override whatever Regions are currently selected in the open files. Not only will the type of Region be applied, but which Regions you had selected will also be applied. If the Regions are named (eg: FrontPage Regions), Rapid Meta-Tags will try to select Regions with those names only. If, on the other hand, the Regions are not named (eg: Table Regions), Rapid Meta-Tags will remember the positions of the selected Regions, and try to select Regions in those positions again.

Example 1:

You have selected FrontPage Regions, and Rapid Meta-Tags has found two Regions in your page; one named "doctitle" and one named "main". You have selected the Region named "main", but not the Region named "doctitle". You click the Apply To All Open Files button, to apply your current selection to all your open files. Rapid Meta-Tags analyses the first file you have open, and finds the two regions, named "doctitle" and "main". The "main" Region is selected. Rapid-Mate-Tags then analyses the next file, and finds three regions, named "doctitle", "pagetitle" and "content". There is no Region named "main", so no Regions are selected.

Example 2:

You have selected Table Regions, and Rapid Meta-Tags has found one table, with three rows, each of which has three cells. You select only the middle cell (Table 1; Row 2; Cell 2), and click Apply To All Open Files to apply your current selection to all the open files. Rapid Meta-Tags checks the first open file, and identifies one table, with six rows, each of which have two cells. The second cell of the second row is selected. Rapid Meta-Tags then analyses the second open file, and finds two tables. The first has one row of three cells, and the second three rows of three cells. No cells are selected, because the first table does not have a second row.