Header control and Skip Navigation Links updated

The Header control is updated to include the new ‘upper tool bar’ (sign-In tool bar) feature with Sign-In, Print Page and Select Language buttons and the Skip Navigation Links link.

Migration effects

None for applications created with Iron Speed Designer V4.0 and later.  During migration, existing header control files are retained so your migrated application has exactly the same look as your original application.

For applications created with Iron Speed Designer V3.2 and earlier, Header.xml and Header.html are automatically replaced with the latest files.

What you should do

You can manually add the new upper tool bar feature to your application.

Step 1: Delete your application’s existing Header.html, Head.xml, and Header.ascx.vb files from your application's Header and Footer folder.

Step 2:  Copy Header.html file from current design theme folder into your application's Header and Footer folder.  The Head.xml and Header.ascx.vb files will be automatically updated when you next build your application.

Step 3:  Rebuild and run your application.

If you manually add the new upper tool bar feature to your application and you have enabled Skip Navigation Links feature for Section 508 compliance, then you will have duplicate Skip Navigation Links links in your application pages.  One of these links is part of the new Header control; the other is part of the page and should be removed since it is obsolete.  The Skip Navigation Links option in the Application Generation Options dialog will not enable or disable the obsolete Skip Navigation Links control.

To remove the obsolete Skip Navigation Links link, delete the code generation tag (GEN tag) for the obsolete Skip Navigation Links link present in each of your application’s HTML layout pages.

<GEN:Hyperlink Name="SkipNavigationLinks"/>

You should do this for all HTML layout pages, including the Select Language, Sign In and Sign out pages.

See Also

Version 5.1 Application Migration