CORE allows you to completely customize customise the look and feel of a conference.

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Custom layout

Let's assume that your conference has the abbreviation myconf.

1. Stylesheets, images, javascript

All of the publicly accessible files for your layout should be stored in a subdirectory of public/includes.
This folder must have the following structure:

includes/
    css
    gfx
    js

You can start by copying the supplied 'democonf' folder:

cp -r public/includes-templates/democonf public/includes/myconf

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Copy the 'democonf' layout directory as a starting point:

cp -r application/layouts-templates/scripts/democonf application/layouts/scripts/myconf

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Create a navigation configuration file in application/config/navigation/.
The name should be <abbreviation>.php, so in this case that would be application/config/navigation/myconf.php.
You can start by copying the supplied democonf configuration file:

cp application/configs-templates/navigation/democonf.php application/configs/navigation/myconf.php

Your navigation file should always return an array. The syntax of the array elements can be found in the Zend docs.

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Activate navigation

Select the custom navigation option in the conference manager.

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Extra content

For new content you need to add a new module.

You can copy the "webdemo" module:

cp -r application/modules-templates/webdemo application/modules/web

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CORE allows you to send automatically generated emails. For example, the submit feature allows you to send an e-mail email to all reviewers of certain papers. This e-mail is generated from two templates. A dynamic template which is generated by CORE and a static template which can contain text, like signature, disclaimers etc. The static e-mail template will be appended to the CORE generated e-mail template.
The name of the static e-mail template is always: abbreviation-<action>.phtml, so for example example myconf-reviewers.phtml and is  is located in: application/modules/core/views/emails/