Creating a Central Account Link

A Central Account proxy lets you create an account link drop-down, allowing users viewing private output to log out or edit their MadCap Central profile settings. By default, the account link is included automatically in the header of the regular skin. However, if you want the account link to display somewhere else in the output, you can use the following steps to insert a proxy and hide the link from the regular skin.

  1. (Optional) Add a Central Account skin component if you want to control the look of the account link in the output. See Adding Skin Files.
  2. Open a topic (if you want the link to display on only one page) or template page (if you want the link to display on many pages).
  3. In the topic or template page, place your cursor where you want the account link to be added. In a template page you may need to press the down arrow on your keyboard and then press ENTER at the correct location. Then select Insert > Proxy > Insert Central Account Proxy.
  4. (Optional) In the dialog, you can select a skin component to affect the look of the account link.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Click Save the active file. to save your work.
  7. If you inserted the proxy into a template page, make sure to associate the template page with a target. See Associating Template Pages With Targets.
  8. Open the regular HTML5 skin, and set the account link to be hidden from the top of the output.
    1. In the local toolbar, make sure Web Medium is selected.
    2. On the left, select the Styles tab.
    3. In the style group section, expand Header > Central Account, and select Element.
    4. In the properties section, expand Layout, and set the Display field to none.
    5. Click Save the active file. to save your work.

After inserting a Central Account proxy, you can edit it. To do this, open the topic or template page where the proxy is inserted, right-click on it, and select Edit Central Account Proxy. You can also edit the look of the account link by editing the styles in the regular skin or the Central Account skin component that you used. See Headers in HTML5 Skins.