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Understanding layout parts

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Understanding layout parts

- [Instructor] When you're working in Layout Mode, you may have noticed that your layouts are divided into these little sections here. You can see these on the left hand side. These are what are called layout parts. By default, whenever you create a new layout, you get three parts with it: the header, as you see here, the body, and then the footer. I'm going to show you the different parts that you can have on a layout and discuss how you can manipulate some of these. And the way that you get to these is first of all, in Layout Mode, then you'll go imto the layout menu and select Part Setup. And in the Part Setup window, you'll see whatever parts you currently have on the layout. Now first of all, you should know that each layout must have at least one part, and that layout parts can contain fields, portals, buttons, texts, any other layout object. Primarily, the Body part is the one that's going to contain all the fields. And this is the part where you're creating the experience that…

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