Using Markdown

You can use the Markdown language to customise how the content or text on the Tradex Home page or the Welcome page for supplier companies is displayed. For example, while configuring the supplier Welcome page, you can copy and paste the Markdown text, which will be converted to HTML and displayed on the supplier's Welcome page.

You can use the Markdown language for the following tasks also:

·         In question labels and the comments text while adding a new question

·         In instructions to the user while configuring the task approval forms

·         In the e-mail templates

Formatting using Markdown

When you configure the content supported by Markdown formatting, you can either enter HTML directly or the codes below to provide structure and improved layout:

E-mail Content

Codes to Use

Headings

Headers are “underlined” using the equal (=) signs for the first-level headers and dashes (--) for the second-level headers.  

For example, the following is a heading:

 =============

 The following is a subheading:

 -------------

 You can use any number of underlines or dashes for headings.

 

Paragraphs

New paragraphs are created by adding an empty line to one or more lines of text. Everything between the empty lines is treated as a single paragraph.

Emphasis (bold or italics text)

If you use * or _ around the text, the text will be displayed in italics.

The text surrounded with double *’s or _’s will be displayed as bold.  

For example, if you use a *single asterisk* or   _single underscores_ the text will be displayed in italics. If you use  **double asterisks** or  __double underscores__

around the text, it will be displayed in bold.

Links

To create a link to a website, use the following syntax:

·         A set of square brackets containing the text that is displayed.

·         A set of regular brackets containing the URL to go to when the text is clicked. There is an optional title for the link, surrounded in quotes. This generates the 'hover over' text.

For example, this is [an example](http://www.example.com/ "Title") inline link.

 [This link](http://www.example.net/) has no title attribute.

Images

Embedding images resembles the syntax for links. To embed images, use the following codes:

·          An exclamation mark !

·          A set of square brackets, containing the text that is displayed when the image is not loaded.

·          A set of regular brackets, containing the URL or path to the image. There is an optional title for the image, surrounded in quotes. This title generates the 'hover-over' text.

For example,  ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg) and  ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional title")

Lists

 

You can include ordered (numbered) and unordered (bulleted) lists in your e-mails. For unordered lists, use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens — interchangeably — as list markers, as shown in the following examples:

 * Red

 * Green

 * Blue

 is equivalent to:

 + Red

 + Green

 + Blue

 and:

 - Red

 - Green

 - Blue

For ordered lists, use numbers followed by full stops, as shown in the following example:

 1. Bird

 2. McHale

 3. Parish

The actual numbers you use to mark the list have no effect on the end result. In other words, if you create a list like the following one, the output will be the

same :

 1. Bird

 1. McHale

 1. Parish

 or even:

 1. Bird

 8. McHale

 5. Parish

The following will be the output:

1. Bird

2. McHale

3. Parish