Other features of the Add Page facility
As well as the Basic tab on the Add page dialog box, there are three other tabs, the Description, Navigation and Permissions tabs. This page explains the features of the Description and Navigation tabs.
Description Tab
This is used to enter a short (optional) abstract for the page, for news summaries or search queries. The abstract is normally a short summary of the page content which, if selected to be viewed by a News Feed, will appear along with the story title.
Image
This is used to enter an (optional) image for the page, for news summaries. The image is normally one relevant to a news story and which if selected to be viewed by a News Feed, will appear as a thumbnail along with the story title.
Navigation Tab
Link title
This is the name which automatically appears in the navigational menu on the left hand side of the page. The latter should be kept as short as possible in order not to take up valuable space in this menu, i.e. if the "Title" (set in the Basic tab) is overlong, a separate and shorter title should be inserted here.
External link
This is used to link the page directly
to an internet (or other) web page.
Menu Position
determines exactly where (at what level) the new page will be added to the navigational menu (see example below). There are two main options:-
- Top of hierarchy - adds a page as a "parent" page at the top level. This option also allows:-
- Display above bar - this allows you to place the menu item above "the bar", i.e. the horizontal line which separates menu items common to each section from others, more particular to the section concerned. NB This only applies to pages goverened by a template which includes a "bar".
- Child of page - most new pages will be "children" of existing pages, i.e. they will be sub-pages of some main (parent) page. The parent page is set by clicking the ellipsis button
to bring up the Page Selector tool.
Hide child pages from navigation
This feature allows the titles of child pages to be made invisible in the left hand menu bar. It could be useful where, for example, a very large number of news stories has a common parent and which take up too much space in the menu bar.
Start date
You can work on a page in advance before it goes public by choosing a "start date" sometime in the future by clicking the calendar grid icon to the right of the Start date entry box. This launches the Choose date dialog box (see screenshot below); browse to the start date required and click it to enter the chosen date into the Add Page dialog box. Alternatively, this date could simply be typed in manually in the dd/mm/yyyy format.
End date
You can set a page to be automatically deleted at a time in the future by choosing a "end date" by clicking the calendar grid icon to the right of the End date entry box. This launches the Choose date dialog box (see screenshot below); browse to the end date required and click it to enter the chosen date into the Add Page dialog box. Alternatively, this date could simply be typed in manually in the dd/mm/yyyy format. The page (together with any child pages) will be automatically deleted on the date you set.
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Example of using menu position - a new page is to be placed as a child of a page called "Content Freezing":-
Choose the Child of page option in the Advanced tab of the Add Page dialog box (Menu Position pulldown menu) and click the button to bring up the Page Selector dialog box:-
- We want the new page to be a child of the Content Freezing page so we select the relevant Content Freezing link (not the "+" to the left - clicking this will allow you to "drill down" through any child pages to find the one required to be the new parent)
- The Page Selector dialog box closes automatically when the correct page has been selected; the page number of the selected parent page should now appear under the Child of Page box (NB this could alternatively have been typed in manually)
- Click OK in the Add Page box
