Edit 2 Sections on 1 page

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Last Post: May 4, 2009   (RSS)

By ajstocco - April 27, 2009

Each page on my website has a "main" content area and a "sidebar." I want to edit both areas. What's the easiest way to set this up?

Re: [ajstocco] Edit 2 Sections on 1 page

By Damon - April 28, 2009

Hi,

For "main" content area and a "sidebar" are you talking about one section of your site like News or your whole site?

Can you reply with some examples of the kinds of pages?
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Re: [Damon] Edit 2 Sections on 1 page

By ajstocco - April 28, 2009

Every page of the site has a main content area and a sidebar. Both include text and images that I'd like to edit: Example: http://customerskills.com/

Re: [ajstocco] Edit 2 Sections on 1 page

By Damon - April 29, 2009

Hi,

Right now your site is down: http://customerskills.com/

Possible the server needs to be rebooted. Check with your host.

Post again when your site is online again so I can take a look a make some suggestions for setting up CMS Builder to update the main content and sidebar areas.
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Re: [Damon] Edit 2 Sections on 1 page

By ajstocco - April 29, 2009

Should be working: http://www.customerskills.com

Re: [ajstocco] Edit 2 Sections on 1 page

By Damon - April 30, 2009

Hi,

Thanks for the update.

To update the "main" content area and a "sidebar" on each page of your site, I suggest you use a WYSIWYG editor for the Main Content and anther WYSIWYG editor for the sidebar.

Most of the pages of you site could be setup as Single Record sections. (ex. Home, Sales Training, Customer Service Training, etc.)

When you create a section for each, create a "wysiwyg" field for both "Main Content" and the "Sidebar".

Then generate the code to add both into your site pages.

Does this make sense? Let me know if you need more details or have any other questions.
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Re: [ajstocco] Edit 2 Sections on 1 page

By ross - April 30, 2009

Hi there.

We don't have a specific tutorial for this but we can work through the process right here if you like :).

The first step is going to be creating a multi record section in your system. You can call it something like "Single Pages". In that section, create three fields:

Page Title (textfield)
Main Content (textbox or wysiwyg)
Sidebar Content (textbox or wysiwyg)

Then go through and create one record in that section for each page you want to update. You won't actually be displaying the Page Title field anywhere on your site. That's just used to keep things organized in your system.

Once you have that setup, let me know and we'll go from there.

The next step is going to be setting up a bunch of pages on your site and telling them which record to grab data from.

It's easier than it sounds :).

Keep me up to date with how you are making out.
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Re: [ross] Edit 2 Sections on 1 page

By ajstocco - April 30, 2009

Hi Ross,

Then go through and create one record in that section for each page you want to update.


What do I set the "Field Type" as for each of the pages?

Re: [ajstocco] Edit 2 Sections on 1 page

By ross - May 1, 2009

Hi

I think we've confused ourselves :).

You create one section called Single Pages and setup three fields in it:

Page Title (textfield)
Main Content (textbox or wysiwyg)
Sidebar Content (textbox or wysiwyg)

You then create a record (ie: click the Create button) for each page of your site. This step doesn't involve creating a new field so there is no field type. You click Create and fill out the three fields that are there.

Does that make more sense? Let me know :).
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