CMS Builder & Website Navigation
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Last Post: October 27, 2011 (RSS)
By (Deleted User) - October 27, 2011
Hi Guys,
I used CMS Builder for my own site and I was very impressed and I have someone who may want to use it as well.
However they asked me about the option of updating the website navigation automatically using CMS Builder. What they basically want to know is can you have your website menu or navigation mimic the section editors so that they show up on the website when you create a section editor?
Example:
If I create section editor "About Us" in CMSB then a new link called 'About Us' will be added to my front-end website menu.
The client basically wants to control what appears on their website navigation and where it clicks to without having to manually edit the HTML in the front-end webpages.
Thank you.
Shawn
I used CMS Builder for my own site and I was very impressed and I have someone who may want to use it as well.
However they asked me about the option of updating the website navigation automatically using CMS Builder. What they basically want to know is can you have your website menu or navigation mimic the section editors so that they show up on the website when you create a section editor?
Example:
If I create section editor "About Us" in CMSB then a new link called 'About Us' will be added to my front-end website menu.
The client basically wants to control what appears on their website navigation and where it clicks to without having to manually edit the HTML in the front-end webpages.
Thank you.
Shawn
Re: [smesa] CMS Builder & Website Navigation
Hi Shawn,
The short answer is yes, but I can't think of an easy way to do it totally automatically.
For a semi-automatic approach, you could set up an multi record "Navigation" editor for a navigation menu with only 3 fields. One for the Link URL (the target page URL) , another for the link text (to appear in the nav menu) and a Hidden check box.
When your client wants to add, delete (or hide) a navigation item, or change the order that they appear in, they can do that in this editor.
In the viewer, the navigation menu is a simple foreach loop that lists all of the visible records in the "Navigation" editor.
Of course there needs to be a target page set up for the link to connect to, but it sounds like you've addressed that already.
There are probably other ways to accomplish this, but that's one approach.
Best,
Jerry Kornbluth
The short answer is yes, but I can't think of an easy way to do it totally automatically.
For a semi-automatic approach, you could set up an multi record "Navigation" editor for a navigation menu with only 3 fields. One for the Link URL (the target page URL) , another for the link text (to appear in the nav menu) and a Hidden check box.
When your client wants to add, delete (or hide) a navigation item, or change the order that they appear in, they can do that in this editor.
In the viewer, the navigation menu is a simple foreach loop that lists all of the visible records in the "Navigation" editor.
Of course there needs to be a target page set up for the link to connect to, but it sounds like you've addressed that already.
There are probably other ways to accomplish this, but that's one approach.
Best,
Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] CMS Builder & Website Navigation
By (Deleted User) - October 27, 2011
Hi Jerry,
That actually makes perfect sense. Thanks for this!
Kind regards
Shawn
That actually makes perfect sense. Thanks for this!
Kind regards
Shawn
Re: [smesa] CMS Builder & Website Navigation
Hi Shawn,
Glad it made sense.
Hope you'll get a chance to take a look at my CMSB Cookbook http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com for other ideas.
Jerry Kornbluth
Glad it made sense.
Hope you'll get a chance to take a look at my CMSB Cookbook http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com for other ideas.
Jerry Kornbluth
The first CMS Builder reference book is now available on-line!
Take advantage of a free 3 month trial subscription, only for CMSB users, at: http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com/trial.php
Take advantage of a free 3 month trial subscription, only for CMSB users, at: http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com/trial.php