Manage Sections
STOP PRESS: QnE is no longer a commercial product - and is no longer being sold from this website.
- QnE will continue to be developed, though not as a commercial product.
- Existing clients and licenses will continue to be supported - and all existing agreements will be honoured.
- if you have any questions about this change please get in touch via the contact form.
Note: in earlier versions of QnE 'Sections' were called 'Categories'. User feedback led to this feature being renamed, 'Sections'.
The basic idea is that you put pages into sections to organise them, e.g., all your pages that are part of the 'About' area on your site, can be added to a section called, 'About'. You create sections yourself within the content management system. It is the equivalent to putting related pages into directories on a static website.
You can create as many sections as you need and you can give then any name you wish. When creating new pages or editing existing pages these sections will appear on a pull-down menu of the form. Just choose the appropriate section to add that particular page to.
Grouping pages into sections helps site developers and users
When building your site this means that a web developer can apply design features to only those pages that are part of the particular section (e.g., add a particular photograph at the top of the page off all the pages in the 'About' section).
Sections are not always important - it depends on how the website is designed; if the site uses the automated navigation they are important - if not they are less important. Automated navigation builds the navigation links by displaying links to pages that are all in the same section. For example, all the pages that are part of the 'About' section can be listed in a side-bar automatically.
Automation of menus
Sections can be used to automate the creation of index pages, navigation bars and 'breadcrumbs'. When pages are added to a sections they automatically appear on the index page for that section.
Adding and editing sections
Click the Manage sections link from the admin menu and you will be presented with the Add or edit sections form.
To add a new section
Add a section title, text to appear on the index page of this section and choose an additional text area bar would like to appear on this section index page (assuming you make use of section index pages). Click submit to add your section.
To edit a section
Choose the section from the list on the Manage section page and edit the contents of the resulting form.
Exclude pages from appearing in section index pages
To exclude a page from the navigation and index page lists, uncheck the 'Include in index page' checkbox when creating or editing a page.
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