Hello dear Couchies!

I have just realized, that I do not understand something about options in Admin Panel related to Nested Pages. Everything is fine and it functions, but I was convinced that when I make a menu in the administration panel, I have to redirect Parent Page to the sub-page in order to make a hierarchical menu.
As I have just discovered, the hierarchical menu is functioning also when I do not activate "redirect " in the Advanced Settings. it seems to be enough to just choose the Parent Page.

Also, when a page is redirecting, activating the option"mark as selected pages below" seems not to make any difference..

I would appreciate any clarification!!!
Tanja

Hello again dear Couchies!

I guess I should ask a more concrete question for my problem...it is about usability in the administration panel, when it comes to nested pages...
The site has a structure with nested pages, like this

Home
About
- Team
- - Person 1
- - Person 1
Contact

So "Team" is nested within "About" and contains two pages... Menu works fine in the browser...

BUT in administrator panel, if I just leave all like it is, and if I click on "About" I see editable regions...
I guess, editable regions in the Parent Page should not be available , because Parent Page actually plays kind of a "Folder-Role" (I am aware that nested pages do not support folders, I just try to be clear)...
So I wonder if this is meant to be so? Or do I have some issue with the server? Because this server does not support Masquearding...

So I use the option form the "Advanced Settings" to redirect the Parent-Page to its first Child-Page, and same for the Child-Page to its two Children-Pages...Now, editable regions in Parent-Pages are not available....

But is that the correct approach? I went through "Nested Pages" tutorial once more, and I did not find anything on this topic...
I also could not find about "Mark as selected in menu for all pages below this link" in this tutorial...

thank you in advance!!! Hope some one can clarify this to me!!!
Best regards
Tanja

[KK]

Hi Tanja,

I was convinced that when I make a menu in the administration panel, I have to redirect Parent Page to the sub-page in order to make a hierarchical menu.

To create the hierarchy, you only need to specify one page as the 'Parent page' of the others - no redirection is mandatory.

There are cases where even the parent pages will require editable region of their own (just like the child pages). For such cases, use the parent page as an ordinary page.

However for cases, such as yours, where the parent page functions simply as a 'container' for the child pages, it is perfectly OK to make it a 'pointer' page (so that the editable regions are not shown) and then leave the location being pointed to blank.

In fact, if you use the <cms:menu> tag to generate the front-end menu, it will sense that the parent page is pointing to a blank location and will generate the following to cater to that -

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<a href="#" onClick="return false">

So, in closing, the way you decided to structure the pages is perfectly fine.

Hope this answers your query.

Hi Kamran!

Thank you very much for clarifying this! I was so unsure about that!

Thank you for your time!!!

Best ,
Tanja

Hello Couchies again!

I made a nested pages menu and the first cloned page that is supposed to serve as a homepage (first page to land ) was appearing as the list view. So I decided to make another template, startpage.php, and to redirect the first nested page (homepage) to that template. This first nested page has page name "Home". Just for the reference - the whole website has two templates - index.php and startpage.php

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SOLVED

I solved i.e. I recalled that list view is always appearing as "home page" and that for home button I have to use redirect to the domain URL, and to call editable regions of the startpage.php template into the list-view of index.php to make the home page....

Thanks anyway for just being there Couch Forum and forumities!!

Tanja