When a chapter/division site is initially created, the navigation menu will look something like this:
This menu is completely customizable based on how a chapter/division would like to organize its content.
First, let's take a look at what this menu actually looks like in the CMS. If you look at each link above, you will notice that each link has its own folder below within the "Main Button Bar" area. Each folder represents a main navigation link on the site and also a page on your site. You'll notice there are two folders -- Network and RSS -- that do not show in the navigation. This is because those folders were specifically set to be "hidden" without actually deleting them from the site.
You will also notice some folders have + signs next to them. These folders have subfolders (or children) that appear as dropdown menu items. You can expand these folders to view the subfolders by clicking on the + sign.
In this example below, we are expanding the "About Us" folder, and you can see that there is a subfolder titled "Adding Text Link."
This is how it appears on the site itself:
In addition to the link to this new page in our drop-down menu, if you click on the "About Us" tab, you will also see a link to this page in the left-hand navigation.
Creating a new navigation link
Now that you have an understanding of how the folders work in relation to the site, let's demonstrate how to create a new main navigation link for your site.
For this example, we'll be creating a new main navigation link called "Join" that will appear between "About Us" and "Meetings & Events."
From the navigation/content controls, highlight the "About Us" folder (A new folder will always be inserted BELOW the folder you have highlighted). Click the "New" button to create our new folder. (Note: If you were to select "New child" here instead, it would create a new folder INSIDE the About Us folder. Since we are creating a new main navigation link, we do not want to create a new child.)
You should see your new folder. Type in the new folder's name ("Join," in this example), which is what will appear in the navigation menu.
You should now see the new navigation link in your menu. However, because there is no content on the page yet, clicking on the link will display a message that the page is currently blank.
Before we add content, let's take a look at some of the options for this page in terms of layout and also who has access to it. From the navigation/content controls, highlight our new folder and click the "Edit" button along the top ribbon.
See the highlighted options below. These are two of the most common changes you might make to a page folder.
If you want the page to display in more than one column, you can change the page layout. You might also want to choose "Hide this navigation but leave its content on the site." This is helpful if you want to work on a page before you actually put the navigation link on the site for members to find. When you're done with the new page, you can reselect the "Show this navigation" option.
Adding content to a new page folder
Now that we've created a new page folder and we've selected the layout and accessibility options we want, we can now actually create the content to go on the page. To do this, make sure the new folder is highlighted and select the "New" button underneath the Content area of the navigation/controls page.
This will create a new content item for your new page, just as you've done before on other areas of the site. Simply type in your content using the WYSIWYG editor and the new content will appear on your new page.
Reordering navigation links
If you simply want to reorganize your navigation links, that can be done as well. For this example, let's say we would like our new "Join" menu link to be displayed before the About Us link.
Highlight the folder you want to move and click the scissors icon to cut. Be patient here. It may seem like nothing happens when you click cut but keep going.
As we mentioned when we created a new folder, a folder is always placed BELOW the folder you highlight. The same goes when moving existing folders. Since we want to place the Join link above About Us (and below Home), we need to highlight the Home folder. Once the Home folder is highlighted, click the Paste icon.
You should now see the Join link above the About Us link.
Note: Content items can be rearranged in the same way using the cut, copy and paste options under the Content section. However, currently you cannot cut a content item and paste into a different folder. You can only cut and copy content items within the same folder.
