2.3.3. Site navigation

The navigation panel will be displayed on all pages of your online portal. With ViArt CMS you can change the way it is displayed for each layout. Also you can distinguish pages shown to all your visitors and only to those who logged in.

Please go to Administration > Layouts > (the layout you are editing) > Site Navigation

Actually Site Navigation consists of a series of links to different parts of your site. For your convenience there are two ways of presenting its administration section: Datasheet view and Tree view.

Datasheet view

This view allows editing all menu items in one window.

Here you have to fill out the following columns:

Menu Title describes how the menu item will be named and what title will be shown in menu.
Menu URL specifies the URL to the page in the root directory the menu item points to.
Menu Image provides the URL to the image shown as menu item. You can specify images for inactive (when a customer is in another section) and active items (when a customer is in this very section of your site). If left blank, the 'Image Title' value will be used.

Note: You can change the navigation images depending on the language used, i.e. the system will show different images for different languages. In order to do this you have to create a separate folder for each language and put it into the folder where basic images are stored. For example, your basic images are stored at images/default/menu/, then you have to create a folder and name it like images/default/menu/en/ for English, images/default/menu/de/ for German and so on. You can take the language codes from the ‘Static tables’ section see section 4.3). Note that if there are no images for a specific language, the system will take the corresponding ones from the parent folder.

Show for non-logged users. If ticked the item will be shown to all site visitors.
Show for logged users. You can clear the check box and the system will hide this page from non-logged visitors. Primarily it is used for customer's home page. Delete will delete the item from the navigation.

If you want to add more menu items click the 'Add' button.
In order to save the changes you made click the 'Update' button.
In order to delete all items click the 'Delete all' button.
If you want to leave without saving click 'Cancel'.

Tree view

Unlike the datasheet view here you have to edit each menu item in a separate window. Please choose the item you need and click the corresponding ‘Edit Item’ link.

Basically all the fields are the same as in the datasheet view except the following ones:

Parent item specifies the parent directory where the item will be placed in case you need a multi-level menu.
Order defines the item's position in the navigation menu. Note that entering the order number of an existing item will interchange the items.

In order to save the changes you made click the 'Update' button.
In order to delete the item click the 'Delete' button.
If you want to leave without saving click 'Cancel'.

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