Including brouchure pages in the sitemap

[RuralWeb]

Ive just added my brochure pages to my sitemap as per the AUG. All went well except that it palces the brochure navigation images into the sitemap not the title text as is done with the products.

This is very disapointing as the whole idea behind including the brochure page is to produce a sitemap that the SEs can follow and make it easy for visitors to find what they want.

I have many brochure pages on some sites and the vast majority do not have navigation images associated with them so the are all being listed as "Brochure"

Is this the way this is intended to work? I am sure there is a fix - has anyone done it yet.

[RuralWeb]

Solved part of the problem:

Select Brochure Page Text Link List in design tree- edit appearance - set to text brochure page link.

This makes the links show the brochure page titel in text. The only problem now is that they are shown horizonaly when the should be vertical.

[jont]

Malcolm - have you tried creating then modifying a new layout selector based on the original and applying that?

[RuralWeb]

No - I will give it a go. When I originally created the layout it described itself as horizontal but that vanished when I selected the text layout.

[cdicken]

Malcolm - I'm sorry the instructions in the AUG didn't yield the results you expected. I've just checked them, and found that they do create a list of text links one underneath the other, rather than images beside each other. I'm confused as to how the instructions could have gone so wrong - I deliberately wrote them to create a list exactly how you required it.

An alternative is to copy the following code block into the 'Sitemap Page Bulk Area'

<actinic:block type="BrochurePagesList">
 - <a href="<actinic:variable name="BrochurePageURL" />"><actinic:variable name="BrochureName" /></a>
<br />
</actinic:block>

This is using the new 'Advanced List' technology which is described on page 54 of the AUG.

[RuralWeb]

http://www.hunterspuddings.co.uk/acatalog/sitemap.html this is what the AUG produces after selecting text layout. I will try your code.

[cdicken]

Looking good. if you wanted to get the code from the AUG working, check the following steps:

12. Click the 'Edit List Layout Settings' button.
13. Change to the 'Edit Rows and Columns' tab and replace each instance of '&nbsp;' in the grid with '<br />'.

It's a bit tricky getting under the hood of lists in Actinic, but this basically gets the 'list' to insert a <br /> after each item in the list - and so they go one under the other rather than next to each other.

[RuralWeb]

12. Click the 'Edit List Layout Settings' button.
13. Change to the 'Edit Rows and Columns' tab and replace each instance of '&nbsp;' in the grid with '<br />'.

Trying 13. there is no &nbsp; in the table all the fields are blank. When I enter <br/> into the after fields it increases the spacing between the product links only.

I cannot seem to highlight the brouchure page links to get to edit them, I can only get to the section links.

[cdicken]

Hi Malcolm. I've attached a design import file to this message that you can try if you want. You need to unzip the acd file in the attached zip file and then import it via 'File | Snapshot | Import Site'. Once you have imported the file successfully, just paste the following code into your 'Sitemap Page Bulk Area' layout:

<actinic:variable name="BrochurePageList" value="CD Sitemap Brochure Page List" />

That should get you up and running. The layouts I have added into your library both start with 'CD' so you can find them easily with the library search tool.

[RuralWeb]

Will that overwrite the current site

[jont]

Malcolm - they are probably just layout selectors to choose from the list when imported due to their naming ... CD prefix probably = Chris Dicken

[RuralWeb]

OK - working in full backup mode now!

[jont]

With 2 copies on CD, 1 on DVD, 1 on a Flash Drive and a copy uploaded to 3 secure servers "just-in-case" .... you know v8 by now

[RuralWeb]

Well it did not overwrite the site and it puts the list into the correct format BUT it is repeating the brochure page links 11 times

[cdicken]

Blimey - you are not wrong!

Could you send a snapshot to the same address as before and I'll see what's going on.