Hide Brochure Page from Top Link List

[pinkequine]

Hi, I am using the "Smart" Design where all the brochure pages are shown as links under the header bar.

I have integrated Form Mail into the site and created a form using layouts, it all works, including the "thankyou" page I have created as a brochure page. BUT, if I select, "Hide page from website" then the form cannot find the page "Thankyou.html" . If I then unhide it, it does.

I looked at page 47/48 on the advanced manual about "stopping specific brochure pages from appearing in the list". I created a variable called "Show Page in Sidebar" as suggested, when I go on the properties tab it shows up and I can change it to value "false" but the page still shows in the links.

I have checked the settings for the variable I created and it is exactly as shown in the manual. And as regards the code, I just cut and paste the code into the condition Editor <actinic:variable name="ShowPageInSidebar" /> == true

I'm not sure how to do a screen capture but the variable is exactly the same as the one in the advanced manual.

* Summary, all I want to do is have a thank you page for formmail submissions that is within my website, but does not show as a visible link on the website"

[los_design]

Hi, I am using the "Smart" Design where all the brochure pages are shown as links under the header bar.

I have integrated Form Mail into the site and created a form using layouts, it all works, including the "thankyou" page I have created as a brochure page. BUT, if I select, "Hide page from website" then the form cannot find the page "Thankyou.html" . If I then unhide it, it does.

I looked at page 47/48 on the advanced manual about "stopping specific brochure pages from appearing in the list". I created a variable called "Show Page in Sidebar" as suggested, when I go on the properties tab it shows up and I can change it to value "false" but the page still shows in the links.

I have checked the settings for the variable I created and it is exactly as shown in the manual. And as regards the code, I just cut and paste the code into the condition Editor <actinic:variable name="ShowPageInSidebar" /> == true

I'm not sure how to do a screen capture but the variable is exactly the same as the one in the advanced manual.

* Summary, all I want to do is have a thank you page for formmail submissions that is within my website, but does not show as a visible link on the website"

Hi

There is a simple cure to this issue and it is one we (and many of our client sites) use.

On our sites we build the contact form inside the 'shop' so it appears in the navigation.

The thank you page is built as a brochure page and as a result does not show in the navigation. Check out our site, you will see what I mean (have a play too if you wish)

Or you can build it in the shop and exclude it from the site map...

There are other work arounds but this is by far the simplest method.
HTH

[pinkequine]

Hi, the thankyou page is a brochure page, I have checked the "hide on the website" box, and it removes the ability for the form to find the page, if I un check it, the form can find the page

If you look on my testsite www.pinkequine.com you can see the links under the page header image, these are all my brochure pages. At the moment the page is visible.

I'm not sure why it isn't working the same as yours does in that case.

[pinbrook]

There is a post somewhere that tells you how to stop brochure pages appearing in the nav - not using "hide on website", the post was by Chris Dicken , I'm not sure where it is though


however it may also be documented in the Advanced User Guide

[pinkequine]

Thanks Jo, I'll check, but if it is in the Advanced guide (page 46/47), I have already looked in that and tried that option, its still not working.

I'll search out the forum post now.

I have been checking and I am now Mega lost! I cannot believe that a tab that says "hide from Website" does not do something as simple as it says!

I have tried so many things now and am tying myself in knots over it, I'm not really an experienced developer, just someone with a bit of HTML knowledge, and I'm not really "getting it" I think I will need to phone the tech support.

There seem so many posts on this problem, surely it should have been incorporated as a "working function" agghhhh!

Ok I've found a workaround, its not ideal but it works! I downloaded a copy of my "thankyou page" to my hard drive from my FTP site, then I uploaded a version of my website with the "hide from website" checked. It does hide the thankyou page from the website, but the top link on the thankyou page includes a link to "thankyou". I don't expect anyone will notice.....