Jumping straight to first child / subsection

[itmdesign]

Hi everyone,

I apologize if this has been covered before, but I've had a good root around and can't find anything that covers it:

I plan on splitting sections with previous and next links as described in the AUG.

I would like to lay out the products like this:

(parent section) Widgets

> (subsection) Widgets Page 1, Widgets Page 2 etc (the sibling sections used for previous and next links)

I have the navigation to show only the top level sections, however, I would like the user to navigate straight to the first page of the child section when clicking the link.

For example, if the user clicks on Widgets, they will be taken to Widgets Page 1

I've been using blocks and actinic variables quite happily but I can't get my head around this one! Is it possible? Any help would be very gratefully received.

Thanks,

Chris

[AndyBorrett]

The easiest way would be to hard code the top level links to the first subpage. Alternatively you could look at the childsectionlist block and listindex if that makes any sense to you

[itmdesign]

Hi, thanks for replying! I'll look into those variables, see if I can do anything with them. I've been looking into this for a few days now, I'm starting to consider putting a load of 301 redirects on the server!

[leehack]

Why not simplify it and have the products for page 1 sitting in the main widgets section? then have your page 2,3 etc.

Or do it like this - http://www.atlanticshopping.co.uk/ac...ollection.html - where just the sub sections are in the menu and not the parent.

[itmdesign]

Why not simplify it and have the products for page 1 sitting in the main widgets section? then have your page 2,3 etc.

Thanks Lee, I'm liking that idea, the only problem with that is on the first page I would have to change the 'next' link to link to the first child section, and likewise have the first child section 'previous' link to the parent section..

I would like to keep this as dynamic as possible, so are there variables in Actinic to manage this with blocks?

[leehack]

Depends if exclusive to one or two sections or needs to be globally rolled out really. We had one specific section to do so set up the menu as i showed you and created the page nav fragment like you see on here - http://www.atlanticshopping.co.uk/ac...ols_Page1.html

[leehack]

Page 2 onwards the standard actinic next and previous section links should move between them, so you are only looking at worst at manually creating these on the first page as i see it?

[itmdesign]

Thanks Lee. This is for a customer who will almost definately will end up changing section names etc, so I've not hard coded anything so far..

I think the first step is to move the first set of products into the parent section as per your suggestion, and then try adding a set of variables at section level that can be toggled/edited by the customer with relative ease - I'll give that a go tonight