Brochure Navigation

[AlistairW]

Hi,

Having recently purchased Actinic for our website along with a hosting package I am impressed with how user friendly the software is, not requring too much intervention getting it up and running. However, I am having difficulty with the Brochure navigation. I am using a smart template as the base for the site, this gives a text navigation bar near the top of the page. I need to add quite a few brochure pages, for each new page I make a link is automatically generated within the navigation bar. Consequently I am going to end up with a very confusing looking system, I need to remove these new pages from the navigation bar and link to them from one page. I cannot see how this is done, is there an easy way or do you have to remove the links and code them in manually ? If this is the case which templates need to be modified ?

many thanks
Alistair

[wjcampbe]

The secret here would be to create depth in your structure

Brochure home page
|-------- Product info
|                  |------Prod 1 info
|                  |------Prod 2 info
|                  |------Prod 3 info
|--------- Company Info
|                  |---- About Us
|                  |---- How to find us
|                  |---- Other services

so that there is only one or two page links to show up at the top brochure level. i.e. create brochure sections and subsections.

[AlistairW]

Many thanks for your response, that sounds like an ideal solution. I have looked through the settings and cannot see how to create sections and sub sections within the brochure - just the products section. Am I missing something ?

thanks, Alistair

[wjcampbe]

I stopped using Brochure pages some time ago and now just simulate a Brochure in Catalog sections.

Try a right click on a brochure page and, if available, select the option create a sub section. If not, try dragging a completed page and dropping it onto another.

[AlistairW]

Thanks for your ideas, you cannot seem to create sections within the brochure itself. My solution has been to edit the Act_BrochurePrimary file from within the site directory and edit out the NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE entry, and code the menu at that point manually. I am surprised that there is not an option to individually exclude brochure pages from the brochure navigation menu - but if there is I can't find it.

Thanks again - Alistair

[pinbrook]

I stopped using Brochure pages some time ago and now just simulate a Brochure in Catalog sections.

I've just cottoned on to this aswell. I use a customvar to create the link to the "brochure page to allow the client the option of changing the link.

This is a useful addidion if you want to have brochure pages whilst also opening the site at acatalog/index.html