Overview
What is a section menu? Explanation of the difference between this and a nav menu.
Your BPD website features two types of menus: the navigation menu - for products and categories, and the section menu - for content.
Your site's footer probably has at least one section menu, but you may have others in use elsewhere.
The newly-updated Section Menu Editor in the CMS makes creating and editing your content menus quick and easy.
Create a New Menu
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- In the CMS, select Navigation → Section Menu Editor.
- Click Create New Menu.
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- Give your menu a description / label.
- Save.
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- Add Item to Menu.
- Select the type of menu item you wish to add
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- - page, link, product, or category
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- The dropdown list will change depending on the menu type you choose - you can lookup products/ categories, existing pages, or input a completet URL for a link.
- Valid URLs must start with either http:// or https://
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- Javascript code must start with javascript:
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- You can select additional options for Pages:
- Include in Site Map
- Open in New Window (this option is also available for Links)
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- Next, you can configure who can access this menu. Go to Options → Associated Roles.
- This displays all the top level menus and the Roles that are linked to them.
- By default, new section menus are linked to ALL menu codes. You can toggle off the ones you don't want right here.
- Don't forget to Save.
Repeat the above steps to build out your section menu. You can drag and drop the menu items to rearrange them.
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By default, each item you add to a section menu will inherit the role permissions of the parent. However, you can restrict this access further if reqqujiredrequired.
- Select the section menu you wish to edit.
- For the menu item you wish to edit, go to Options → Associated Roles.
- You'll see all the menus and their roles, each wioth a toggle. It's here that you can toggle off the ones you don't want to apply to this menu item.
- Save.
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