Content & navigation
Navigation Menus and structure
Inka on Plone works differently from many other content management systems. Instead of creating content and then adding it to menus there is a heirachical structure you place your content into and the menus automatically reflect the internal structure. This has several implications
- you need to decide where your content should appear before you create it
- to change the menu structure involves moving content or adding "link" objects
- to change a url of an object you need to find the parent of the part content and change its short name.
- to create a submenu or longer url you create a content when viewing the page you want as parent.
Managing Content with the Contents Tool
The folder icon on the left toolbar is the "Contents" tool. The contents tool allows for bulk renaming, moving, reordering, duplicating and uploading of content.
Cut/Copy/Paste - moving content
You can move content/pages around the site using Cut and then Paste. Select the items using checkboxes, click cut, navigate to the folder you want to move the items and then paste. Not cut won't immediatly remove the items from the old location until you paste.
This doesn't copy content to your computer's clipboard, so you can't paste it into other applications.
Plone will automatically add redirects for moved content so any external urls pointing to it's old url will still work. You can view these redirects under "URL Management" either via the toolbar or the control panel
Copy allows you to duplicate content but it also won't create the copy until you click paste in the desired location.
URL Management/Rename
Each item has a "short name" and a "Title". The "short name" is what appears in the url. The full url path is made up of the short name of the item, then the "short name" of the folder it's in and so on up to the site root. If you want to edit this url you need to rename the item or parent pages until you have the url you want.
Renaming is done in "Contents" via the selecting the item and clicking rename. It can also be done while editing an item under the metadata tab on the right sidebar. Renaming will automatically add redirects for the old urls so external links using that url will still work.
Deleting
To delete an item you are currently viewing
Note the item's title
Make a note of the title of the item you're viewing.
Go to Contents
Click the folder icon on the left toolbar.
Find the item to delete
Use the breadcrumbs to move up to the parent, then find the content. Tip: use “Show all” at the bottom right and your browser's find to search by title.
Select it and click Delete
Tick the item, then click Delete.
There's no easy way to recover a deleted item, so do this carefully. If you delete something by mistake, see Transaction Undo below — and do it as soon as possible, before other content changes need undoing too.
If you would like to redirect external urls that pointed to that deleted content,
Go to the redirect target
Open the item you want the old URL to point to.
Open URL Management
Choose URL Management from the left toolbar.
Enter the old path
Enter the path of the old URL of the content you deleted.
Navigation menus/Ordering
The order of items inside a parent page can be controlled by dragging items up and down in the Contents tool. This is how you get a different order in the top level navigation menu. You can also use a listing block and choose to sort it by contents order.
If you would like to hide an item from the top level navigation, there is a setting for this when you editing the content. In the page settings.
If you want to add an item to a menu that is located in another folder, either move the item or you can use can create a Link content in the place in the menus you want the content to appear and set it's target to the actual location of the content. In this case the user will be redirected into the new location after they click on the menu item since content can't be in two places at once.
Bulk Upload
There is a bulk upload tool in the top left of the "Contents" tool. It allows you to drag and drop files from your desktop or click and select files to upload. It will give the files a "short name" using the filename but you can use rename to change this after.
Alternativelly you can use "Add > File" to create file content one by one.
During editing you are also able to upload Images and Videos directly into blocks. Note however this will create file or image objects.
If you upload images to a page before it's first saved, they appear in the parent. You can safely move them into the page where they're used — Plone's automatic linking keeps them working.