Custom Sidebar Menus

A sidebar menu is made up of a special folder called "sidebar" which contains Favorite objects for each of the items on the menu.

How to add sidebar menus to a section

1. Login
2. Go to a page in the section you want to edit. (For example, go to http://www.seattleyachtclub.org/Public/OpeningDay)
3. In the Editing Tools box, click "Folder contents"
4. Look for a folder called "sidebar"
   1. If you find one, click on it and go to step 5
   2. If you don't see one:
      1. Click "New..."
      2. select "Folder" enter an ID of "sidebar" and click "Add"
      3. Enter a Title which will appear at the top of the sidebar menu and click "Change and View"
      4. Click "Publish" in the "Editing Tools" box
      5. Click "Publish this item"
      6. Ignore the annoying Site Error if you get it (just hit Back)
      7. Click on "Folder contents" in the "Editing Tools" box.
5. Now you are ready to add an item to the sidebar menu, so click "New..."
6. Select "Favorite" enter an ID such as "item_1" and click "Add"
7. Enter a Title which will appear as the link in the menu and click "Change & Edit"
8. Enter a URL which is the ID of the page the menu item will take the user and click "Change". Since this should be a page in the same section of the site, just enter the ID (file name) of that page and do not include any slashes or the www.seattleyachtclub.org part, just the file name.
9. Click "Publish" in the "Editing Tools" box.
10. Click "Publish this item"
11. Click on "Folder contents" in the "Editing Tools" box
12. Go back to step 5 to add additional items (using item_2, item_3, etc. for the ID) until you are done.

How to add additional sidebar menus

You can add more sidebar menus by creating Folders inside of the sidebar folder. These folders work just like the main sidebar folder, except that they may have any ID. All folders inside of the "sidebar" folder wil result in additional sidebar menus.