UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls

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Left Side Navigation

  • The links listed in the left column of pages on the website is called the "navigation."
  • Pages appear automatically based on setting on the web page within a subsite or child subsite it resides in.
  • The name of a link that appears in the navigation is generated by the title of the page.

Adding/Removing from Navigation

To add or remove a page from navigation you must

  • Go to the page in authoring mode
  • On the top left toolbar select Properties -> Custom Properties
  • Using the Add to Navigation checkbox, check or uncheck based the desired effect.
  • To activate the change choose the action menu > then clear and update cache
  •  Next chose Actions > Refresh navigation/prefooter

Change the name of the link

  • Go to the page in authoring mode
  • On the top left toolbar select Properties -> Standard Properties
  • Change the page title
  • To activate the change choose the action menu > then clear and update cache
  •  Next chose Actions > Refresh navigation/prefooter

Change the order that links appear

  • Go to the page in authoring mode
  • On the top left toolbar select Properties -> Custom Properties
  • Change the "Navigation Priority" number higher of lower depending on the relative order you wish for the page to appear in. (If all of the pages are at 50, the page titles will appear in alphabetical order. If navigation is set to 40 it will appear above all pages that have a number higher than that.)  

Navigation Dropdown Menu ( "+" sign)

In some subsites you may notice dropdowns in the navigation denoted by a "+" symbol. Beneath that are the links to other pages. These are created automatically based on the pages that reside a subsite nested within the current subsite. The link that hosts the plus sign is the page name of the INDEX page of the child subsite.

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