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Sub Navigation

Sub Navigation example on Honors website

The Sub Navigation is the dropdown menu for main navigation links on a homepage, providing quick links to content on your site. The homepage can display 4-6 main navigation (website section) titles and include up to 15 sub navigation links per title.

If you want to provide web visitors an opportunity to have some quick links to content through out your website sub navigational items are useful. 

You will notice that in each of your website section directory folders is a file titled _sub-nav.pcf. To have sub navigations on each of your homepage's main navigation, you will need to edit each of these files separately and then visit the site's root folder and check out the  _props.pcf file to link to each sub navigational file you would like displayed. 

STEP 1: EDIT SUB NAVIGATION WITHIN WEBSITE SECTION

Sub Navigation in Website Section
Sub Navigation in File
  1. Within the folder of the section you want to edit, check out 鈥淿sub-nav.pcf鈥�. Then click on Properties.
    1. This will bring up the Page Parameters.
  2. Under "Custom Settings", select the number of links that you would like to display from the 鈥淣umber of Links鈥� drop down menu.
    1. Users can include up to 15 links per main navigation title.
  3. Complete the "Link Text" and "Link URL" fields for each item.
    1. Click the "Yes" box if you'd like your link to display in a new tab/window.
  4. Click Save.
  5. From the Publish drop down menu, select which action is appropriate for your permission level/workflow (Publish, Schedule, Submit for Approval, etc.).

STEP 2: EDIT SUB NAVIGATION WITHIN HOMEPAGE _PROPS.PCF FILE

Sub Navigation in Props
  1. Check out the "_props.pcf" file and go to Parameters.
  2. Scroll down to the "Main Navigation" section. Then use the Dependency Manager to locate the Sub Navigation link for each website section (main navigation title).
    1. Make sure the Sub Navigation file is in this format: "_sub-nav.html"
  3. Click Save.
  4. From the Publish drop down menu, select which action is appropriate for your permission level/workflow (Publish, Schedule, Submit for Approval, etc.).