You're looking at the templates (within content classes) which are
just the structural 'building blocks' for actual end pages. If you
open up the 'Administer Project Structure' node, you're then looking
at instances ('pages') built from those templates. You might have a
very sparse tree if this has been created totally from scratch, so you
might need to do some initial setup - without knowing this, it's
difficult to give any further info.As soon as you have a 'page' created from your content class, you'll be able to expand it, select your anchor, and the options I previously referred to will then be visible in the action menu. - Bobby On Jan 21, 4:47 pm, fred2028 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, thanks for the prompt reply! > > How do I "connect" a page from SmartTree? I have a Content Class > called Homepage (used for homepage only) and I wish to to link to a > page called Benefits under a content class called "Non-Homepage". I > created an Anchor placeholder in the template for Homepage and went > > Administer Content Classes > Content Classes > Homepage > Structural > Elements > benefits_link (anchor) > > and in the Action Menu I do not see anything that represents connect > page. There are options in there like "Connect to Authorization > Package in Clipboard" but they do not work, even if I have the > Benefits page in the clipboard. > > A temporary fix I have was to make a link to Benefits with the text > editor in the CMS and then copy the href attribute, but I'd really > like to know how to do it with a placeholder so it's easier to manage > for my superiors. Thanks! > > On Jan 21, 11:36 am, bobbykjack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is RedDot 101 :-) > > > Once you've created a template with an Anchor placeholder, you can > > create instances of that template ('pages' in RD terminology). An > > instance will then allow you to edit the value for that specific > > Anchor. You can either 'connect' a page, if you want the link to > > target another 'page' in your RD project; you can reference a link/ > > page if you understand fully the side-effects of that action; you can > > directly assign a URL if you're linking to an external site. > > > That's all very easy to do in SmartTree view; for SmartEdit, you'll > > need to add RedDot 'editing' placeholders (i.e. the actual 'red > > dots'). > > > Finally, if you just want a permanent, static link in all 'pages' > > created using that template, you can just hardcode the href attribute > > directly in your template. > > > If anything's unclear, plese let me know - happy to help out further. > > > - Bobby > > > On Jan 21, 3:49 pm, fred2028 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > How does 1 achieve this using RedDot's Template Editor? I have > > > extensive HTML and CSS knowledge, so no problem there. Just when I > > > choose Anchor as the placeholder type, there is no option to choose > > > the page I want to link to, and same thing happens when I choose Info > > > as the placeholder type. Anyone have a step-by-step guide as to how to > > > get the URL of a certain page that I've created with RedDot so I can > > > make a hyperlink to it? Thanks! > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
