Hiding Menu Links by Using Child Pages
Channel: Stanford University Libraries Digital Library Systems & Services
Date: 25/05/2018

Short video describing how to hide main menu links by assigning feature pages as child pages of other pages in a Spotlight @ Stanford exhibit.

TRANSCRIPT:
If you have created a fairly large number of feature pages for your exhibit, the list of pages under the Curated Features main menu item may get unwieldy. You can make navigation for your users easier by decreasing the number of items listed in this drop-down menu. You can do this by designating some of your feature pages as “children” of other feature pages. 

To create a hierarchy of parent and child pages, navigate to your dashboard and select “Feature Pages” from the Curation sub-menu. Under Custom Pages, you’ll see all your feature pages listed in the order in which they appear in the main menu drop-down list. 

To designate a page as the child of another page, click and hold on the three stacked lines to the left of the page you’d like to designate as the child. Drag this page immediately below the page you’d like to designate as the parent and release the mouse. Here, I’ve moved the page “Cathy” underneath the page “Service Team.” To now make this page a child page, click the three stacked lines next to “Cathy” again and drag the page horizontally to the right until you see the outline of the box shift right, then release the mouse. “Cathy” is now a child page of “Service Team.” This can be done in a single step, as I have done here for the rest of the people on the list.

You can then repeat these steps to make all of the locations child pages under “Stanford Libraries.”

Remember to always click “Save changes” at the bottom of the screen to save all of your work. 

You should now see that the drop-down menu for Curated Features shows only the parent pages. When you navigate to one of these pages you’ll see that links to the full list of feature pages are displayed on the left-hand side of the page. Don’t forget that these parent pages will need content.