North Dakota State University

The CMS Sitemap content type enables you to create several kinds of automatic menu (link) lists. You are encouraged to use one of these automatic menus instead of manually maintaining a list of links using the RTE because the menu links are automatically accessible will not become broken links if a page is moved.

All menus in this page are outlined by blue dotted lines to help you find them.

To insert any of these menus

1. Insert a new content element
2. Choose Sitemap content type
3. On the General tab, choose the menu type you want to insert
4. In the Selected Pages selector, click the folder to select which pages should be included in the menu. Clicking the orange right arrow button to show sub-pages, then clicking the plus sign next to each page is the fastest way to select many pages at a time
5. Save and publish as usual

The most obvious type of Sitemap is Sitemap. This is the type of menu you might assume would appear when choosing "Sitemap" content type.

1. Insert a new content element
2. Choose Sitemap content type
3. On the General tab, enter a Header
4. From the Menu Type menu, choose Sitemap
5. In the Selected Pages selector, click the folder to select where the sitemap should begin. To show a hierarchical menu of all pages in your department, choose the department main page. You can also choose a different page, to show a partial department sitemap
6. Save and publish as usual

Example:

• Knowledge Base
• Tips
• User group
• FAQ
• Get help
• Index

A menu of subpages of selected pages is somewhat similar to a Sitemap menu type, except that only one level of pages below the selected page will be displayed.

To illustrate, if a department pagetree looks like the following, with nested pages

A comparison of Sitemap versus a Menu of subpages of selected pages looks like

Using the same pages selected for the Menu of selected pages, an example:

• All content types preview
• Content frames
• RTE (Rich Text Editor)

This is the same as a Menu of subpages except that the Abstract field from each page follows the page title.

Example:

All content types preview

Tries to exercise all of the types of content in CMS for review at once

Content frames

Wrappers for content elements

RTE (Rich Text Editor)

How to use the WYSIWYG editor in CMS

A menu of subpages of selected pages including sections is similar to a menu of selected pages, except that all sections in the page are also displayed. It is like a menu of selected pages combined with a section index for each page.

Example:

• All content types preview
  • Lorem ipsum dolor
  • Frame 1
  • Frame 2
  • Text
  • Frame 2 (copy 2)
  • Frame 2 (copy 3)
  • Lorie Line
  • Media content
  • Youtube video
  • Whole bunches of images
  • A table
  • Menu of these pages
  • Menu of subpages to these pages
  • Anchors in the page
  • Pages with abstracts
  • Recently updated
  • Related by keyword
  • Subpages with sections
  • Filelinks
  • Mailform that won't submit anything
• Content frames
  • What are content frames
  • How to apply a frame
  • Available styles
  • Overuse of content frames
• RTE (Rich Text Editor)
  • Visual helpers
  • Use hotkeys
  • Control line spacing
  • Advanced RTE options

A menu of selected pages enables you to create a list of links to a hand-picked collection of pages in your department. The pages do not need to be adjacent in the pagetree, so this is a very flexible type of menu.

Example:

• Content
• Menus and sitemaps
• Section index

The section index generally appears at the top of the page.

Additional details are provided.

An example of a section index appears at the top of this page.