Structured page

Structured pages are similar to Basic pages, but are designed for long content that needs to be split up into sections or steps. The majority of general content pages on a site will be either a basic page or structured pages.

Step 1

In the administration menu, go to Content > Add content > Structured page.

Step 2

The edit screen displays.

1. Title - The page title.
2. Introduction - Displays above the structured content paragraphs.

   

3. View mode selector - Determines how the structured content fields will display.
   
   Tabs view
   Each paragraph is a separate tab. Recommend 2-4 tabs maximum.

   

   
   Accordion view
   Each paragraph is a separate accordion toggle. All are collapsed by default, and only one is active at a time.

   

   
   Step by step view
   Each paragraph becomes a step in a process and behaves like a separate page. Index of steps is listed at the top of the page, and previous/next buttons display at the bottom.

   

   
   Table of contents view
   Each paragraph is displayed one below the other. A jump list to each paragraph displays at the top of the page.

   

4. Structured Content - Add a new paragraph for each section of content to be displayed using one of the view modes.

Each structured content paragraph contains a Title and Body field.

5. Teaser image - Optional. Displays in card and teaser views.
6. Hero image - Optional. Replaces the default page header with a hero banner header.

8. Aside - Optional. Used for content that is tangentially related to the main page content, such reminders or contact details.

The Aside field displays.

9. Related content - Optional. Allows other pages on the site to be referenced in a short list. The relationship is manually created, not inferred from any data such as tags. Click Add new paragraph to create a related content group.

The Related content fields display.

Title - Optional. Heading to label the related pages. e.g. "Associated research", or "See also"

Related content - Reference to other pages on the site. Type the first few letters of a page title to look-up the desired page. Multiple related pages can be added.

10. Tags - Click the dropdown arrow to select a tag from the list of vocabularies and their terms to categorise the content.

11. Menu settings  - Tick provide a menu link to display the menu settings options. Adding a page to the menu ensures it will appear in the site map.

Enter the menu settings fields.

Menu link title – The menu link title is automatically populated from the page title. The menu link title can be edited.

Description – Content entered in the description field will be displayed when hovering the cursor over the menu link.

Parent item – Selection of a parent item ensures improved website navigation by displaying a breadcrumb trail at the top of the page.

Weight – Select a weight to determine the order of the menu link in the Parent Item. Menu links with smaller weights are displayed before links with larger weights.

12. URL path settings – a friendly URL is generated automatically if the tick box remains ticked.

13. Revision information – if 'create new revision' remains ticked, a new version of the structured page is saved each time. The versions are accessible from the revisions tab.

14. Authoring information - The information of the author is recorded. After the structured page is saved, the "authored on field" is updated.

15. Publishing options – Click the tab Publishing options to finalise the publishing settings.
    To publish – The published field is automatically ticked. Keep it tick to publish
     To create a draft – untick published to save as a draft.

16. Save - Click Save to update the structured page.