Often there is a need to break content into a series of pages – whether it be a slide show or a step-by-step tutorial. StudioLine can automatically generate links between the pages in a folder and to an index or start page.
The automated folder link features relies on a number of components:
An optional index page that contains thumbnails or text links to the pages in a sub-folder.
A folder, which will hold a series of pages.
An optional layout template that contains common navigation buttons and other design elements.
Generic navigation links, allowing visitors to browse between the pages inside the folder and back to the index page.
Folder settings that control the sequence in which pages are displayed.
The individual pages inside the folder.
Open the StudioLine Explorer for Pages. Create a new folder.
Switch to Layout Editor and design a page layout. Add common navigation buttons and generic links (e.g., to the first page, the previous page, the next page, the index page, the site’s home page).
For a self-running presentation choose Automatic Forward from the Page menu and set the navigation link to “next page”.
Save the Layout as a Layout Template.
Change the Site Settings to use your new Layout Template as the default for the new pages. Note the original Layout Template you had been using.
Open the File menu.
Create as many additional pages as you need inside the new folder you had created. Each page will inherit the same generic links from the layout template.
Reset the Site Settings to the original Layout Template you were using.
Optionally, create a special index page or use any existing page. This page could link to all pages, some of the pages, or only to the page you want to appear first. A page can serve as the index page for several folders.
In StudioLine Explorer, click the right mouse button over the new folder. Choose “Folder Navigation Links ” from the folder’s context menu.
To exclude pages from the automatic folder links, place them in a different folder, in a sub-folder or use the “Exclude Current Page” option in the “Publish” menu. The index page is automatically exluded.
If an object contains a folder link, one can easily switch to the first page.
Select the object.
Either choose Follow Link from the Navigation menu, or open the object’s context menu with the right mouse button and choose Follow Link.
From a page within the series, use the Navigation menu to switch to other pages.