Sectional Navigation

What is sectional navigation?

If you look at the page tree to the right (expand it with the little arrow if it's hidden) you'll see that we've arranged content in the user guide in to a number of "sections".

This page is in the Navigation section, which is in the Builder 3.x section, and so on.

In spaces that are being used for websites, intranets, documentation and knowledge bases, etc., it makes sense to provide navigation that reflects the current section within the space: Sectional Navigation.

By using Sectional Navigation, you can not only reduce the amount of navigation on the screen but also provide navigation that is far more useful to the end-user.

Sectional Navigation Macros

There are a range of macros in Theme Builder that facilitate the creation of Sectional Navigation:

• builder-show macro and builder-hide macro - show and hide content based on a range of criteria
• with-page macro, with-ancestor macro, with-descendent macro and with-sibling macro - find specific pages and render content in the context of those pages
• list-pages macro, list-ancestors macro, list-descendants macro and list-siblings macro - find specific pages and render content in the context of them, or output a list of the pages

Examples

The following examples show how to create various types of Sectional Navigation:

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