Adding Pages to your network

[Phil McCluskey]

The instructions for adding pages to your network have been moved into the wiki. You can find them here.

[Alva]

Hi Phil,

Thanks! A couple of questions...

1. Where do I start? To access my code I mean. On the "Manage" page, I don't see a link for Source Code.

2. On the new pages, will I be able to...
a) add videos
b) add jpg images for user download?

Sorry! I'm one of those non-tech people who launched a ning site... :-)

Thanks!
Alva
www.GraceAlley.com

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Alva,

To access your code, you'll need to create a url in your web browser like the one in the example above. You should be able to copy the second one:

http://www.ning.com/?view=apps&appUrl=mynetwork&op=edit

and replace mynetwork in it with the part of your network address that comes before ning.com.

The pages feature lets you create html pages. You can use them to provide additional content to your network members. You won't be able to add videos on a page, but you can embed video code from elsewhere into a page, and you can upload images in the same way you can with the forum toolbar. If you're not familiar with html, then I would recommend getting a friend who is to help you.

Thanks,
Phil

[Alva]

Hi Phil,

Thanks...I think I found the access now. For the "mynetwork" I was including the "ning.com" stuff as part of the url which wasn't necessary and caused my inability to access.

I'll give this a shot and see what I can come up with!

Thank you so much for all you offer at ning! Your entire team really understands "support" and you seem as passionate about helping us as we are about our sites!

~alva

[fitOlderMen]

Hi Phil,
great tip and feature. Just added a FAQs tab. Everything works fine.
Just one question.
A highly cosmetic issue - but I ask. Can I change the heading "All pages" to "All FAQs"?

thank you

George

[Alva]

Hi George,

If your asking about changing the name of your new tab, I think I made the change in this part of the code:

instead of:
Pages

change "Pages" to read
FAQs

[Alva]

Okay, weird, I can't include the code. If you know html at all, if you read through the code you used to add the new tab, you can change "Pages" to read "FAQs"

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi George,

Alva is correct, you can change the value in the title tags in the configuration to alter the tab name:

<title>FAQ</title>

Alva,

Currently the editor eats angle brackets; if you want them to display you need to use the html entity equivalents: &lt; and &gt;

Thanks,
Phil

[Chris]

Hey Phil,

Is there a way to change the order of the tabs?

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Shout,

No, there isn't an easy way to do that right now. If you have access to your networks code it can be done, or if you know some javascript you can change it during the page load, but this may result in things jumping around.

Thanks,
Phil

[fitOlderMen]

Hi Phil, hi Alva

well - I DID changed the tab - that was easy and straight forward and is already mostly what I want. No - I am talking about the headline that appears on the page when you click (in my case) on "FAQs"

Then it says "All pages" on the overview page itself.
Semantically its correct and would not confuse anybody - but hey. "All FAQs" would be nicer :-)

BTW - I tried to change the displayName to "FAQs"
"< displayName > FAQs < /displayName >
(the extra spaces are only to get it displayed in this post)
but that did not do anything. Where does this value show up?

Thanks for responding

george

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi George,

If you only plan to use one pages instance on a single tab, then you can use the language editor (Manage -> Language Editor) to change these values. If you want multiple tabs then this will change the language on all of them, which might not be appropriate. It's worth pointing out that if you create a single page then the contents of that page are shown automatically when you click on the tab, and the language around pages is only shown to administrator.

Thanks,
Phil

[Sudeep]

Hi Phil!!
I want to add multiple tabs in my main page, how will I do that ??