Friday, February 1, 2008

New feature: Override Section

The whole purpose of sections in Struturo is to simplify management of navigation elements. So if you want to change a navigator element for an entire section, all you do is modify one section definition document. Every page in that section would then have the change.

So recently, a customer wanted an individual image to display on individual pages in a section. But they still wanted the same layout for all the pages. So rather than create separate section definitions for each page, we added the capability to the page to override a particular section navigator.

When you click on the override section checkbox, the section defaults are already filled in for you. So it's easy to make a minor change specifically for that page, yet retain the power of the section definition control.

This new feature will be in version 1.60 coming out soon.