Menu Components
A Menu is a search mechanism. It searches for published Content that matches its search criteria. The search criteria are profiles comprising Site Areas, Templates, Categories and Keywords.
Content that has a profile that matches the criteria are listed as links in the Menu. In most cases, a Menu is a list of hyperlinks that displays on a web page. When you click a hyperlink, the associated Content displays. If a Menu called News Items searches for:
In this example, only Content that matches the specified Site Area, Authoring Template and Category will be displayed as hyperlinks in the Menu.
- Site Area = Publications.
- Authoring Template = News.
- Category = Latest.
Menus also give you very flexible formatting options. You can display links as images, icons with text, links with a summary or many other combinations. The set of content that match the criteria may then be sorted by name, description, effective date, and last modified date. The results may be paged, with a specified number of results per page.
The Menu Component uses a component design to format each of the resulting content results. The component design is a Rich Text Component that uses XML tags to extract values from each content result.
Note that Menus do not have to be displayed as links. They can be used to display content that will change depending on the Menu's search parameters and the current page context.
Parent topic: Component Types.
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