Site map management

Ametys ODF allows you to insert your training offer into a more complete site, containing different pages. These pages are managed via the sitemap, detailed here.

1. Presentation
2. Create a new page
   1. Contents
   2. Page location
3. Page types
4. Find, locate a page
5. Know your page'sURL
6. Moving a page
7. Rename a page
8. Root of the training offer

Presentation

The tool Site map tool is displayed when you open CMS. If it is not displayed, you can open it by clicking on the Site Map button in the Home. This tool provides a tree-like representation of all site pages.

Create a new page

Contents

Before starting to create a page, you must have defined :

• the page's position in the sitemap
• page title (the title determines the page'surl )
• have thought about the page's future content
  
  

This information will have an impact on SEO, on the position of the page and its content in the search results of Google and other search engines.

Try to make all your pages accessible within 3 clicks, so as not to frustrate the visitor. According to the three-click rule, your maximum overall depth should therefore be three.

Page location

Each page takes its place in the site map (page tree).
To create a new page, follow these instructions:

1. Open the Sitemap tool ( Home tab)
2. Select the page under which you wish to add your page
3. Click on the New page (tab Page) 
   
   
   
   This opens a dialog box.

   Choose a short title for your page, and click on the Finish button to confirm :

   
   

   The short title you enter is used for navigation (menus, breadcrumb trail, etc.) and also to determine the page'surl . For example, if you name a page "Training offer", its access URL will be"http://[site_url]/en/[..]/offre-de-formation.html"
   You may also enter a long title, which will only be used on the page itself. If it is empty, the short title will be used.
   

   You can always rename the page later.

4. Your page is now created. It is automatically opened in the central tool.

Page types

There are three types of pages ( Page tab):

• Blank page : a blank page is empty and will not be displayed on the site. It is only a page container. A link to this type of page will redirect to its first daughter page. This is the default type.
• Template page: a template page is used to insert content and/or services. This is the most commonly used type of page. A template defines different zones, into which one or more content and/or services can be added.
• Redirect page: this page is used to redirect to another page. The destination page can be an external page (http://....) or an internal page (a page managed by CMS).

The page type can be changed during the life of the page.

Find, locate a page

To find a page, open the site map (tab Hometab, button Site map) and unfold the pages leading to it (to unfold pages, click on the"+" in front of them).

The path indicated in the address corresponds to the location of the page in the site map.

In the "Site map" tool, a filter allows you to find a page very quickly. Enter a part of the page title to display all pages containing that part of the title.
Use the eraser to clear the filter and display the entire site map.

Know your page'sURL

As page addresses are readable, the path indicated in the address corresponds to the location of the page in the site map.

If you want to know the exactURL of your page, you must :

• Open your page from the sitemap
• Place your cursor on the tab in the page that has opened in the central area:

Moving a page

To move a page, you need to use the "drag and drop" technique (for Internet culture, wikipedia gives a definition of drag and drop).

To perform this operation inODF, click on the page; while holding the click, move the page to the desired location. An icon is displayed to describe where the page will be inserted. Then simply release the click to move the page to the desired location.

Modifications are directly reflected online once the page has been moved (reorganization of sections, update of page address, etc.).

Defining the various icons :

Illustration of "Drag & Drop" in the site map
	Addition of a "Page to move" page under the "Training" page.
	Addition of the "Page to be moved" page between the "Training by fields" and "Training by diplomas" pages.
	Addition of the "Page to be moved" page as the 1st daughter page of the "Formations" page.
	Addition of the "Page to be moved" page as the last child page of the "Formations" page.
	Page cannot be moved "Page to be moved".

Moving a page modifies its address (access path), unless it is merely reordered, i.e. its parent page remains the same.

All "internal" links pointing to this page will be automatically modified (no dead links).

On the other hand, external links will no longer find the page (users who have bookmarked the page, links from search engines, etc.).

To overcome this problem, you need to create an alias for the page (the old address should redirect to the new address). This operation is strongly recommended for your site's most important pages and/or those with the highest traffic.

Rename a page

Select the page to be renamed in the sitemap, then in the "Page" tab, click on the "Rename page" button. A pop-up window appears:

This makes it possible to :

• Modify pageURL : when this box is checked, the page address is modified, and the new title is used to compose the page address.

• Automatically create an alias: this box is activated when the "Modify pageURL " box is checked. When this box is checked, an alias is automatically added so that a web surfer who has added this page to favorites can find the new page that has just changed address (the favorite is automatically updated). This also enables pages listed in a search engine to maintain their positioning and inform the search engine to update its index. The URL redirection user manual is available on this wiki.
  
  

As a general rule, it's advisable to check the boxes "Modify theURL of the page" and "Automatically create an alias". This operation is not necessary if you're on a test server, as the page is not yet known to the general public or to search engines (Google, Bing, etc.), so there's no need to add a redirect.

Changes are directly reflected online once the page has been renamed.

It sometimes happens that a page address ends with "-2" or "-3" or ... This means that when the page was created, a page with the same name existed. If the original page no longer exists and you wish to obtain the address without the "-2", then simply rename the page and request a change toURL.

Root of the training offer

To publish the training offer on your site, you need to define the page that will carry the tree structure of the training offer on the site. This page is called"ODF Root".

To define this page, select the page in the "Site map" tool, then click on "ODF Root " in the Page tab.

In the example below, the "Browse catalog" page is the root of the training offer (press the "ODF root" button). All its sub-pages make up the training offer. This is a "virtual" tree structure, as the pages are not "physical", but automatically calculated from existing training courses.

Within a single site, a single page can be the "root of the training offer".