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How to add and manage Promotional items
Site managers can create Promotional items, sidebar features that can appear on any or all of your web pages. They can be used to display an identical sidebar item on multiple pages. This is helpful for promotion of events, for the repeated use of a Call to Action (CTA) button, or even for creating a miniature navigation pane on more complicated pages/archives. By default, a Promotional item will appear beneath any existing sidebar content on a given page.
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Create a Promotional item
From the Administration bar, select My Workbench.
Click on the Create/Manage Content tab.
Click on the Promotional item button.
Select Add Promotional item link.
Insert an appropriate heading for the item. You can choose to not have this heading display above the promotional item by clicking on the Do not display heading checkbox.
Add the desired Body content.
Set the Promotional item Visibility. This dictates on which pages the item will appear.
Visibility is dictated by inserting the URL paths of the specific pages on which the item should appear. See the notes on promotional item visibility below.If desired, enter a Randomization group.
Entering a Randomization group allows the promotional item to change
to a different item from that group every time the page is refreshed.
See the notes on Randomization groups below.If desired, check the Sticky at top of lists checkbox.
Checking this box will force this Promotional item to appear at the
very top of the sidebar no matter the existing content on the page.
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Visibility
If left blank, the Promotional item will appear on the sidebar of every page in the website.
To limit where the Promotional item will appear, first select the page you want it to appear on. Copy the URL path (after the domain name) for that page and paste it in to the Visibility text box. Paste as many URL paths as you would like in to the Visibility text box, one path per line.
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To put a promotional item on the home page, type in the following:
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<front> |
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Rearranging sticky and non-sticky Promotional items
To re-arrange Promotional items, go to My Workbench and click on Create/Manage Content. Select Promotional item. To rearrange non-sticky items click on Rearrange promotional non-sticky items. To rearrange sticky items, click on Rearrange promotional sticky items. Use cross arrows to arrange order of items and Save.
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Randomization groups
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If left blank, the Promotional item will behave as normal. |
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A Promotional item can be removed from a Randomization group and still be published on its own. Once removed from the group, the Promotional item will behave as normal and not change upon refreshing the page.
Selecting "Sticky at the top" for a given Promotional item within a Randomization group will affect where that particular Item appears on a page once the page is refreshed.
For example, if I place four Promotional items with the same visibility in one Randomization group, but make two of them Sticky at the top, the two set to sticky at the top will rotate between themselves upon refreshing the page. The two non "sticky" items appearing at the bottom will also cycle between themselves upon refreshing the page. The sticky at the top Promotional items would never appear at the bottom of the sidebar upon refresh and the Promotional items from the bottom would never appear at the top. Promotional items can only be replaced upon refreshing a page with another Promotional Item that shares its visibility and position on the sidebar of a page.
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Other site templates
Conference
The Promotional item content type is not available for this template.
Publication
Promotional items are optional, and if enabled, will appear on the sidebar of Web pages.
Promotional items cannot be promoted to the front page.
Promotional items can have an optional background image.
Single page
The Promotional item content type is not available for this template.