{"id":472,"date":"2015-06-25T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T14:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/t4\/?p=472"},"modified":"2024-07-09T12:17:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T11:17:43","slug":"linking-a-tab-to-another-section-or-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/t4\/2015\/06\/25\/linking-a-tab-to-another-section-or-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Linking a Tab to another Section or Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you add a new Section to a site in T4 it automatically creates an item in the navigation or sidebar. Sometimes though, you want an item to appear in these areas that links to a different section in the site (such as back to the homepage) or to a different webpage.<\/p>\n

To do this you go to Add Section<\/strong> (as though you were going to add a new page) but instead of adding content, make it a Link Section.<\/p>\n

Adding a link to the Home Page.<\/h2>\n

Name the section “Home”, then click on “Make this a Link Section” – at which point a tab called “Details” will appear.<\/p>\n

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Then select the “Section” radio button followed by “Select” to choose the section you’re linking the homepage of your site.<\/p>\n

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You’ll then see the “Home” section in your site, at the bottom of the section list. To re-order the tabs see this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Adding a link to an External Website.<\/h2>\n

To add a link to an external website, create\u00a0a\u00a0section in the appropriate part of your site and give it a name as described above. Click on “Make this a Link Section<\/p>\n

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Select “External URL” then enter the address into the Link URL field and click Add.<\/p>\n

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And you’re done. It will appear as a Section icon with an arrow in it that will appear in the navigation or sidebar, and when clicked on will link to an external section.<\/p>\n

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Note that there is some bad practice here:<\/strong> people don’t expect to be take out of a site by its own navigation, so you may wish to consider instead creating a page describing\u00a0the external resource and its relevance to your site and linking to it from\u00a0within that page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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