5: Re: creating a new text and pictures page that appears in the navigation (response to 4)
Posted by BrynM on 21/04/23 11:31

Hi Joe

Having logged back in today, everything is working fine.

I had set the include in navigation but while I was previewing before publication the new page kept appearing ahead of the home page and even after publication it kept doing the same but today it is working as intended.

Is there a time gap between adding a new page to be included in the navigation and it starting to work as intended ?

All very frustrating but working now.

Thank for your help.

Regards

Bryn 

6: Re: creating a new text and pictures page that appears in the navigation (response to 5)
Posted by Joe Oldak on 21/04/23 13:49

There's a small delay from publishing a change before it appears to non-logged-in users, because the page is cached on the server - though it shouldn't be longer than about 30 seconds before the cache notices the change and stores a new version.

If you're logged in then pages aren't cached and you see all updates immediately.

I'm glad you got it working in the end!

Thanks

Joe

7: Re: creating a new text and pictures page that appears in the navigation (response to 5)
Posted by Joe Oldak on 21/04/23 13:58

Hi Bryn,

One gotcha here, which maybe is what caught you out, is that if you preview an unpublished page that is set to show in the navigation, you won't actually see it in the navigation!

This is because when you preview a page it uses the live version of the menu structure, ignoring unpublished changes.

So in this way, yes, it could look like the new page that you are previewing has "taken over" the homepage, because you won't see the new page appearing in the navigation.

This could be quite difficult to change on the server, as the code that generates the navigation doesn't know if you're previewing or viewing live content. I'll stick it on the to do list though and if I get some inspiration I'll update it!

Thanks

Joe