Developers Toolkit

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Developers Toolkit is the section of the website you come to to make larger changes to your Union site. It's used to add / remove content as well as drafting / publishing content, restructuring the pages, navigation and more.

Pages (Tree View)

A sample segment of the tree for a testing site, and below what it matches up with on the front end.
View showing the front end that matches up with the tree above.

First things first, every Union will have a slightly different looking Tree View, that's because this is related to your site and it's structure.

To give a brief overview of how this works, I'll try to describe it as best I can.

  • We think of the Tree View page, similar to an empty box, or a blank canvas, that is your website.
  • You then need to add content to this box / canvas.
  • Everything that you add that is not a sub-page, or a sub section, (so when you're setting it up, it doesn't have a parent) is treated as the top level of your website.
  • Everything has to have a container.

The example to the right hand side, shows the first segment on a tree view for a test Union Cloud site, and below it, shows how that matches up on the Front End. the simplest way to look at it, is to think about Sections, as lots of different types / shapes / sizes of container, and think of Pages / Links / Widgets as content you can put in those containers. All content must have a container though.

Structuring Content

Since Release 25 the Developers Toolkit has been updated and will now no longer allow you to implement impossible or irrelevant combinations of sections and content. The table below should explain which items you are able to implement in which order.

- Section(c) Page(c) Link(c) Widget(c) Subsite(c)
No Section (Tab Container)(p) Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Slider(p) Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Column(p) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Grid(p) Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Stripe(p) Yes Yes Yes No Yes
List(p) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Menu(p) Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Hamburger(p) Yes Yes Yes No Yes
- - - - - -
Page(p) Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Link(p) No Yes Yes No Yes
Widget(p) No No No No No
Subsite(p) No No No No Yes

Settings

On the right-hand side of each item in your tree view you will see a cog Cog.png icon. Clicking on this will give you the option to:

  • Add Section
  • Add Page
  • Add Link
  • Add Widget
  • Add Subsite
  • Edit
  • Mark as Favourite
  • Copy Element
  • Preview

Adding a Section

Adding a Page

View Permissions
Versions
Edit Permissions

Adding a Link

Adding a Widget

Adding a Subsite

Copy Elements

Search Pages

Search Pages View in Developers Toolkit


In the Developers Toolkit, click on the Search Pages tab to view an exhaustive liat of all the elements which are on your site, see screenshot to the right. This list is searchable by clicking on the filter icon in the top right corner of the list. The information which is shown about each element in the list includes: Page Type, Title, URL, Created At, Updated At and Status. Hovering over the Cog.png icon will give you the option to edit Edit.png that particular element.



Favourites

Favourites Page in Developers Toolkit

Clicking on the Favourites tab in the Developers Toolkit section will take you to a list of all pages that you have marked as favourites. This is useful for marking pages which need to be edited frequently, giving you quick and easy access without trying to look for them/search on the Pages Tree View or Search Pages. Similarly to Search Pages this list can be searched by clicking the filter and the information which is displayed about each element includes: Page Type, Title, URL, Created At, Updated At and Status. Hovering over the Cog.png icon wil give you the option to edit Edit.png or remove from Favourites.

Appearance

Appearance Page - Manage Themes

The Appearance Page under Developers Toolkit is avaliable to Unions who have the Advanced Developers Toolkit. The Manage Themes Page, which can be seen to the right, shows the UnionCloud standard theme and any others themes that have been added to your site. If you would like to add a new theme please contact the Zendesk.

The other two tabs in this section are Global CSS and Global JAVASCRIPT, which will allow users with technical knowlegde to edit the code of the site.

Others

You may have noticed that we skipped over Articles, Resources and Images, that's because they are just more links to move back to those sections, rather that directly changing content.