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Linking to custom pages... Boxes
By pog , Section Help! []
Posted on Tue Oct 15, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
Can anyone shed some light on how to make links to some pages i want to create within scoop? Basically, i want to make a series of pages in a custom category (eg, 'products'). Then i want to link to them from button images. Are the pages made as templates? And how is the path to the pages created? Any comments appreciated!

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by panner on Wed Oct 16, 2002 at 04:41:41 PM PST

If you just want some more-or-less static pages, create them as Special Pages (look under the Admin Tools menu). The ID is how it will be referred to in the URL, the description is a note to yourself about what the page is for, and the Title and Content are what they say.

After you've made and saved the page, it's available as /special/id/, assuming your scoop site is in the root directory. Otherwise, it would be %%rootdir%%/special/id/, such as /scoop/special/id/.

Also, for something a little more advanced, you could make /products/ an alias for /special/, so that you can use the URL /products/foo/ and get the foo special page. To do this, go to the blocks admin tool and open the op_aliases block (under block_programs on recent versions of Scoop). Put a comma at the end of the last line (if it doesn't already have one), then add a new line of products=special. Save the block, and you should be able to refer to them as /products/id/.

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Keith Smiley



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