Section 'Layout' Tab

The grid in the 'Layout' tab of a section contains the following prompts:

Prompt

Description

Layout Selector / Variable

Site

Overall Page Layout

Select the overall layout template for this section page.

For more details about overall page layouts go to Editing An Overall Page Layout Within Actinic.

SectionLayout

Section

Section Link Layout

Select the layout for the link into this section, and for the links into any sub sections within this section.

SectionLink

Top Sub Section List Layout

If you want a list of sub sections to appear above the products on this section page, set this to 'Standard Sub Section List'.

If you don't want this, select 'No Layout' or 'Use Parent ()'

SubSectionListTop

Bottom Sub Section List Layout

If you want a list of sub sections to appear below the products on this section page, set this to 'Standard Sub Section List'.

If you don't want this, select 'No Layout' or 'Use Parent ()'

SubSectionListBottom

Main Product Area Layout

Select a general layout for the main section page bulk area

MainArea

Column Count for Sections

Select how many columns you want section links in this section to be laid out in.

SectionLinkColumnCount

Column Count for First Row of Section Lists

Select how many columns you want section links in this section to be laid out in.

SectionLinkFirstRowColumnCount

Product

Product Layout

Select the default layout for products within this section.

Product Layout

Column Count for Products

Select how many columns you want products in this section to be laid out in.

ProductColumnCount

Price Layout

Select the default layout for the prices of the products in this section

PriceLayout

Product List Layout

Do you want your products laid out in a standard HTML table, or do you just want them in a 'Bare' list? You can also insert 'horizontal' dividers between each product.

ProductList

Attribute

Attribute Layout

Select the default layout for the attributes within this section

AttributeLayout

Component

Component Layout

Select the default layout for the components within this section

ComponentLayout

See Use Parent for an explanation of 'Use Parent'.

If there are any tabs or settings here that are not detailed in this help file, it is because they are 'user-defined settings' that have been added to Actinic. For an explanation of user-defined settings, see Making Changes in Actinic.

Adding Layouts to the Grid

In order to make it possible to select a layout here, you need to ensure the 'Place of Setting' of the layout selector is set to 'Section'. For more details see Editing Layout Selectors.