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Creating and customizing the URL and Page Title of a Directory

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How you create and customize the URL and Page Title of a Soapbox Directories page is determined by the version of the

Soapbox administrator your site has: Soapbox Lightning, Soapbox Engage Classic, or Soapbox CMS Classic.

I have the Soapbox Lightning Administrator with...
  • Contextual menu with App Launcher waffle to the left of the navigation
  • White and blue color scheme with penguin avatar in upper right
  • Directories Pages module in the left column of the home page
  • Soapbox Engage User Account module at the top of the right column of the home page

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I have the Soapbox Engage Classic Administrator with... I have the Soapbox CMS Classic Administrator with...
  • Main menu with no drop down options
  • Directories link in the main menu
  • Directories Pages module in the left column of the home page
  • Soapbox Engage User Account module at the top of the right column of the home page
  • Main menu with many drop down options
  • Menu link in the main menu
  • Icons for managing content in the left column of the home page
  • Getting Help with Your Soapbox Site module at the top of the right column of the home page

For Soapbox sites using the Soapbox Lightning administrator:

To customize the URL and Page Title of a Soapbox Directories page within the Soapbox Engage Lightning administrator:

  1. Go to the Directories Pages module on the home page of the administrator
  2. Locate the Soapbox Directories page you wish to view in the Directories Pages module
  3. Click Customize URL
  4. In the popup, enter a custom URL you wish to use. This should be web-safe, containing no spaces or characters no suitable for inclusion in a URL.
  5. For Page Title, enter the text you wish to appear in the page title bar of the visitor's browser and in search engine results
  6. For Enable Search Form, select whether you wish to show a search form to the front end user or hide the search form and display results of the admin-defined query
  7. For Enable Show/Hide, select whether you wish the visitor to be able to click a button to expand the search form when viewing the results. This is relevant if you have set the Search form to visible.
  8. For Enable Default Results, select whether you wish default results to be displayed when a visitor first loads the Directories page
  9. Click Save

If the Directories page is not shown in the Directories Pages module on the home page:

  1. Click View All in the module --OR-- click the App Launcher icon followed by the Directories icon in the popup and then the Form Manager icon in the following view
  2. In the Directories Manager, click the Directories form you wish to update
  3. On the Basics tab next to URL, click Customize URL
  4. In the popup, enter a custom url you wish to use. This should be web-safe, containing no spaces or characters no suitable for inclusion in a URL
  5. For Page Title, enter the text you wish to appear in the page title bar of the visitor's browser and in search engine result
  6. For Enable Search Form, select whether you wish to show a search form to the front end user or hide the search form and display results of the admin-defined query
  7. For Enable Show/Hide, select whether you wish the visitor to be able to click a button to expand the search form when viewing the results. This is relevant if you have set the Search form to visible.
  8. For Enable Default Results, select whether you wish default results to be displayed when a visitor first loads the Directories page
  9. Click Save

You may also manage the URL and Page Title of a Directory and all other pages of your site in the Menu Manager.

For Soapbox sites using the Soapbox Engage Classic Administrator:

To customize the URL and Page Title of a Soapbox Directories page within the Soapbox Engage Classic administrator:

  1. Go to the Directories Pages module on the home page of the administrator
  2. Locate the Soapbox Directories page you wish to view in the Directories Pages module
  3. Click Customize URL
  4. In the popup, enter a custom URL you wish to use. This should be web-safe, containing no spaces or characters no suitable for inclusion in a URL.
  5. For Page Title, enter the text you wish to appear in the page title bar of the visitor's browser and in search engine results
  6. For Enable Search Form, select whether you wish to show a search form to the front end user or hide the search form and display results of the admin-defined query
  7. For Enable Show/Hide, select whether you wish the visitor to be able to click a button to expand the search form when viewing the results. This is relevant if you have set the Search form to visible.
  8. For Enable Default Results, select whether you wish default results to be displayed when a visitor first loads the Directories page
  9. Click Save

If the Directories page is not shown in the Directories Pages module on the home page:

  1. Click View All in the module --OR-- click Directories in the main menu
  2. In the Directories Manager, click the Directories form you wish to update
  3. On the Basics tab next to URL, click Customize URL
  4. In the popup, enter a custom url you wish to use. This should be web-safe, containing no spaces or characters no suitable for inclusion in a URL
  5. For Page Title, enter the text you wish to appear in the page title bar of the visitor's browser and in search engine result
  6. For Enable Search Form, select whether you wish to show a search form to the front end user or hide the search form and display results of the admin-defined query
  7. For Enable Show/Hide, select whether you wish the visitor to be able to click a button to expand the search form when viewing the results. This is relevant if you have set the Search form to visible.
  8. For Enable Default Results, select whether you wish default results to be displayed when a visitor first loads the Directories page
  9. Click Save

For Soapbox sites using the Soapbox CMS Classic Administrator:

To customize the URL and Page Title of a Soapbox Directories page within the Soapbox CMS administrator:

  1. Mouse over Menus in the main menu
  2. In the drop down, click the menu in which you wish the Directories menu item to be placed
  3. Click New (+) icon in the upper right
  4. Under "Select Menu Item Type" choose "Directories > Directories Page"
  5. In the new screen, for Title, add the title that you would like for your new page
  6. For Alias:
    1. Leave this blank, if you wish Soapbox to automatically generate the alias using URL-safe characters based on the title you provide (e.g., "Search Now!" becomes "search-now"; or
    2. Enter your own alias using URL-safe characters
  7. For Parent Item, choose where you want the menu item to live
  8. For Published, choose Yes
  9. For Access Level, leave it as Public unless you want the page to only be available to logged in users (in which case you may want to make it a Registered or Special access level page)
  10. For On Click, Open In, leave it as "Parent Window With Browser Navigation"
  11. In the right column for Parameters (Basic) > Select Form, click Select
  12. In the Select popup, click the Directories form you wish to use for this menu item
  13. For Enable Search Form, select whether you wish to show a search form to the front end user or hide the search form and display results of the admin-defined query
  14. For Enable Show/Hide, select whether you wish the visitor to be able to click a button to expand the search form when viewing the results. This is relevant if you have set the Search form to visible.
  15. For Enable Default Results, select whether you wish default results to be displayed when a visitor first loads the Directories page
  16. Click Save
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