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Understanding Autonav

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Hi,

I just started today with Concrete5 (6.0.2) and I like it, though I don't understand Autonav. I have two pages in my Sitemap:

Home
|
--Test

I want Autonav to only display 'Test'. If I chose second level, the Navigation is empty. If I choose 'Beneath a particular page' and then select Home, it shows both, on the same level.

Why is Sitemap showing me a hierarchical structure that I can't use in Autonav?

I would be very grateful for enlightenment.

Thank you very much
Sven

P.S.: I apologize, if this should come up often, but I couldn't find something on this with the search.
 
mesuva replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
mesuva
The home page in the sitemap is sort of a special case. It's not really a level of it's own, it's simply the root of the site/tree.

Since it's pretty common to have the home page on the navigation, it's included as the first item in the top level of navigation items, even though technically it's one level above.

For the cases where I don't want home to appear on a nav, I normally hide it with css, but you should be able to hide it with a custom attribute:
- Visit the home page
- Hover over Edit and click Properties
- Click on Custom Attributes
- From the left hand side select Exclude from Nav, check it and hit save.
opitzs replied on at Permalink Reply
Thank you for your reply, mesova!
This makes sense now. I've hidden the page like you described and I am happy!

Thank you
Sven