Vae Guide

List View

The list view displays all entries in a collection in a tabular list:

All structures that have the Show in List View? attribute set will be displayed in the table. Additionally, any Child Collections or Reverse Associations on the Collection will have a link displayed in the table that allows you to navigate to that child collection or reverse association.

At the right of the table are links to Publish/Unpublish, Edit, and Delete each entry:

Navigating to Child Collections

In the following picture, Mammals and Reptiles are both Child Collections of Animals. Clicking on either will open the List View for the Child Collection.

The tab navigation bar at the top will expand to show the current child collection as the selected tab, and the selected entry from the parent collection as its own tab. Clicking the selected entry from the parent Collection will take you directly to its Edit View.

If there is no link for a Child Collection, this is because the collection has the Hidden? attribute set.

Publishing and Unpublishing Entries

At the right of every entry in the list, there is a green or red dot. This represents the publishing status of that entry. If the dot is green, it means that the entry is published and live on the website. If the dot is red, it means that the entry is not published and will not be seen on the website:

You may toggle an entry between published and unpublished by clicking the dot. New entries are always published by default. Note that unpublishing an entry completely removes it from the website and unavailable to VaeML. This also means that you will no longer be able to access it through the the PHP API.

Unpublishing an entry is useful if you want to temporarily remove a section from your website or get new pages ready for a launch. Unfortunately, pages that are not published cannot be previewed in any way. We are experimenting with different ways to address this situation for future versions of Vae.

Reordering Entries

If automatic sorting is not enabled for this collection, you can rearrange the entries into whatever order you'd like. Click the Reorder link at the top right corner of the list view. This will bring up the Drag to reorder page, which lists all entries in the collection:

On the reorder screen, you crag and drop the entries into the order that you would like and click the Done button to save your chosen order. Click the Cancel link to go back to the List View. If you do not click Done, the order will not be saved:

Only the title field for each entry is shown on the Drag to reorder page. This was done to avoid clutter on the reordering page. If you are not able to disambiguate your entries based on what is displayed, you should set a more specific title field for this collection. If there is no title field defined, and the collection includes an Image structure, the uploaded image from the first image structure will be displayed for each entry.

If the collection is a Nested Collection, the reorder page will render all entries in a tree view. Within the tree view, you may not only reorder within each level of the hierarchy, but also move entire branches of the tree to different levels. Working with the drag and drop tree control is a little tricky, but you should get the hang of it after a few tries.

If the Reorder link does not appear, it means that this collection is being sorted according to a sort field.