User Guide: Lists (similar to Beaver Promise)

Lists or FAQs or Accordions

The ‘click and see’ lists that are used for things such as the Beavers Promise and list of scout shops are sometimes known as FAQ lists, and technically they are accordion lists.

They are useful in that they hide unnecessary information, so users can see the headings and then click to open up the one they want. Click again and it closes.

Accordion lists are controlled by a category, e.g. Scout Shops.  Once the category is created, items can be added.  An item can appear in more than one accodion list (by adding more than one category to it).

Adding a New Accordion List

If you want to add a new accordion list to a page:

  1. Click on Accordion Lists on the dashboard
  2. Click on List Categories
  3. Enter the name of your new accordion list, e.g. Scout Shops
  4. Leave the slug field blank
  5. Leave the Parent List Category blank
  6. Enter in a description so everyone can see what the pupose of this list is
  7. Press the blue ‘Add New List Category’
  8. Click on Add new list (under Accordion Lists on the dashboard)
  9. In the Title box, enter the main heading. e.g. Daventry Scout Shop
  10. In the big white box, enter the infomation you wish the user to see when they click on the main heading
  11. Find the ‘List Categories’
  12. Select the one you created in steps 1-7 above.
  13. Press the blue ‘Publish’ button
  14. Repeat steps 8-13 for each main item you wish to appear in the accordion list.
  15. Once they are all entered, go to the page you want your new accordion to appear on
  16. Enter the following where scout-shops is the title you entered in step 10, all in lower case, amd with hyphens replacing any spaces
  17. Press the blue ‘Update’ button (marked ‘Publish’ if it is a new page).
  18. Click Preview to check it looks okay.

 

Changing an entry on an Existing Accordion list

  1. Click on Accordion Lists on the dashboard
  2. Click “All Lists”
  3. Scroll down to the one you would like to change
  4. Click ‘Edit (Classic Editor)’
  5. Overtype either the title or main entry (or both)
  6. Press the blue ‘Update’ button

 

Adding an entry to an Existing Accordion list

  1. Click on Accordion Lists on the dashboard
  2. Click on Add new list
  3. In the Title box, enter the main heading. e.g. Daventry Scout Shop
  4. In the big white box, enter the infomation you wish the user to see when they click on the main heading
  5. Find the ‘List Categories’
  6. Select the category you wish your new entry to appear under
  7. Click the blue ‘Publish’ button

 

Deleting an entry from an Existing Accordion list

  1. Click on Accordion Lists on the dashboard
  2. Click “All Lists”
  3. Scroll down to the one you would like to remove from an existing list
  4. Click ‘Delete’
  5. Confirm you wish to delete that item

 

If you delete an item in error, you will find it in the bin at the top of the All Lists page, from where you can restore it.