New pages are always created with a parent page already specified. However, sometimes a web page needs to appear in more than one section of the site, and thus needs to have more than one parent page. A page can be assigned to another parent page (or section) by linking the pages together.

In the example diagrammed below, imagine that you want to take page A (which is a sub-page of page C) and also make it a sub-page of page B.

1) Make sure that both pages A and B are visible in the Site Explorer.

2) Do link:

Microsoft IE on PC users: drag-and-drop the Page A's icon onto Page B's icon, moving the cursor to the lower right side of the Page B icon until you see an arrowhead pointing in that direction.  Finish the drag operation by releasing the mouse button.  For Microsoft IE on a PC, A 180K video of this selection process can be viewed for in draganddrop.avi.

Firefox on PC users: Select Page A by clicking on its icon; then move the mouse over page B's icon, press and hold "Ctrl", and move the mouse until you see an arrowhead pointing in the lower right side of Page B's icon.  Finish the drag operation by clicking the mouse button while the red arrow is showing in Page B's icon.

Firefox on Mac users: as with PC Firefox users, except you use the "alt/option" key instead of "Ctrl" key. 

Selecting the page to link

Selecting the new parent page

A popup confirmation form will appear that asks if you really want to link one page to the other.  A video of this confirmation is here: draganddropconfirm.avi (500K).
 

In the confirmation form, Page A appears below Page B, and is indented, indicating that it will be a sub-page of Page B. Clicking on "Link" completes the operation, and closes the popup window.  If you set the "move" checkbox before the Link button, then the page will be disconnected from the parent you dragged it from, and will then be connected to the new parent.

Linking operations can be performed that involve linking several pages to a parent page.  Because of this, a checkbox is included by each item (e.g. by Page A above) so that you can confirm some link operations but not others.

When the confirmation window disappears, usually the Explore tab is automatically updated to reflect the change you have made.  If it doesn't, you will need to manually close and open the parent item of any page or section you have changed.  The diagram below and this 170K video illustrate this.  If you are viewing the Context tab as you do a related drag and drop operation, then click on the Context tab again to see the changes.

Closing and Opening an Explore tab item  to see changes

Note that opening and closing an Explore tab item - or using your browser's "refresh" function to refresh the Explore tab - deselects any items you selected for your most recent drag and drop operation.  Without an Explore tab refresh of some kind, the dragged items from the last operation remain in a selected state so that you can perform other drag and drop operations with them.  If you continue to do drag and drop operations, you may want to refresh the Explore tab to clear existing selections, or just deselect the items you don't want in a new operation. 

In Presto 2.2 the explore menu also provides a "Deselect" button option at top of menu which will deselect all items in the menu.

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