Show in Parent
Every collection has a "show in parent" attribute. This controls how the collection will appear in its parent collection's index.
Consider this example of a collection containing two photo albums:
When viewing the two photo albums they show a grid of the photos they contain like so:
But what about the collection that contains the two photo albums? What should that page look like? That is what the "show in parent" setting is for. You select how each of the photo albums is displayed in its parent collection.
So in this case, you could set the first photo album to display its most recent photo:
or a list of all the photos it contains:
To set what appears in a collection's parent:
- Select the collection in the Site Outline.
- Open the Page Inspector.
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Make your choice from the "Show in parent" popup button.
The choices are:
- Automatic
- The collection's thumbnail and text
- First item
- The first page in the collection
- Most recent item
- The page in the collection with the most recent date
- Item list: most recent first
- Lists all pages in the collection, the most recent first
- Item list: alphabetical
- Lists all pages in the collection in ascending alphabetical order.
When using either of the two "list" options, Sandvox limits the number of titles that can be shown to 5. You can change this in the hidden preferences if you wish.
