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Cleaning up table of contents and navigation in RoadTest Reviews

cstanton
cstanton over 1 year ago

Hello,

We've realised that there's some duplication with tables of contents, particularly when it comes to RoadTest Reviews, and with our new Project Articles ( Ho-Ho-Hold on a minute, is that a blog? A new way to submit your project! ).

Verint, as a platform, has a way of inserting 'tables of contents' like this:

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But there are problems with its formatting and how it works. For RoadTest Reviews as an example, we have an automatic generation of a table of contents which can look like this:

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This helps to separate the content from the contents list when listing the content on Google, sharing on social media, etc. So we use this method in RoadTest Reviews and Project Articles.

Because we have this, it means that it's a duplicate of the 'insert table of contents' and you can end up with a heading of "table of contents" in this new list, and it becomes a bit cumbersome and confusing, it doesn't make sense to have both. 

So ultimately, we won't.

For Project Articles and RoadTest Reviews we're removing the ability to insert the table of contents from the menu.

Instead? Use headings, marked with the <hx> tags, where 'x' is a number. A lot of members already do this, but I realised we haven't actually pointed this out anywhere.

You can find heading formatting under the Format menu:

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These menus should always be visible when using the Community from a laptop or desktop, maybe even a tablet. It may not always be visible when using a mobile device.

Thanks for reading!

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 1 year ago +1
    Hi Christopher, Will this mean the text are is narrowed? Is there a way to regain the text area by (say) having the left-side ToC being collapsible automatically? This will be a big issue with especially…
  • Gough Lui
    Gough Lui over 1 year ago in reply to shabaz +1
    Yeah, I've also previously expressed my dislike of the sidebar ToC because it takes up space and mucks up printability of the article. I manually trudge though the inspector and delete the div when reading…
  • cstanton
    cstanton over 1 year ago in reply to Gough Lui +1
    Gough Lui said: I've also previously expressed my dislike of the sidebar ToC because it takes up space and mucks up printability of the article I've raised a support ticket about that, so it should be…
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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 1 year ago

    Hi Christopher,

    Will this mean the text are is narrowed?

    Is there a way to regain the text area by (say) having the left-side ToC being collapsible automatically?

    This will be a big issue with especially long articles, which will be hard to navigate long slim page content if the user doesn't create very well named (and very well organized) subject headings.

    Secondly, has it been tested what happens on content where the user does not have any headings? Will the text area expand to fill the gap, or will it remain narrow? I think to keep some flexibility, the text area should fill the gap if there are no headings.

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    Gough Lui over 1 year ago in reply to shabaz

    Yeah, I've also previously expressed my dislike of the sidebar ToC because it takes up space and mucks up printability of the article. I manually trudge though the inspector and delete the div when reading to make myself happy ...

    - Gough

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    cstanton over 1 year ago in reply to Gough Lui
    Gough Lui said:
    I've also previously expressed my dislike of the sidebar ToC because it takes up space and mucks up printability of the article

    I've raised a support ticket about that, so it should be worked on.

    shabaz said:
    Is there a way to regain the text area by (say) having the left-side ToC being collapsible automatically?

    It does collapse in mobile view, I thought I had raised a support ticket about it to behave similarly on desktop. I'll have to check up on that, thanks for the reminder.

    shabaz said:
    Secondly, has it been tested what happens on content where the user does not have any headings?

    From what I've seen it simply doesn't populate with links and remains. Not ideal.

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  • cstanton
    cstanton over 1 year ago in reply to Gough Lui
    Gough Lui said:
    I've also previously expressed my dislike of the sidebar ToC because it takes up space and mucks up printability of the article

    I've raised a support ticket about that, so it should be worked on.

    shabaz said:
    Is there a way to regain the text area by (say) having the left-side ToC being collapsible automatically?

    It does collapse in mobile view, I thought I had raised a support ticket about it to behave similarly on desktop. I'll have to check up on that, thanks for the reminder.

    shabaz said:
    Secondly, has it been tested what happens on content where the user does not have any headings?

    From what I've seen it simply doesn't populate with links and remains. Not ideal.

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