Overview: The Side Bar allows two or more articles to appear at the same time when clicking to see the 'Full Story' of a particular article. For example, if there was an article in your newsletter about the "Top Ski's of 2002" and you would like to include a Sponsor Advertisement in a column to the right of the article, this would be accomplished through the use of a Side Bar.
A 'side bar' gets its name from the small articles you usually see in a magazine that are related to the main article on the page, but are not actually part of the article. These articles are usually offset to one side of the page and may have a border or change in background color to distinguish the side bar from the rest of the text on the page. The Side Bar function allows you to establish a similar concept within an online newsletter.
What it does: There are two factors that make a Side Bar work. The first is the designation of an article as a 'side bar' of another. This establishes a parent-child relationship between the main article and the side bar. The second factor is the Side Bar page element located on the Article Page template. This element is configured to automatically show any articles that are designated side bars of the currently selected article. This Side Bar element can be placed in any column and can be formatted differently than the Single Article element which displays the parent article. A single parent article can have multiple side bar articles.
How to find it: The side bar settings are found in two places. On the Article Entry screen you will find the Side Bar designation for each article. Here you select the article from the current issue that would be assigned as the parent article. On the element properties of the Multiple Article element you will find the second part of the side bar feature. This configures the layout element to display the side bar articles associated with a particular parent article or to automatically display the side bar articles based on the currently selected article.
Available to: Customers with Pro Plus accounts or higher.
