Section Index

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You can use the Section Index UI Pattern to organize the content of a screen, enabling quick navigation within the page.

How to use the Section Index UI Pattern

In Service Studio, in the Toolbox, search for Section Index.

The Section Index widget is displayed.
From the Toolbox, drag the Section Index widget into the Main Content area of your application's screen.

In this example, we drag the Section Index widget into a column.
In the Toolbox, search for and drag the Section widget into the Main Content area of your application's screen. Add as many sections as you require for your app.

In this example, we drag 4 Section widgets into a column. Each section widget contains Title and Content placeholders.
Add the relevant content to Section widget's Title and Content placeholders.

In this example, we add employee names to the Title placeholders, and Card Sectioned widgets with some text and images to the Content placeholder.

A link is automatically created to every section you have on the screen. The name of the link is based on the text you entered in the Title placeholder of each section. In the following example, the links are set to the employee names we entered in step 2.
On the Properties tab, you can customize the Section Index's look and feel by setting any of the optional properties.

After following these steps and publishing the module, you can test the pattern in your app.

Properties

Property	Description
IsSmooth (Boolean): Optional	If True, the navigation to the destination is animated. This is the default. If False, the navigation is instant.
IsFixed (Text): Optional	If True, the Section Index Pattern is always in the same position on the screen. This is the default. If False, the Section Index Pattern scrolls with the page content.
TopPosition (Integer): Optional	Distance in pixels from the top of the page to the first item in the section index. The default value is 0.
ExtendedClass (Text): Optional	Add custom style classes to the Section Index UI Pattern. You define your custom style classes in your application using CSS. Examples Blank - No custom styles are added (default value). ''myclass'' - Adds the myclass style to the Section Index UI styles being applied. ''myclass1'' ''myclass2'' - Adds the myclass1 and myclass2 styles to the Section Index UI styles being applied.

Remember to use the Title placeholder in the Section Index pattern as this defines the text for each Section Index link.