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The Book feature works well for things like instructions or other documents that have lots of sections within sections, like a book with chapters, and each chapter with pages.

To create a book, please first create the book page by navigating to using Content, then navigate to add content and lastly select Book page:

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Navigate to the Content tab

To add pages to your website, click the Content button. Make sure you're logged in for access to that tab.

You can sort your created pages using the filter button. To edit them, just select the edit button on the Content List page.

Example of Content List page:

Create a new Book page

The best way to start is to create a book page as a new item. From there, you may use the "Book Outline" on the right-hand-side to nest and order subsequent pages into that book.

See a sample.

This is a "Book" with multiple chapters inside. Each chapter is a Book page. Inside each chapter, can be sub-Book pages. Use the right-hand "Book outline" menu to assign book pages to the correct chapter.

Book landing - this automatically shares any chapters already assigned to the book

A book is made up of Chapters, and a Chapter is made up of pages. All of these are handled as "Book Pages". To create a new book, first create a Book Page, and assign it as a book, similar to: blind.iowa.gov/iowacode (this is a book page that is a Book)

A Book page may be "promoted" up to being a chapter heading, or it can be "demoted" to being a regular Book page. Hierarchy may be determined using the "Outline" tab, or on the right-hand sidebar "Book outline."

Using the Book Outline

Each page in the book can be either:

A whole new book: Like starting a fresh story.
A new chapter: Like a new part of the same story.
A sub-chapter title: Like a mini heading within a chapter.
A regular page: Like any other page inside a chapter, sub-chapter, or even the new book you started.

All the pages in a book are connected by field in the sidebar called a "Book Outline."

The pages in the outline are put in order, just like a list. Pages with lower numbers come first, like they're floating at the top, and pages with higher numbers come last, like they're sinking to the bottom.

Book Feature 1 - Create a new Book Title

After creating the Book page in the right-hand-sidebar, that Book-related page now exists within your website.

From here you may then create additional book page and then reorganize those pages using the book outline field.

At the end the book will have chapters, optional sub-chapters, and pages

Rearrange Book Pages

For Book pages, because each individual book page exists as its own page, you are able to reorganize the placement of an individual book page, for example:

Changing an individual book page to be a new Chapter.
Moving a Chapter heading page to be a regular book page.
Changing an individual Book page to be a new Book entirely, which will then have its own chapters and pages.

Rearrange the Book page order

You can move any book page around, up or down, in your list.

It's okay to make all your Book pages first, then put them in order later.

You don't need to make the pages in order. You can use the "Book outline" to arrange them and make them subchapters if you want. But remember, it's best to keep things simple with a maximum of three levels: Book -> Chapters (optional Sub-chapters) -> Pages.

Each content type stands alone; only the "Book outline" forms hierarchy. Book content types can be Full Chapters, Sub-Chapters, or regular pages. Creating content types sequentially and organizing them into hierarchy is easiest.

Book Feature 4: Dealing with the Book Outline

The Book Outline may be managed from a book content type's individual "Outline" tab -OR- from the book content type edit screen on the right-hand-sidebar

Change the parent of any individual book node

Because book content types get assigned hierarchy, you may promote or demote any individual book page to be "higher" i.e. as a new chapter, or "lower" i.e. as a page inside a chapter.

You can change the order of the chapters in your book. Just use the "Book Outline" section on the side of the page where you edit the book.

The Book Outline may be managed from a book content type's individual "Outline" tab -OR- from the book content type edit screen on the right-hand-sidebar

You can drag and drop chapters to reorder them in your book. Just go to the structure tab, then books, and click the "edit order and titles" button. After that, you can start dragging and dropping the pages.