Accordion Tool login

(You will need to submit a ticket to request access to the Accordion Tool.)

An accordion is a collapsing block. It toggles between hiding and showing large amounts of content. Digital Strategies now has a convenient tool to create an accordion for your website. You will need to submit a ticket to request access to this system.

Creating new accordions

• Submit a ticket to request a new accordion. This can be done when you request access to the system

• Once an accordion has been created, you can create and edit items

Create and edit accordion items

• Click the Home button in the left column to see your accordions

• Click on the title of your accordion

• To add a new accordion item, click the green Add New Item button

• Headline – this is the title for the item
  Content – what appears when users click on the item headline
  Ranking – where the item will appear in the list
  Active – controls visibility for the item
  Mark as NEW – adds a “New” label to the item

Editing an accordion item

• Click the item title

• Click edit

• Click Update item when you are done editing

About Ranking

When you log into the accordion tool you will see numbers beside the item headlines.

This is the rank and it determines what order the items appear. By default, a rank value is automatically assigned to new items. These are incremented by 5s to allow you to easily rearrange items later. You can manually specify a rank value by editing an item.

Changing item order

To change the item order you will need to change the rank. Items rank lowest to highest so values closest to one are higher in the list.
To move an item up or down

• Click the item title

• Click Edit

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• Click the Ranking dropdown. Select a lower number if you want your item to appear higher in the list.

• Click update item

Draft items (item visibility)

Items set to draft status are not visible in the live accordion. All items are set to active status by default when they are created. When an items active status is set to N, or the item is deleted from the list, the item is put into draft status and is inaccessible to users.
Deleted items – “Deleted” accordion items are not deleted, they are set to draft status. This is so you can recover items later if needed.
Set an item to draft or active status

• Click the Edit button on the accordion item

• To deactivate an item – set Active to N

• To set an item back to Active, select Y

• Click Update item when you are done editing

• You can also click the Delete button to set an item to inactive. You will be asked to confirm that you want to set your item to draft status.

• You will find the draft items in the Draft tab of your accordion

• Items in draft status will have the draft tag

Deactivate an entire accordion

To deactivate an accordion, click the Deactivate this accordion button

Copy an accordion item to another accordion

If you have several accordions, you may want to copy items from one accordion to another.
To copy an item from one accordion to another:

• Click the item title to show the edit buttons.

• Click Copy to another accordion

• Select the accordion you want to add to from the dropdown.

Add your accordion to a web page

Someone in Digital Strategies can help embed this onto your web page. Submit a ticket to get help!

• Open a ticket with Web Communications

• Include the following information in your ticket:

  1. That you would like add an accordion to a web page.

  2. The web page URL where the accordion will be embedded.