I still cant see your menu example. Are you sure there isnt any more missing from your post? I don't understand the relationship between DIVs and your menus.
For your second question, I'm assuming you have something like this:
- Site 1
-- Page 1
-- Sub Page 1
-- Page 2
-- Sub Page 2
- Site 2
-- Page 1
-- Sub Page 1
-- Page 2
-- Sub Page 2
And you want to remove Sub Page 1 from Site 1 but keep it in Site 2?? Or are you trying to remove Page 1 from Site 1 and keep it in Site 2?
There may be some confusion about what linking actually is. The pages dont exist in any place in particular. If a page is linked in two sites, it exists in both sites. Its not part of Site 1 and linked into Site 2 - it just exists in both.
If you delete the Page 1 from Site 1, you only remove that single link - there is still a link between Page 1 and Site 2. If you delete Sub Page 1 from under Page 1, you are removing that link between the two pages. Because Sub Page 1 is not linked under any other asset, it is gone from both sites because it is actually being removed from Page 1.
I understand all links are equal, however once one is made (whatever level) how can I separate one linked asset from it's twin to be individual assets?
It seems silly to have a function such as 'link' without a way to undo it or break it apart… ? So there must be a way…
If you use the example structure I posted above, Page 1 and Sub Page 1 are two different page assets. They are linked together to create a menu structure.
You can break the link between Page 1 and Sub Page 1 by either moving Sub Page 1 to the trash (if you no longer want that page) or moving Sub Page 1 to under a new parent (Page 2 for example).
If I'm totally off-track here, can you post a structure example so I can see what you have and what you want to have.
In Greg's example, if you move Sub Page 1 to the Trash, it will disappear from both sites. This is because it has the same parent, and therefore only a single link. You could remove Page 1 from one of the sites, as it has two parents and therefore two links.
However, you could suppress one of the subpage links using the Linking screen. This is possibly a suitable work-around for your requirements. In Greg's example:
- Site 1
-- Page 1
-- Sub Page 1 - TYPE1 Link
-- Page 2
-- Sub Page 2
- Site 2
-- Page 1
-- Sub Page 1 - TYPE2 Link
-- Page 2
-- Sub Page 2
On the Linking screen of Sub Page 1, you could set one of the links to TYPE1 (i.e. make it visible in the automatically generated menu structure) while changing the other link to TYPE2, which would remove the page from the menu structure. It will still be linked to Page 1 in both sites, but not visible in the menu of site 2.
Actually, the link between Page 1 and Sub Page 1 is the same no matter which site it is in. In my example, Page 1 is the same asset in both sites, so the link between it and it's ub page is the same link ID. So you cant actually hide that link from the menu in one site and show it in the other.
What you would need is to have different assets representing Page 1 in the two sites and sharing DIVs for content reuse. Then you would link Sub Page 1 to one of those assets and not link it to the other.
Basically, if you want to share content at the page level, you also have to share all the sub pages. If you only want content to be shared, do it at the DIV level.
so basically to do what I need to do (have some differring content at the div level) I need to Clone each page individually that is required for each site and then Link the Div's I want linked and not the ones I don't…
If you are sharing Page 1 between your 2 sites, then you also share all the sub pages of Page 1 (and any new sub pages).
It sounds like you dont really want to share Page 1 between your two sites, you want to share the content of that page. In this case, create a new page in Site 2 and share the content (DIVs) between the two pages. You will get something like this:
- Site 1
-- Page 1
-- #Bodycopy 1
-- #DIV 1
-- Sub Page 1
- Site 2
-- Page 3
-- #Bodycopy 3
-- #DIV 1
The #'s represent TYPE2 links (not shown in menu)
Notice here how Page 1 and Page 3 share the same DIV (DIV 1 in this case). The DIV contains the content and can be shared (just link it like you do any other asset in the asset map).
Now Page 1 and Page 3 will have the same content. When you edit the contents of Page 1, you will also edit Page 3 because you are actually editing the DIV when you edit the contents of a page.
What you are not sharing are things like sub pages, permissions, schemas, status, metadata etc. Of course, you can still apply the same schemas and permissions to these two pages if you want.
