Alternate Link Titles for Pages in Automatically Generated Primary Navigation

If you have multiple organizational units on your site that all have the same basic set of pages (e.g., faculty and staff for the division; research in the division), your users should be able to easily figure out which organizational unit’s information is being addressed on each page. If multiple pages have the same page title (e.g., Faculty and Staff), that will be difficult if they are looking at a list of pages in a search result.

Each page should be unique. If there would otherwise be multiple pages called Faculty and Staff, incorporate the name of the organizational units into the page title — formal name or otherwise.

However, doing this can make the link titles rather long in the automatically generated primary navigation menu of your site.

You can manually define a different link title for this page when it is included in that automatically generated primary navigation menu by adding a value to the Menu Title field. This field is in the UAMS Page Attributes panel in the Settings sidebar on the page editor.

The text that you use for this field should still describe the content of this page, though it can rely on the added context of being on a branch of your site’s hierarchy.

For example, if the site is for the College of Medicine Department of ABC and there are branches the site’s hierarchy for each of that department’s divisions, with a page on each of those branches called Faculty and Staff in the Division of XYZ, the Menu Title field could be set to Faculty and Staff for each of those pages. The Faculty and Staff link would have the added context of being nested underneath a page called something like Division of XYZ.