How would they know what page number to go to? Are you going to make all those pages and name them numerically? If so, you could try using the Password Protected URL Action (Password Protected URL - ActionsForge) to fake this. The way that it works is it takes whatever you enter into the field, adds .html to the end of it, and tries to load that page with JavaScript. I fear that this has some usability concerns, though. If they type in something besides one of the page numbers, they’ll just get an error (404) because the page won’t be there.
There is a Navigation Action built into Freeway which can generate a drop-down list of pages and auto-navigate to them when the user changes the picker. That has a tremendous advantage over the password hack, because there’s no way to input a “wrong” page. It only lists the ones that exist.
Now if you have been looking at pages generated by a CMS (content management system), those often have long lists broken into multiple pages based on some parameters in the database. So then you would see a little widget like this below the list:
<previous 1 2 (3) 4 5 next>
with the current page highlighted, and a nice user experience.
You can do something almost like that with the Link to Page Action (Link to Page - ActionsForge) which can create Next and Previous links in a folder of your document. That way you can give “paged” content without having to manually maintain all those links from page to page.
The major down-side to this Action is that it forces every page where you have used it to re-publish every time you publish or upload the site, in order to make sure that those URLs are still accurate. (It uses the order in which you have dragged your pages in the left-hand column in Freeway to determine what “next” and “previous” mean, and you dragging those around in Freeway does not “dirty” them and therefore require republishing, so the Action forces the issue. It’s a pain, but there’s no way around it.)
Walter
On Jan 24, 2015, at 4:36 PM, stephanie email@hidden wrote:
Hi
I’ve seen a website where they used text input fields to navigate through the website. I can’t figure out how they did that or what action in Freeway could get me something similar. I would like to be able to setup a text box/input field have the viewer input a page number and then hit enter to go to that page.
I figure I would need to assign web pages a number and then setup a form so that it knows what page to load, but I cant see any options under forms that would allow this.
Thanks for any help/advice!
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