Using Shipherd in the Admin =========================== The navigation mechanism is fairly complex; unfortunately, there's no real way around that - without a lot of equally complex code that you are quite welcome to write and contribute! ;-) For this guide, we'll assume that you have the setup described in :doc:`getting-started`. We'll be adding a main :class:`.Navigation` to the root :class:`.Node` and making it display as part of the :class:`.Template`. Creating the Navigation +++++++++++++++++++++++ Start off by adding a new :class:`.Navigation` instance with :attr:`~.Navigation.node` set to the good ole' ``root`` node and :attr:`~.Navigation.key` set to ``main``. The default :attr:`~.Navigation.depth` of 3 is fine. Now open up that first inline :class:`.NavigationItem`. Make the text ``Hello World`` and set the target :class:`.Node` to, again, ``root``. (Of course, this is a special case. If we had another node that we wanted to point to, we would choose that.) Press save and you've created your first navigation. Displaying the Navigation +++++++++++++++++++++++++ All you need to do now is show the navigation in the template! This is quite easy, using the :ttag:`~philo.contrib.shipherd.templatetags.shipherd.recursenavigation` templatetag. For now we'll keep it simple. Adjust the "Hello World Template" to look like this:: {% container page_title %} {% container page_body as content %} {% if content %}

{{ content }}

{% endif %}

The time is {% now %}.

Now have a look at the page - your navigation is there! Linking to google +++++++++++++++++ Edit the ``main`` :class:`.Navigation` again to add another :class:`.NavigationItem`. This time give it the :attr:`~.NavigationItem.text` ``Google`` and set the :attr:`~.TargetURLModel.url_or_subpath` field to ``http://google.com``. A navigation item will show up on the Hello World page that points to ``google.com``! Granted, your navigation probably shouldn't do that, because confusing navigation is confusing; the point is that it is possible to provide navigation to arbitrary URLs. :attr:`~.TargetURLModel.url_or_subpath` can also be used in conjuction with a :class:`.Node` to link to a subpath beyond that :class:`.Node`'s url.