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What is the Explorer Station Action Bar?

The Explorer Station Action Bar places a secondary set of navigation menu items across the top of your website. These links can call attention to other offerings within your organization or external websites that may be of interest to your users. 

The action bar is meant to supplement the Explorer Menu or Explorer Menu Split Button components, not replace them.

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How to implement Explorer Station Action Bar

  • From the main Bento Administration dashboard, click Pages (Figure 1).

Figure 1

 

  • Click the Master page (Figure 2.1).

Add this custom component to your Master page if you want it to show up on every page of your website.

Figure 2

  • In the Action-Bar section of your page, click the Available Components dropdown menu and click Custom Component (Figure 3.1).
  • Click Add Component (Figure 3.2).

Figure 3

  • Click the component dropdown menu and click Explorer Station Action Bar (Figure 4).

Figure 4

  • In the link1_text textbox, type the text that represents the link the user will see. In the link1_url textbox, type the associated URL (Figure 6.1). Repeat for up to seven (7) links. You do not need to include all seven links, you can include anywhere from one to seven. 
  • Click Save (Figure 6.2).
  • Be sure to preface your links with http.  Correct: http://www.pbs.org  Incorrect: www.pbs.org
  • There is no character limit on the link_text, however, try to use minimal text so the menu does not wrap.

Links appear left to right across the top of your website.  link1_text and link1_url appear to the far left and link7_text and link7_url appear to the right.

Figure 5

  • Click Preview site in the upper right side of the screen to view the custom component in a browser (Figure 6).

Figure 6

  • Your Explorer Station Action Bar appears at the top of the page (Figure 7).

Figure 7