What's the best way to....

**Morrus** · November 1, 2013

... group a bunch of pages together so it's easy to navigate between them?

Should I put them all in a book, or use categories, or a header or sideblock or somesuch?

(Here's an example of such a collection).

I mean, my ideal situation - which may not be possible - is to have a menu on the left or right to navigate to any of those pages. Those aren't the whole wiki, of course, they're just a corner of it.

**pegasus** · November 1, 2013

With some coding, you can create your own permanent sideblocks by creating classes in vault/core/model/block and vault/core/view/factory/block and by adding an appropriate entry to the database in the vw_block table.

If you aren't feeling that adventurous, you can create a sidebar block using BB-Code.

Code:

[div] position="sidebar" |
BB-Code content
[/div]

You would have to put this BB-Code on every page where you want your nav-block, so you should probably create a wiki template and include that on your pages. It will make it easier to manage.

**Morrus** · November 2, 2013

It sounds like the sidebar block BB Code version is the way to go. I'll give it a try! Though if that's going to appear on the page itself (rather than in an actual sidebar) won't that clash messily with the automatic page table of contents?

**pegasus** · November 2, 2013

It will appear in the sidebar. If you use position="sidebar" as above.

**Morrus** · November 2, 2013

Oh, I see! That's clever!

**Morrus** · November 3, 2013

OK, I don't quite understand how to do this.

I created a template in the Templates area called "13thagemenu":

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showwik...es:13thagemenu

I then inserted the text "[template]13thagemenu[/template] on a page:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showwik...haracter-Rules

And it showed the "[div] position="sidebar" |" code without parsing it and didn't put it in a sidebar.

**pegasus** · November 3, 2013

Go to VaultWiki Admin Panel > Content > Syntax Manager, and make sure that the DIV BB-Code is enabled in wiki pages. Also, double-check your template area and make sure that BB-Code is allowed.