The associated lists dialog

Associated lists cannot be managed through the editorial interface, the classic admin interface must be used. After logging on to the classic administrative and development interface (often /cs) locate the menu item document and select the “Document hierarchy” right click menu option. The document hierarchy dialog appears revealing the complete menu hierarchy where the menu item is a member.

The document hierarchy menu in Content Studio

Each associated list appears with their name and their association property in relation to the menu item. The site administrator or developer set these properties according to the requirements of the site.
There are four possible settings:

None

This effectively turns off the association

Only in list

New documents can be created in the list but will not be a child item to the menu item.

List and menu item

New documents can be created in the list and will appear as a new child item as well.

List and menu item - inherited

New documents can be created in the list and will appear as a new child item. The new document will also allow new documents to be as new child items and so on.

The Associated lists dialog and options

Adding a new associated list

To add a new associated list to the selected menu item just press the "New..." button. A new dialog appears that contains all lists of Ept documents – remember that only list of Ept-documents can be associated with at menu item. The dialog groups the lists after their given grouping as shown in the illustration.

Adding a new Associated list to a menu item

Understanding the associated lists inheritance

One of the properties of the list association List and menu item - inherited indicates that new items created as child items in the list will allow new child document items to be created and this behaviour propagates to their child items and so on. However as soon as any list association is created on a child document item, the inheritance is broken allowing that menu item to define its own set of rules.

Permissions and rules for moving, connecting and disconnecting menu items

In order to be able to manipulate a menu structure from the editor interface the ordinary Content Studio permissions on the category, which is represented by the list, apply. In addition to this, rules specified by associated lists must comply as well. It is still possible to manipulate the menu structure from the classic administrative interface if associated list rules prevent you from doing that in the editor interface.

• Adding documents (creating or connecting an existing document)
  • The document cannot be a part of a hierarchy already
  • The editor must have create permission on the parent document.
  • The document must be part of a list associated with the menu document item being connected to.
  • The association property must allow the parent document to create child documents.
• Disconnecting documents
  • The editor must have delete permission on parent document.
  • The document must be part of a list associated with the parent document.
  • The association property must allow the parent document to create child documents. This rule exists to prevent the editor disconnect a document by mistake and not being able to reconnect it again.
• Moving a menu item within the menu structure
  • The editor must have delete permission on the current parent document and create permission on the target parent document.
  • The document must be part of a list associated with the menu document item.
  • The association property must allow the new parent document to create child documents.