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The system manages the display of navigation links throughout the site, ensuring that if a page is moved, or renamed, all the links are automatically updated throughout the site. Why is this important?
Almost every site relies on arrays of links - navigation - to allow users to quickly move from page to page. These can range in sophistication from a simple list to multiple tiers of links. Whatever their appearance, the issues are the same.
neatComponents manages all this automatically. Whenever a page is added, moved, renamed, or deleted, the links are immediately updated in all pages, with no extra steps being needed to be taken at all. Whilst the tedious updating is taken care of by the system, you still have complete control over the appearance. You have a full set of styles that can be applied to the links, so they can appear as buttons, panels, or whatever, in any font, size or color. And by setting permissions on pages, you can ensure that different groups of users only see links to pages they are supposed to. (Of course the security model is more than it automatically hiding links to secure content - the pages themselves are inaccessible without the correct login even if the URL is known)
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