Advanced layouts - Section Article Content

In this article you will get an introduction to use the Section engine, and we will focus on using the section type 'Article Content'.

An article is basicly layoutet in two columns (on desktop screens):

  • Left - Description: Content under the Author tab is printed here.
  • Center - The main content flow

In most cases - an article can be build utilizing the basic inputs: 

  • Title,
  • Hero Banner,
  • Lead
  • Body
  • and References

But the PIM CMS offers you a variety of possibilities to enhance your content using sections.

A section is a contained piece of content, and it can be edited directly in the flow of your content, by clicking the edit-button next to each section. It can also be edited through the normal edit interface, and here you can drag and drop the order of your sections. Sections can be enabled or disabled at any time, allowing you to change your content instantly.

In contrast to the normal 'body' field, sections can use up the entire space - and are themselves divided into a left- and a right side. 

Here you will learn the possibilities of the section-type Article Content (learn how to use the slidedeck section here).

- how to use the sections engine

Every Article Content section have some general settings. It can have an overline, and either hide or display its title. All sections in this article have their overline hidden, and display the title as 'Large section headline'.

The Article Content section type have a left and a right column, that can hold content.

The left-hand-side can hold 

  • Text
  • Image

The right-hand-side can hold

  • Text
  • Image
  • Video
  • Table
  • Collapsible node

Each Article Content section can use any combination of left-hand-side content and right-hand-side content - to layout the content in any way that is needed.

The left hand side content - type text.

The text / text combination gives you the opportunity to add a descriptive text to the left, and the main content to the right.

An image can have a descriptive text

This section has an Image in the left-hand-side and text in the right-hand-side.

In this section the text is placed in the left-hand-side, and an image in the right-hand-side

When using the video content type, you can embed videos from either YouTube or Vimeo

Used as a Q & A, this section allows you to refer to specific nodes, and make them collapsible.

Table