Do you have important links you'd like to share with your members? Perhaps there are pages across your Higher Logic site, or external pages from your organization's web site, you want to promote. If so, the Quick Links widget enables you to make the content important to your organization easily accessible to your users.

How it works

Like most widgets, this one is added to a page via Page Designer. There are no parameters to configure there because the widget is fully managed on the "front end" of your site.

Each Quick Links widget has a management menu at the top. Click the ellipsis icon to edit or delete the widget's links.

NOTE: Refer to the Widget configuration section below to learn how to configure this widget and manage its content.

Widget configuration

Let's take a look at how to configure this widget.

Link options

* Required

Option	Description
Link title *	The hyperlinked title.
Link destination *	Where users are taken when they click the link. This can be a page code or a full, valid URL, including "https://" where appropriate. TIP: Check the Open in new window box to open the linked page in a new tab while preserving the current community page (recommended).
Icon	While not technically a required field, all links must have an icon. Click the Icon dropdown to select from a library of SVG icons. You can use the search field at the top to locate icons by name; this is recommended because there are so many icons. Also, a limited number of icons displays; click All Icons at the bottom right of the pop-up to view the full list. Use the Icon Color and Icon Background Color fields to customize the icon. When choosing a color, you can enter a hex code, RGB numbers, or use the gradient sliders to get the color you want. In addition, you can leverage the transparency slider to control the level of transparency.

TIP: The preview on the right updates in real time as you make changes, making it easy to check your work as you go.

Adding, removing, and rearranging links

Let's switch gears and focus on how to add links, organize them, and remove the ones you no longer need.

You can add as many links as you need, though you should limit the total number to prevent the widget from being too large on the page.
Click + Add another link to add one; within a link section, click Remove link to delete it.
Click a link section to expand/collapse it.
You can also drag and drop each link's section to rearrange the links at any time.

Delete all widget content

While you can edit a Quick Links widget to make small adjustments, like updating a link title, link destination, or icon, you can also completely wipe all content at once.

In instances where you want to start from scratch, this enables you to do so with the click of a button rather than having to delete content line by line.

IMPORTANT: This action cannot be undone. Because content is stored directly in the widget, make sure you won't lose any important URLs you may not otherwise have easy access to.

To wipe all content from a Quick Links widget:

Click the widget's dropdown, followed by Delete.
In the confirmation popup, click Delete.

Add this widget

You can add this widget to any page across your site via Page Designer.

Navigate to the page you'd like to add the widget to.
In the Admin Toolbar, click (or right click for a new tab) Edit Page. You are now editing the page in Page Designer.

On the Build tab, scroll down to the Widget section and type "quick links" in the search field.
Drag and drop the Quick Links widget to where you want it on the canvas.

With the widget selected on the canvas, click the Properties tab.
Configure the properties as needed, paying special attention to Name or Title and View Permissions (to control who can view it).

TIP: Refer to Syndicate Content, below, for information on how to add a dedicated Quick Links widget to a Community Home page to showcase community-specific content.

Click Publish to save your changes and make the page live.

Syndicate Content option

By default, all communities share a single, syndicated Home page. However, the Syndicate Content option makes it possible for each Community Home page across your Higher Logic site to have its own ("standalone") Quick Links widget.

Each "standalone" Quick Links widget features content that is specific to that community, and Admins can set which links to include in the widget, per community.

EXAMPLE: You could have a "mentoring" quick link, but not a "volunteer" quick link, display in the widget on one Community Home page, and have the reverse in the widget on a different Community Home page.

Understand Syndicate Content settings

This section explains the distinction between the Yes and No settings.

WARNING: Existing content may be lost when switching this parameter value.

If the Syndicate Content toggle to set to:

Yes (the default) - All content in the widget, and any edits to it, will be shared across all Quick Links widgets on your Higher Logic site, as applicable.
No - This Quick Links widget is "standalone" and will display content that is unique to this community.
- This setting is unique to this instance of the Quick Links widget; it does not impact other Quick Links widgets across your site.

Set a widget as unique/standalone

To make a Quick Links widget unique to a Community:

In Page Designer, click the Edit icon of the Quick Links widget that you want to set as unique.

On the edit dialog, click the Syndicate Content toggle to set it to No.

Click Save.

This Quick Links widget and its content are now unique to this Community.

It is independent of — and is not affected by — any changes to the content in other Quick Links widgets.

Widget Spotlight - Quick Links