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21 Dec 2011, 4:11 PM
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Information and More Information Sidebox

I am wondering if I am missing something here? If I want control over links that display in a sidebox, I have to install the absolute links sidebox. By doing so I can turn on and off the links I want to display in that sidebox.

With that being said what is the purpose of the sideboxes/information.php and sideboxes/more_information.php sideboxes? If you could turn on and off the pages in the sidebox via EZ pages then they would be useful. Since I cannot control the way these display via the admin control panel what is the use of them?

I must be misssing something here. I don't understand why the core file comes with two sideboxes that don't have control via the admin control panel yet I have to install a module to be able to add any links to a sidebox.

Am I missing an important step here?

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21 Dec 2011, 4:17 PM
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Re: Information and More Information Sidebox

What I do is DISABLE the information AND more information sideboxes, and then use the EZ-Pages sidebox for all my page links.

See post #6 in the following thread:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124402

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21 Dec 2011, 4:28 PM
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Re: Information and More Information Sidebox

I do the same as schoolboy, but the Information box links can be turned on and off in Admin - Configuration - Define Page Status.

21 Dec 2011, 4:37 PM
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Re: Information and More Information Sidebox

So basically all I needed to do this whole time was to use the EZ-Pages side boxes. That makes sense.

If I want to change the title of my EZ-Pages side box from: "Important Links" to "Information" which file would I edit?

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21 Dec 2011, 4:40 PM
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Re: Information and More Information Sidebox

I got it, this was also listed in the other thread. Thank both of you!

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