Issue with multiple levels of nested pages

how are the nested expands being created?
does that match the nested expand example in the documentation?

I create them using short codes like this:

[expand title=”Access Slack”][insert page=’access-slack’ display=’content’][/expand]

Yes, it matches the example in the documentation:

[expand title=”trigger text”]hidden content[/expand]

The problem is just when you get them nested within each other on different pages.

I actually just did a test with this:

[expand title=”something”][expand title=”something_else”]wow[/expand][/expand]

and that doesn’t work as expected either. So it seems like nesting one expand within another is not supported?

Please read carefully the part of the documentation entitled Nested Expand Elements.

[expand title="Root Level"]
   [expandsub1 title="Nested Level 1"]
      Ta-Da
   [/expandsub1]
[/expand]

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by twinpictures.

Thanks so much – sorry I missed that in the documentation.

I suppose the only drawback for me on this is that I don’t always know what sub level a page will be at – it can be included on many levels. It would be nice if it were more abstract instead of being a number 1-30. But actually, I just tried

[expandsub25 title=”Root Level”]
[expandsub20 title=”Nested Level 1″]
Ta-Da
[/expandsub20]
[/expandsub25]

and even that works, so i guess the order of the numbers don’t matter, as long as they don’t conflict, so I think I can make this work.

thanks again.

correct, the numbers just need to be unique.

Yeah, so this doesn’t work since I have the same number:

[expandsub25 title=”Root Level”]
[expandsub20 title=”Nested Level 1″]
[expandsub25 title=”Nested Level 2″]
Ta-Da
[/expandsub25]
[/expandsub20]
[/expandsub25]

So I think rather than being limited to 1-30, it would be nice if I could just put any string I want in there so I don’t have to think about the numbers. I am not sure how hard that would be to change from a predictable number to strings that the user defines.

[expandsubRoot title=”Root Level”]
[expandsubFirstLevel title=”First Level″]
[expandsubSecondLevel title=”Second Level″]
Ta-Da
[/expandsubSecondLevel]
[/expandsubFirstLevel]
[/expandsubRoot]

without this, I just have to remember on each page to assign a number and make sure they don’t overlap.

In any case, thanks again.

One other thing. While this is working for me if I do the examples above, when I try to actually use it in conjuction with insert page, it doesn’t work.

So if I have a page like this:

access-slack:

1. [expandsub19 title=”Set Up Slack”][insert page=’set-up-slack’ display=’content’][/expandsub19] if you haven’t already
2. Open the Slack application on your computer
3. Be sure to have selected the right group

and then I have another page that includes that page:

work-with-team:

[expandsub25 title=”Access Slack”][insert page=’access-slack’ display=’content’][/expandsub25]

It opens the outer one, but not the inner one. I am not sure if the insert page somehow interferes with the Javascript on this or what.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by mrn3.

as for ‘use any string’ this is a bit tricky, as the shortcodes would need to be defined in advanced. what you could consider is not using shortcodes, but rather the roll-your-own method of creating the expand elements.

regarding the issue you are having with some expand elements opening and some not, it would be helpful if you could share a link to the page, maybe there is a js error… maybe the shortcode was copy-pasted in visual mode and carried over some unwanted html… converted quotes to curly-quotes, etc.

Okay, thanks for your help. I agree with you that the use any string could be pretty tricky – I can work around that for now.

On my second issue, here is the example:

https://imediasalesteam.com/bake-a-cake/

I don’t see any JS errors in the console. Basically it looks like this:

Bake A Cake (grandparent):

[expandsub1 title=’Turn On The Oven’][insert page=’turn-on-the-oven’ display=’content’][/expandsub1]
Put the cake in
Pull the cake out

Turn On The Oven (parent):

[expandsub2 title=’Find The On Switch’][insert page=’find-the-on-switch’ display=’content’][/expandsub2]
Push the on switch
Make sure it turned on

Find The On Switch (child):

Put on your glasses
Feel around for the switch on the left

So the expand on the parent doesn’t seem to open the child.

I just added on the Turn On the Oven:

[expandsub2 title=’Find The On Switch’][insert page=’find-the-on-switch’ display=’content’][/expandsub2]
Push the on switch
Make sure it turned on
[expandsub3 title=’Trying A Last Option’]I think this should work[/expandsub3]

So this kind of indicates to me that it might be the insert page that doesn’t support nesting for some reason – thoughts on that?

Okay, I actually just realized that my problem wasn’t with Collapse-o-Matic – it was that Insert Pages doesn’t allow nesting by default because they worry you will have a circular loop of nested pages and get in an infinite loop. I disabled that check, and all is working now!

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/nested-inserts-possible/

Thanks so much!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by mrn3.