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See To add child sections to a text, you need to have first created a root node. For more information, see the Understand the Structure of Texts guide.
- Open your text
- Find the section of text for which you want to create a child
- Note: click on the section title in "Contents" to navigate to that section
- Note: see the glossary definition of Child Node
- Click on the plus sign
- This plus sign is located under the section title
The "Create Book page" window will open
- Type the new section's title in the "Title" field
- Type the new section's content in the "Content" box
- To add metadata to the section, click Metadata:
- Note: typically metadata should only be used for the root node of a text
The "Metadata" page will open
- Add authors, publication years, descriptions, and search terms if necessary
- Click Book outline
- Book outline is located on the left sidebar
The "Book outline" page will open
- Verify "Book" and "Parent item"
- "Book" should be the title of the text to which the new section belongs
- "Parent item" should be the section you chose in step 2
- Note: see the glossary definition of Parent node
- Click on the "Weight" drop-down menu
"Weight" options will expand
- Choose the importance of your section relative to sibling sections
- Note: sections with higher weights will be listed first
- Note: see the glossary definition of Sibling Node
- Click Save
The window will close
Your section will be added to the parent page
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