You can create what are known as “shortcut” or “alias” links.

You typically use these short links for marketing reasons or ease of communication, so that your customers don’t have to use the long URL where the page actually sits.

So for example http://wwf.panda.org/species is a shortcut for this page
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/.

Watch the tutorial

• Create a shortcut / alias

Step by Step

1. Go to the links section inside your CMS and look for the “alias” or “shortcut” label.
   https://pad.panda.org/content/alias.cfm
2. When you get there you’ll see on top right (very right end) a link that says “add new alias”. If you do not see the link, you will have to probably scroll to the right until it shows up.
3. Click on “add new alias”.
4. In the settings, add the name for your new shortcut. You can then enter the name you want, for example:
   species
5. Then specify which url should this shortcut point to. You can insert a full, normal URL from the site, or use the linkpicker.
6. Once you press the save button, the shortcut will be live immediately (no need to publish anything).

• Fix 404 pages

The “Form Builder” container is a tool that is used to create a Form, to send data from the user to a database or e-mail address through a page on your website. It is mostly used as a newsletter sign up form or a contact form, so that users can send a message to the owner or responsible person of the website.

With this tool you can add such a contact form, or any other type of information that you want to receive, and choose if you want to send the submitted data to a specific email address or a database saved in the CMS. If you are using Mailchimp and you want to have a form that connects to your account, you can use the Mailchimp container instead.

Watch the screencast:

• Using the Formbuilder Container

Or go through these steps:

1. Add your form

a) On your page, click on ‘add new container’ and select this type:

b) Select the options

• Store in Database or
• Send to an email Address

c) Select language

d) Apply Captcha image: this function requires the user to write a word or number into a field to check that it’s not spam.

e) Clone or copy the form builder from another form.

f) Define Post-Submission Settings: Choose the action you want to be done when a user submits the form.

• Refresh the page
• Show thank you message
• Redirect to internal page (Nav ID)
• Redirect to external page (URL)
• Post to external server

g) Click the ‘Save’ button.

2. Configure your form

a) For your first field (ex: Name), put the name on the first field.

b) Select position: above or left

c) If you want the user to read instructions, write them in the Field Instructions text field.

d) Select the type of field: Normal text field is standard.

e) Select the aditional options and click the ‘Add’ button.

f) Repeat these steps for each field you want to add. You can add Text fields, drop down menus, radio buttons, file uploads.

g) Your Form will be added to your page once you refresh it.

If you are using Mailchimp and you want to have a form that connects to your account, you can use the Mailchimp container instead.

Redirecting pages to any URL

Here is what you need to do:

1. Create the page normally
2. Create a new container
3. Select the “Special” container
4. Upload a HTML file that contains the following code (replace the blue part with the actual URL where the link should go to)

<cfif not isdefined("bAdminMode") or bAdminMode neq true>
 <cflocation url="http://www.URL_of_website.com" addtoken="False">
 </cfif>

5. Save the container
6. Publish the page (you might get redirected instantly, so in that case please contact as, or if you are an administrator use the “batch edit” mode to publish the page.

Done! From now on people that land on this page will go directly to the external page.

As a second option using Javascript, you can place the following code into the HTML / Source part of a Text container (put in the actual URL):

<script type="text/javascript">window.location.href="https://new-url.com/";</script>

Using this code will show the original page for about 1 second and then redirect to the new target.