Setup footer and service menu
In this tutorial we would like to show you to which points you should pay attention when setting up Shopware 6, because during the installation no information pages such as terms and conditions, privacy, etc. are created.
Information pages in footer and service menu
You can create your own substructure within the category tree and assign it to the menus.
We will explain this step by step below.
Please note that the top category must also be active.
Create a category structure
First create the categories you want to use in the menus.
This could look like this:
A new category can be created using the "..." button in the context menu. When you open the context menu, you have to click on new category after for the category "Footernavigation". Next, open the context menu of the category you just created and click on the option new subcategory. In our example we have called this "Shopservice". Now you have to create the subcategories for your different pages in the footer. To do this, click on the option new subcategory in the context menu of the category "Shopservice". Now you can create as many subcategories as you need and name them. Remember also to activate the newly created categories.
To learn how to create and manage categories, please read the article categories.
Create and assign shopping experiences
In order to fill the individual pages with content, you assign a layout created in the experience worlds to the category (1).
This layout should be of the shop page type, as it does not contain a listing or the shopping cart area of a product detail page.
About the shopping experiences you are completely free in the design of the shop pages.
So you can either use the same layout for all pages and then maintain the content in the respective category or you create an individual layout for each shop page.
You can find out how to create corresponding pages in the shopping experiences in the article Shopping Experiences
If you click on Layout (1), you will notice that there are already some layouts for store pages in the standard version, such as Imprint, Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. You can of course use these layouts directly, but you will have to adapt the texts according to your information. You can change the texts in the experience worlds by clicking on the desired layout.
Then you assign the created layout to the respective category under Layout assignment (1).
Alternatively you can also open the layout editor of the shopping experiences directly to create a new layout (2).
Assigning navigation points to the sales channel
To ensure that the menus are shown in the frontend, it is necessary to select the menus as entry points for the respective menus.
This is done in the settings for the relevant sales channel in the General Settings.
The structure in the footer is specified using the entry point for the footer navigation (1). In deviation from this, a separate menu can be used for the service navigation under entry point for the service navigation (2) (by default you can find the service menu on every page under the footer menu).
In the footer, the menus are displayed in 3 columns, with the first entry being the service hotline.
You can customize the data by using the text modules footer.serviceHotlineHeadline and footer.serviceHotline.
If you include more than 2 own columns in the footer, an additional row will be added.
Links to information pages
(1), the privacy in the registration form (2) or the terms and conditions and revocation notice in the checkout (3 and 4), the following steps are necessary:
Create shop pages
First create under Contents > Shopping Experiences corresponding shop pages for terms and conditions, revocation notice, shipping and payment information and privacy. Information on how to use the editor can be found in the articleShopping Experiences.
If applicable, you can also use pages that you have already created for the footer..
Assign shop pages
Then you can assign the created pages under Settings > Basic information in the section shop pages.
