What is going on, Wix Nation MPS here from Wix Training Academy and today I'm going to show you how to add pagination next and previous buttons to your online course in Wix.
First and foremost, before this video even kicks off, if you haven't yet watched the previous parts of this mini-series that I put on, I'll throw a card above so you can follow exactly how to build an online course in Wix and all the steps we've gone through. This is part five.
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Other than that, let's go ahead and hop into today's video.
Adding Pagination
Okay, so we are in here at the editor. Now, once again, I am prefacing this video by saying, if you haven't watched the previous parts to this mini-series, go ahead and click the card above and watch them so you know where we're at right now. Obviously if you have watched them, you know that we've already built out our course. We've built out a dynamic page here in the member pages that displays the video and the video title. I showed you how to add modules if you want to add modules and now I'm going to show you how to add pagination if you'd like to add pagination.
What is Pagination?
Now you may be asking “what is a pagination?” Well, essentially what that will allow you to do is say you've got multiple different modules and you want people to be able to go from one module to another fairly seamlessly without having to click and search all around and click different areas on the site. You can manage doing this through one simple, click the button or better yet you want them to be able to switch through pieces of content in your database so one piece of content after another.
Adding Button
Here's what you're going to do. You're going to go to the add button right here. You're going to click it and then you're going to go to button. You're then going to choose a button. We've got one here. I'm going to click that right there. I'm going to copy it and I'm going to paste it. One is going to be previous, one is going to be next, so we'll just name them here too to make it easier. This will be our previous and obviously with deductive reasoning. This will be our next except, spell correctly so now we've got our two buttons are next in our previous button. Here's what we're going to do now.
We are going to click our previous, we are going to click this ‘connect to data’ button and then you are going to click, click 'action connects to' and you are going to choose either next page or next item. If you click next page, it'll take you to the next dynamic page in that particular database. If you click next item, it'll take you to the next item in that database.
So let's just say you've got one row, right, you've got one row and you've got data in there, maybe the video title and the video. If you click next item, it'll take you to row two, whatever's on row two so that video title, that video, and then continue forward.
If you click next page, if you've got one dynamic page with it, maybe a set of data on it or a set of content, a video, some text, a description, a PDF, it'll take you to the next dynamic page, so if that next dynamic page contains your next set of videos, modules, whatever that may look like. That's what that means. In this case, we're going to click previous because this is our previous button. We're going to click previous item and then we'll go ahead and then you'll see it is successfully connected to data because it turned green and then obviously for our next button you'll connect to data and click 'action connects to' next item and just like that you have connected your previous and next buttons to go to the previous and next data pieces in your database.
Now here's what I'm going to tell you in this particular website. These buttons aren't going to work right now. Why? Because we've got one full dynamic page with all of the data from our database in one repeater. In order for these next and previous buttons to work properly, either one, this would have to be a dynamic page and then we would have to have another dynamic page set up, which we do not and we would have to choose next page because then you go by page.
The other way we would do this is if we created one dynamic page for each piece of content so that way it can filter through each item on the database. So that's how that works. If you've got it all set on one repeater, you can have a next and previous button, but make sure you're going to next page, previous page, not next item, previous item, because those are two differences. One will go by the next item in the database, the national go by the next dynamic page associated with the database. So keep that in mind when you're going through this.
Other than that, I hope this video helped you out and I'll give you a little preview of what it would look like with these buttons, how they're connected. If we click next, it doesn't do anything right now because we've got all of our data on this page and there's only one page we've got our data connected to and we clicked next item instead of next page because we don't have a page in all of our items from the database or on this page. But when you do it, if you've got a dynamic page and you click next, it'll go to the next item in your database or the next page.
Conclusion
So I hope this video helped you out. If it did, please drop a like down below, comment again and let me know if this video helped you out along with if this mini-series has helped you out in what you would like to see more help with. And I would be happy to create another video for it, just like I did for the pagination that you guys have been asking.
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