Global Rows
Required & Recommended
Not Required
Your Decision
What are Global Rows?
Global Rows operate similar to regular Rows whereby you can place content within a Row but with Global Rows, the row can be saved as one row and it can be used multiple times over. If you make a change to the Global Row, then changes to all of the rows placed throughout the website will also update.
Why are Global Rows Useful?
Global Rows are useful, as adding multiple Global Rows to different pages; means that you can make a change to one of them, for example, a colour change to the text within the row, and this change will be affected on all Rows associated with this module.
See it in action Step 1 - Engage with Page Builder
Navigate to Pages > All Pages on your administrator area of the website, once there, hover over a page that you'd like to begin editing and you'll see the option called Page Builder as seen here. Proceed to choose this option and you'll be redirected to the page in question. You'll then see the following interface as seen here which provides you with all of the options that you'll need in order to begin creating a webpage.
Step 2 - Save the Row as a Global
Navigate to Rows as seen here and then proceed to choose a column amount, for this example I have kept it simple and chosen 1 Column. Afterward, drag the row onto the page as seen here. At this stage, you can set up your Row with different modules, in my case I have added a single Heading module aligned center.
Hover over the row module on the page and Edit the Wrench (Row Settings), choosing this option will provide you with an interface called Row Settings, once you see this choose Save As, as shown in this image.
After choosing this option, a new interface called Save Row will appear as seen here. Within this interface, there are two important fields, these are;
Name
The Name field allows you to add a Title/Description about the row. For example, in my case, I have named the row Homepage Global Row 1 Heading. I would recommend that you choose a suitable name as per experience; the more global rows that exist - the harder it is to differentiate between them.
Global
The Global option allows us to choose whether the row in question is a default row or a global row. In this case, we want to choose Global Row.
Once both fields have been set, go ahead and Save the module and then also save and publish the changes you have made via the top right options. At this point you have created the global row, you can now revisit the page builder settings to add many more of these rows to your page as explained in Step 3 - Adding your Global Row to the page.
Step 3 - Adding your Global Row to the page
Visit step one and re-engage with the page builder so you can choose modules. Once you're interacting with the page builder on the page; navigate to Rows as seen here. However, this time we're going to choose from the dropdown Saved Rows as seen here. Once loaded, you'll see both global and default rows, in my case I can see the Homepage Global Row 1 Heading that I had just created in Step 2.
From this point on, you can drag as many of these rows onto the page, and then when you make an edit to one of the rows, it'll apply to all of the global rows associated with that saved row.