How to use new Web App sub-folder feature?

[sharifer007]

How do we use this new feature, can you provide process steps?

BC Blog Web App sub-folder update:

http://www.businesscatalyst.com/_blog/BC_Blog/post/January_2013_System_Update_-_Fresh_UI_improvement...

"Render Web App items inside a sub-folder, such as /folder/subfolder/webapp-name. For example, you could have /blog/authors/bogdan (where Bogdan is the Web App item name)"

[Liam Dilley · Accepted solution]

Just as it says there really.

You can create a folder that has the same name as your web app and set up pages inside of it.

Web app called - news.

Folder - /news

Create index page - /news/index.html

This means /news will go to that landing page and web app items will work as normal as - /news/your-news-post

You can create other pages in that folder if you wish but can not be the same name as your web app items.

[Adam__Logo_Pogo_]

So how do the sub folders work exactly? As per Sharifer007's example an drefering to that blog post, is the WebApp still "folder" or is it "sub-folder"?
If the WebApp is "folder" what use is the assigning of a subfolder. Would that then mean we could categorise items of a single WebApp into subfolders and display only those related items when viewing a subfolder (this doesn't seem right without the use of 'classifying' items).

Or is it puely an SEO thing being able to customise the directory structure?

I can't see why subfolders for WebApps would be of any use without having multiple WebApps which you were trying to make appear as one... but that seems a clumsy way of doing it?

Perhaps I'm missing something, can anyone shed light on this new subfolder feature for WebApps? and perhaps a use case for this?

[Liam Dilley]

Wrong idea Adam, not talking sub folders.

You could not make a page or folder with the same as a web app before and thus could not utilise the index.html of the folder structure a web app creates.

The update allows you to do this and allows you to add other pages inside a folder you create yourself based on the same folder as the web app.

Not sure what you trying to think but forget that train of thought - not correct here.

Reason this update is good?

IF you had a list of testimonials you would build a web app called "testiomnials" and create some testimonials.

the folder would be..

yoursite.com/testimonials/johnsmith

If you wanted to create a listing of all of them you would make a page and stick a module on that page.

That page you would have to call "testimonial-list" as testimonials was reserved fro the web app. BC wasted the ability to have a index.html in /testimonials so you can have a better url for your list.

By making a folder of the same name as the web app folder you can.

What else you want to do based on the abilities open is entirly up to you.