Structure of a documentation page

All documentation pages must start with frontmatter as shown below.

---
title: SEO-Title-Browser-Tab-Title
headerTitle: Doc-Page-Title
linkTitle: Navigation-Link
description: SEO-Meta-Description
image: Icon-For-Page-Title
headcontent: Brief-description
menu:
  preview:
    identifier: page-identifier
    parent: parent-page-identifier
    weight: number-to-decide-display-order
type: docs
showRightNav: true
---

Mandatory frontmatter attributes

Field name Description
title Title text to display in browser tab and search engine results
headerTitle Title text to appear as the page title
linkTitle Title text to display in the navigation bar and breadcrumbs
description Description text to display in search results
headcontent Subtitle text below the headerTitle (index pages only)
type Must be docs or indexpage. See types of pages.

Optional frontmatter attributes

Field name Default Description
image N/A Optional icon displayed next to the title (index pages only)
showRightNav (depends) Controls display of the TOC on the right. For pages of type: docs, default is true. For pages of type: indexpage, default is false.

Types of pages

There are two different types of documentation pages: index pages, and content pages.

Index pages have links to subtopics in a topic. These pages are generally named _index.html or _index.md.

Content pages contain information about topics. These pages are named in the format my-docs-page.md.