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I am wondering how you build a hierarchy, I’ve played with Categories and I’m a bit lost, because you can check many of the categories during Publishing.

Overview:
1: I have a template called ‘Site’, which will apply to almost every page.
2: I want a sub-section called ‘Lab’, so it would appear on my webpage like this:

- Home
-- /Lab
---- /API (Another page under lab, sharing the site template possibly)
---- /Other (Another page under lab, sharing the site template possibly)
- Contact

Q: Do I have to create a template for Lab even if it uses the same Site template?

Q: If I do NOT have to create a template for every sub-section, how would I tell the Site/Index file to load the home page when it does not have a URL, and how does it know what page to load?

Is it something like this:

{if segment_1 == ""}
  {exp:channel:entry channel="site" entry_id="1"}
    Q: Should a Fixed entry ID be here for the home page?
    {title}
    {site_body}
  {/exp:channel:entry}
{else if segment_2 == "lab"}
  {exp:channel:entry channel="site_lab" limit="1"}
    Q: Should I have a separate channel for a sub-section like Lab?
    Q: But how do I know this would load the right channel? 
    {title}
    {site_body}
  {/exp:channel:entry}
{else}
  {exp:channel:entry channel="site" limit="1"}
    Some other default page thing
  {/exp:channel:entry}
{/if}

Does this make sense what Im trying to do?

You can use the Pages module to create the page hierarchy and set the templates for each page.

awesome thanks 😊

You’re welcome.

Thanks Alex. Closing this out for you JREAM. If you have further questions feel free to start a new thread