Goal

A “content section” is one block on a screen — on a listing detail screen, that means things like the address, the description, business hours, social links, reviews, and more. Every content type registers its own set of available sections, and this is where you choose which of them show up, rename them, reorder them, and — if you want — split them across named content tabs. It’s the per-screen layout control that sits alongside General Settings and Layout Settings for a list-type button.

Prerequisites

• You can reach Mobile App Manager → App Setup (or the App Settings area) as an admin.
• You have a list-type button / screen already created (a screen whose content type supports sections — list, listing-detail, or off-directory style screens). The Content Sections sub-tab only appears when the screen’s content type actually registers sections; if a screen has no configurable sections, the sub-tab is hidden.
• The content type you are working with has at least one section to manage (most list/detail content types do — for example, the GeoDirectory listing detail screen contributes seven sections).

Don’t see a Content Sections sub-tab on a screen? That’s expected — it means this content type doesn’t expose any sections, and there’s nothing to configure here.

Where this lives

Open the screen you want to lay out and look at the row of sub-tabs across the top of its settings. On a list-type screen, you’ll typically find:

• General Settings
• Layout Settings
• Content Sections (only when the content type registers sections)
• Tab Bar Manager (only when the content type supports a per-screen tab bar)
• Add Item Form

Click Content Sections.

These three controls sound similar but do different jobs. Layout Settings shapes the list/grid presentation of the screen. Content Sections decides which blocks appear on the screen (or detail) and in what order. The Tab Bar Manager adds an on-screen tab bar. This article covers Content Sections.

Steps

1. Open the Content Sections sub-tab

From the screen’s settings, click Content Sections. You’ll land on the All Sections tab, where every section the current content type makes available shows up in its own card.

Each section card shows:

• Purpose — a fixed label naming the section, set by the content type and not editable. Use it to keep track of which block you’re looking at.
• Title — an editable text field: the heading shown for the section in the app.
• Show Section — a checkbox. Uncheck it and the section disappears from the screen entirely.
• Show Section Title — a checkbox controlling whether the section’s title (heading) renders above the block. You can show the section itself while hiding its heading.
• A drag handle (the up/down arrows icon on the right of each card), for reordering.

2. Turn sections on or off

Tick Show Section for each block you want on the screen, and untick it for anything you don’t. Nothing is lost when you untick a section — it stays right there in the list, ready to switch back on; it just won’t render in the app while it’s off.

3. Rename a section (optional)

Edit the Title field to change the heading shown in the app. The Purpose label above it stays put — it keeps the section’s original name, so you’ll always know which block you’re editing even after you’ve renamed it.

4. Decide whether the heading shows

Show Section Title works independently of Show Section, so here’s how the two interact:

• Show Section on, Show Section Title on → block appears with its heading.
• Show Section on, Show Section Title off → block appears with no heading (useful for a lead block like a hero or description that reads better without a label).
• Show Section off → block does not appear; the title setting is irrelevant.

5. Reorder the sections

Drag a section card by its handle (the up/down arrows icon on the right) to move it — top-to-bottom order here is exactly the order the blocks render on the screen. Left alone, sections appear in the order the content type registers them; dragging a card overrides that default.

6. (Optional) Split sections into content tabs

All sections start out together under a single All Sections group. If you’d rather split the screen into multiple tabs — each showing its own subset of sections — add named content tabs:

1. In the field next to the tab row at the top, type a name for the new tab (for example, Details or Reviews).
2. Click Add. The new tab is created and selected.
3. With the new tab active, set Show Section / Show Section Title, edit titles, and reorder — this arrangement belongs to that tab alone; every tab keeps its own selection and ordering.
4. Repeat to add more tabs.

Once you’ve added a second tab, All Sections steps aside — the named tabs take over as what the app actually shows, so it’s worth building each one’s arrangement deliberately.

7. (Optional) Rename or delete a content tab

Select a named tab (not All Sections) and two extra controls appear above the section cards:

• Tab Title — edit this and save to rename the current tab.
• Delete this tab? — tick Yes and save to remove the current tab; you’ll land back on All Sections afterward.

The All Sections group itself can’t be renamed or deleted — these controls only show up on named tabs.

8. Save

Click Save Changes at the bottom of the form, and everything — your section choices, titles, heading toggles, order, and tab structure — is stored for this screen. Reload the screen in a built app (or refresh the app data) to see the new layout take effect.

Notes and gotchas

• Sections are defined by the content type, not by you. You’re not inventing sections here — you’re choosing from, renaming, reordering, and toggling the ones the screen’s content type (and any add-on plugins) already contribute. Activate a plugin like Reviews or Chat, and its sections simply show up in this same list.
• Hiding is non-destructive. Unchecking Show Section deletes nothing — the section just waits there, ready to switch back on whenever you want it.
• “Purpose” vs “Title”. Purpose is the section’s fixed identity, so you never lose track of what a renamed block actually is. Title is the heading your customers see. Edit Title as much as you like — Purpose stays read-only.
• All Sections disappears once you add tabs. That’s expected, not a bug. If one arrangement is all you need, leave everything under All Sections and skip tabs altogether.
• One screen at a time. Section configuration lives per screen — two screens sharing the same content type each keep their own separate Content Sections setup.

Related

• Layout Settings — controls the list/grid presentation of the screen (this is a separate sub-tab).
• Tab Bar Manager — adds an on-screen tab bar (separate from the content tabs described here).
• Listing detail content sections (mam-geodirectory) — a concrete example of the sections one content type contributes, and what each one contains.
• Building Your App — the rest of the screen-by-screen build guides.

What’s next

With sections arranged, head to Layout Settings to tune how the list/grid itself looks, and check General Settings for the screen’s title and behavior. If you split things into content tabs, preview the result on a device build so the tab order and per-tab section ordering read the way you meant them to.