====== Liquid Drops ======
Everything you create in SandwichBoard can be accessed in your [[Liquid templates]] and web site pages through [[drops|Liquid Drops]]. In software development terms, drops are objects with public member properties. Properties can be numbers, strings, collections, and even other drops. Drops can be accessed in both output ''%%{{ }}%%'' and tag ''%%{% %}%%'' Liquid blocks.

The [[Restaurant drop]] represents a business--whether it has one location or many. It can be accessed from any template or page by calling ''restaurant''.

The [[menu drop|Menu, Menu Section, Menu Item, and Menu Item Variation drops]] represent a restaurant's menus. They can be accessed from any template or page by calling the ''menus'' collection or ''menu'' in the ''menu.liquid'' template. Menus have Menu Sections; Menu Sections have Menu Items; Menu Items can come in Menu Item Variations.

The [[Article drop]] represents an article created in SandwichBoard. Articles can be accessed from any template or page by calling the ''articles'' or ''articles_by_keyword'' collections.

The [[Event drop]] represents an event happening at one of a restaurant's locations. Events can be accessed from any template or page by calling the ''events'' or ''events_by_keyword'' collections.

The [[Album drop]] represents an image album. Albums can be accessed from any template or page by calling the ''albums'' collection or ''album'' from the ''album.liquid'' template. Albums have Images; Images can have Comments.

The [[location drop|Location, Schedule, and Schedule Entry drops]] represent a restaurant's locations and their hours of operation. They can be accessed from any template or page by calling the ''locations'' collection or ''location'' in the ''location.liquid'' template.

The [[Page drop]] represents an arbitrary web site page created in SandwichBoard. Pages can be accessed from any template or page by calling the ''pages'' collection.