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Editing a Page

Locate the Page

To edit a new or existing page, you need to hard select it (click on the icon rather than the title area) and click on "Edit"

Basic Authoring Environment

Once you open a page for editing, you will see a screen with a number of options and interfaces.

1. Left Side Rail - This area is a tab environment that allows you to view and/or insert:

  • Assets, such as images and videos
  • Components - components are the building blocks of a page
  • Content tree - this is a view letting you see and locate components already added to the page

2. Page Information - Selecting the Page Information dropdown will give you a number of choices:

  • Open Properties
  • Lock Page
  • Publish Page
  • Unpublish Page
  • View as Published
  • View as Admin
  • Help


While in Edit Mode, the page contents may look improperly spaced.  To see a more accurate representation, there are two options:

  1. Click Preview on the top right corner of the screen and refresh the page.
  2. Select "View as Published" from the Page Properties dropdown menu.  This will open a new tab.

3. Edit Mode - Ensure you are in edit mode by selecting Edit on the top right corner of the page.

4. Component Container - On any editable page, you will see a root container in which you can add various components to populate the page. To add a component, you can:

  1. Double click on "Drag components here" and you will see an menu popping up, allowing you to select a component from the list.
  2. Single click on "Drag components here" and you will see an "+" icon, which prompts the same component list that you can select from.
  3. Open the side panel and drag and drop one of the options from the component library.

Authoring Components is discussed indepth here: