Edit mode provides advanced functionality for editing content in a site. The site that you see originates from the workspace and is not the site as it appears online. You can browse the site just like you would do in its live version. Site pages contains areas and lists which contain content. For more information see How to contribute content.
The main edit pane is bordered by 3 toolbars.
You can open Edit mode from the Jahia Menu.
You can use the left toolbar:
For example, you can click the Pages button to display the Pages tab in the left panel.
To keep the left panel open, click on the pin button . The edit frame is re-centered and the pin button turns blue. Click again to unpin the left panel. The refresh button
refreshes the left panel. By default, the left panel automatically refreshes when:
By default, the tab displays over the page. The tab becomes hidden when you:
Your administrator can choose to disable the automatic refresh, for example, as it can be inconvenient when lots of publications happen at the same time). When disabled, the refresh icon turns blue to indicate that a manual refresh is needed.
The Pages tab displays the sitemap or page tree of your site. You can open a page by clicking on it to display the page in the edit area. You can also use the site switcher at the top of the tab to easily switch from one site to another.
You can manage your site tree by creating new pages, separators and links from this site tree. For more information, see Pages and navigation contents.
To edit a page, open the edit engine right click and select Edit or clicking on the three dots button ... which appears when hovering on the page in the tree. You can move or reorder pages either by drag-and-drop or cut and paste. When you paste a page you can:
The first element displayed in the page tree is the site, which displays a circle icon. Site level permissions should be set from the edit engine of the site, which can be opened the same way as any page.
You use the Create tab to access to the components (content types and features) available on your site when you create new contents in your pages. You can drag and drop components into the edit frame to create a new content.
Components are organized into logical groups. Click the arrow beside a component group to display components that you can add to pages.
Use the field above the component list to filter components. If you know the name of the component you are looking for, you can filter the list to find it. The entry in the filter field does not need to be validated, as it operates in real time as text is entered.
More information on creating content is available in Adding editorial content to a page.
Use the Content tab to browse the folders containing out-of-context contents. Such contents are found in the contents folder of every site, as well as in the personal folder of the user.
The elements inside a content folder display when the folder is selected. The color indicator next to every element corresponds to its publication status, for example, if the content has been published or modified.
You can drag and drop elements to a location in the current page to create a reference. You can also create new folders and upload files through the contextual menu of the folders.
Note that the contents folder of System Site is mainly used to share contents between sites. This case might not apply for you.
You use the File tab to browse folders containing files and images. The files are stored in the contents folder of every site, as well as in the personal folder of the user.
You can drag and drop elements to a location in the current page to create a reference. You can right click on a file or image and then choose to download the file or image or display an image preview. You can also create new folders and upload files through the contextual menu of the folders.
Note that the contents folder of System Site is mainly used to share contents between sites. This case might not apply for you.
You can use the Search tab to perform full-text searches of any type of content, including all binaries you can browse with the File manager. Several options are available to simplify search and make it faster:
To speed up your searches, you can make them more specific and restrict them to:
You can also refine the search scope by choosing a date range (start date – end date) or a duration (in months). Those dates or duration will be compared to the chosen metadata: creation date, modification date or publication date.
Content items listed in the search results can be selected, and inserted into the current page with a simple drag and drop. The original content is neither moved, nor modified. This action simply creates a reference to the content.
When opening the contextual menu on a search result item, the option "Go to content" appears. This redirects to the page containing the content or the content itself, if it can be displayed on its own. The option "Go to content" is not available for out-of-context contents, i.e. contents created in the "contents" folder of the site. Note: in the "Usages" tab of out-of-context contents, you can find links to all the pages or other contents referencing them.
Categories are used to classify and enrich contents. Categories are organized in a tree, meaning that a category can have sub-categories. The “Categories” tab allows you to browse this category tree and to display the contents associated to the selected category:
These elements can be dragged and dropped in the desired location of the current page in order to create a reference.
Mobile view enables authors to display their site as it would appear on a mobile device. Four mobile device views are available:
Editors can continue to work on the content exactly as if no channel selection is applied.
You can change the device orientation using the rotate button .
The Autofit button adjusts the size of the device to your screen. It is particularly useful when selecting a tablet.
It is possible to define if a content should be displayed or not on selected mobile device types (“Channels”). This is done using the Channels tab in the edit engine of the content.
This Site Settings tab is visible only by users with special permissions who manage global site settings and access specific site features. For more information on site administration, see Managing site settings.
The page and selection toolbar displays the current site, name of the page, and page language.
When you select content on a page then the content name displays below the page name.
If you select several content items, then the number of selected items is displayed below the page name:
To clear the selection, click Clear Selection or click anywhere on the page.
This menu allows switching from one mode to another by accessing to the general menu. The items listed depend on the user rights.
If you are an editor on several sites, you can use the site selector to switch from one site to another. The home page of the selected site then displays in the edit frame.
If a site is available in several languages, you can use the language switcher to display the current page in any available language for the site.
The preview button opens the page in its staging version in a new browser tab. More options are available when clicking on the preview drop-down button:
Please note that previous versions of contents might not be available as they can be deleted for server administration purposes.
The publication button opens the publication dashboard either for the current page or the currently selected item(s), in the current language. More options are available when clicking on the publication drop down button:
Finally
The documentation regarding publication is available here.
It is possible to see the publication status (published, never published, unpublished, modified) of all the contents of a page by checking the box "Show Publication status" in the “Status” menu. Information layers are then displayed on the page. To mask these layers, you can either click on one of them, or uncheck the box in the “Status” menu.
The permission status shows a little icon over contents on which roles (live and edit) are different compared to the parent content:
The visibility status shows a little icon over contents subjected to visibility conditions. A red icon indicates that the content is currently not visible online (the visibility conditions are not met), a green one indicates that the content is currently visible online (the visibility conditions are met).
This option is only displayed for multilingual sites. It allows you to see in the page if content items have been created in other languages in the current page, and which miss a translation in the current language.
This option menu corresponds to the contextual menu of the current page or the currently selected content(s). The options displayed depends on the selected content(s) and the roles of the user. The most common menu options are:
This menu allows to:
The number of workflow tasks awaiting an action is displayed over the Workflow menu:
. If no number is displayed, it means that the user has no workflow task to execute.This button gives access to the list of content items “marked for deletion” meaning that their deletion has been required by an author but is not definitively done. Contents can be undeleted from the trash, or, on the contrary, permanently deleted.
This menu is only available to certain administrators. It gives the possibility to manually flush caches in Live Mode.
This button is available for users allowed to open the background job management window. When a publication job is happening, the job button looks like: