Moving and Renaming Pages

UBCMS pages have a name and a descriptive title. The title is usually changed in the page's Properties but can also be adjusted when a page is renamed or moved. (Renaming is simply moving a page to a new name in the same location.) Both Authors and Publishers can move pages.  

• UNPUBLISHED PAGES
  
  • Non-publishers and Publishers can move any page that is not activated without negative impact. The UBCMS will automatically adjust any references in the Author environment.
• PUBLISHED PAGES
  
  • Non-publishers should NOT move an activated page even if they are permitted to do so by the UBCMS -- the page will only be moved in author and not in the published site. The published version will now be orphaned, references will still map onto this original page, and intervention will be needed.
    
  • Publishers can move any page that is activated without negative impact provided they reactivate the moved page and any pages that reference the moved page.
    

The Title is a descriptive label, displayed at the top of the browser window, in site navigation, in search and list returns, and by title components on that page.

Change a page's Title by editing its Properties.  

1. In the Sites Console, select the page and then click the Properties tool in the Command Menu that is revealed at the top of the screen.
2. Edit the Title field and click Save & Close.
   
3. Re-activate the page if it is published.

The Name is the file name, the unique identification used to identify the page in the UBCMS. It shows in the page's URL and is used by any links to that page.  

To rename a page, you must "move" it to a new page name. In the process, you can also change its Title, and view if it has been referenced by other pages.

This process is detailed in the next section, Move a Page in the UBCMS.

Note: If you are moving it to a new name in the same location, you must manually provide the new name -- the UBCMS will not allow you to complete the process until you do.

Pages can be 'moved' to a new name under the same parent in the Author environment, or they can be relocated to a different parent.

You can only move a page under an existing parent page. If that parent page does not yet exist, you will have to create it first – see Creating a New Page.

The natural order of child pages under their parent appears in your site's navigation and in lists of pages. Moving a page will not change this order--instead, see the section below 'Change Page Order in Site Navigation'.

The UBCMS builds your site's navigation automatically, using the phsyical order of child pages listed underneath each parent, as shown in the Sites console.

By default, all child pages are displayed (left sidebar, dropdown, etc). In your live site only published pages are shown, but in Author you will see ALL pages (never published, published or unpublished).

To change the existing order of child pages under a parent page, just drag and drop a page up/down the List View (i.e. within the same 'folder') by dragging the 'domino' icon drag handle located at the right end of the page title (it looks like two vertical rows of dots). There is no request for confirmation.

This is not the same as simply changing the way pages are displayed in the Sites Console, which is known as the sort order. (Read more about How to Sort Displayed Pages.)

To hide a page from the navigation, adjust its Properties. There’s a setting called Navigation Options with options to 'Hide in Mobile Navigation' and another to 'Hide in Left Navigation.'

To change the label applied to a page, change its Title in Properties (described above under Change a Page's Title). You can also specifically change its title in just the site navigation--see Properties and Navigation Title.

You can also change the image that appears in a list by embedding an image in the Properties' Image tab, and change the default teaser descriptive text by adding different text into the Properties' Description box (adding a blank space is like adding a blank in alt text).

The page name becomes part of the URL, and is also used in SEO. When naming a page or a folder that will contain pages, it is important to use machine readable as well as intuitive language. Separate words with hyphens and do not use spaces, underscores or special characters. For example, if you are creating a folder titled "Our Images," use "our-images" as the title.

Non Publishers should NOT move a published page.

Authors who are not also Publishers should resist the temptation to move a published page. They are permitted to do so by the UBCMS, but the page will only be moved in author and will not be moved in the live (published) site. The published version of that page will now be orphaned, and intervention will be needed to remove it from your live site, or to make future changes. Also, any links TO that page from other live pages will now be broken.