The Sites Console

There are several activity areas in this console with icons/links or dropdowns.

Dropdowns are generally unlabeled, so we have provided our own names in quotes in the documentation. Other tools have unlabeled icons, but those generally have a text label that is revealed on hover.

Located in the top left of the window.

This links to the main Start page.

Located in the top left of the window.

This unlabeled dropdown reveals additional information about the selected pages within a new sidebar called the Side Panel, located on the left side of the window. Information about the pages is available in separate Drawers.

Located in the top middle of the window.

Use this dropdown to navigate back up through the file tree from your selected folder.

Located in the top right of the window.

This tool helps to locate pages when there are a lot of children under the same parent, by allowing authors to skip ahead down a long list of pages without having to continuously scroll and wait for more pages to 'lazy load.'

• Specify the desired starting place in the tree (0 by default).
• The tool lists the total number of pages so you can easily gauge what value to try.
• E.g. if the page is estimated to be half way through a list of 600 pages, enter 300.

Located in the top right of the window.

This tool helps locate pages when there are a lot of children under the same parent, by allowing all of the children to be loaded at once.

• This is useful when you often visit multiple sites under a single large directory, or are not sure of the exact title of the site or page, and simply wish to view the full list.
• You should only need to load all of the sites once. You can then open various pages for editing in a new tab without requiring the full list to reload.
• This load can take some time for very large lists (e.g. ~600 sites can take nearly 30 seconds).

Located in the top right of the window.

This tool selects all pages in the lowest level displayed. Click the "X" or Escape key to deselect.

Located in the top right of the window.

The 'Create' button reveals a dropdown with choices to create the following:

• Catalog (not used)
  
• Page (only displayed if a page can be created at this location)
  
• Site (not used)
  
• Live Copy (in pilot)
  
• Launch (not used)
  
• CSV Report - quick downloadable report of a specified site
  • a settings page loads, to specify the path, number of levels, and properties to export.

Located in the top right of the window.

This unlabeled dropdown toggles between different displays of the pages or assets. Typically a dropdown at the top provides breadcrumb navigation back up the tree. List View allows many sorting options, which only affect the individual user's view -- read more about How to Sort Displayed Pages. Natural order is by creation date (newest pages are listed last) but this can be manually changed -- see How to Reorder Pages.

• List View (the default) - Loads the pages as an expandable file tree for the selected level, including additional details such as Title, Name, Modified, Published and Template. We recommend List View because it allows reordering of pages.
• Column View - Displays a series of side by side page lists, with a new list loading to the right of the last, each time a page with children is selected. For a page with no children, the final pane shows page information.
  
• Card View - Loads the pages as an exploded grid for the selected level.
• View Settings - (unknown)

Located along the left side of the window.

On demand, a left sidebar called the Side Panel can be revealed to provide more information about a site and its pages. The Side Panel is revealed (or concealed) using the unlabeled Content Tree dropdown in the top left of the window.

The following options are provided. Keyboard shortcuts are listed as "Alt-x".

• Content Only - The default. Side Panel is closed.
  
• Content Tree (Alt-1): Loads a file tree of all displayed pages.
• Timeline (Alt-2): Shows recent activity to a selected page, including the latest publication or modification timestamps, Versions and Annotations. (This is not the page's complete history.)
  
• References (Alt-3): Shows additional information about a selected page such as incoming links or calls for display from other UBCMS pages.
  
• Filter (Alt-4): Starts a search, focused on the section of the UBCMS you are currently viewing. All text fields are indexed, including page content and metadata.

Located in the center of the window.

This is the heart of the console, displaying the actual pages that make up each website. Depending on the View chosen, you can navigate through the parents to reveal their children and some information about each page.

• Click on a parent page to reveal information about that page.
• To expand the view of a parent page, click the page title or > icon.
  
  • The next level of content appears in an adjacent scrollable sidebar.
  • To expand an additional level deeper, click the page title or > icon next an item in the adjacent sidebar.
• Click a page's thumbnail to select the page and display general details about that page:
  
  • Title
  • Name
  • Modifed (timestamp and user)
  • Template
  • Published (status, e.g. 'not published')
  • Workflow
    

Located across the top of the window (when displayed).

This tool bar appears when a page is selected (click the thumbnail) and provides access to the following features. If the bar i stoo long, the remainder are revealed by clicking the '...' at the right end.

• Create
  • Catalog (unused)
    
  • Workflow
  • Version
  • Page
    
  • Site (unused)
    
  • Live Copy (in pilot)
    
  • Launch (unused)
    
  • CSV Report - Quick downloadable report of specified page(s).
• Edit - Opens the page in the Edit Console.
• Properties - Displays settings for the selected page.
  
• Lock - While locked, only you can modify the page and it cannot be published. Only you can unlock it.
• Copy - Copy the selected page, which then turns on the Paste option.
  
• Move - Relocate the selected page elsewhere in your site, or give it a new name.
  
• Quick Publish - Publish selected page and any references.
• Manage Publication - Publish/Unpublish and set Scheduling at a future date and time.
• Restore - Recover saved versions of page(s).
  • Restore Version - Restores a saved version of one page (not its children).
    
  • Restore Tree - Restore an entire page tree (a page and all of its children).
• Delete - Delete the selected page.
  
  
• X - Deselect the selected page(s).

List View provides the opportunity to sort the display of pages in each of the various columns. This is just for your personal view of Author, and has no impact on site navigation or lists, or your published site, but will perpetuate throughout Author until you change or undo this specification.

Click the ^v button at the top of any of the columns (Title, Name, Modified, Published, Template, Workflow). The sequence is Ascending > Descending > Off (default), and in each case, the pages will be ordered in alphanumeric or chronological order as appropriate.  Clicking the next column overrides the first choice. If you click through to Off, we recommend you reload the page to correctly see the default order.

A more powerful way to sort your displayed pages is provided by the Filter (search) tool.

Open Side Panel and select Filters, or use alt+4 keyboard shortcut. This will provide a controlled search for the selected folder in the Sites Console. You can ignore the search box, but choose from the available filters, including Publish Status, Modified Date, and more.

Your own view of the child pages in a folder can always be adjusted just in Author, using the Sort and Filter (search) tools.

But you can also change the real order of those pages--this is called reordering--and impacts all authors as well as your live site.

To reorder pages. make sure you are in List View, then drag and drop a page up/down (i.e. within the same 'folder') by dragging the 'domino' 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.