The Page Editor

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Jun 27, 2017
3 min read

The above shows the standard Lynicon editor shown when editing a single content page.

You will see this editor once you are logged in as an editor on the site.  You can go to any page on the site and you will see an editor for it (if it's possible to edit).  To get to any page you want to edit, you can use the normal navigation and links on the site, or the List or Filtering pages in the CMS UI.

The editor has 3 main sections (in orange boxes):

  • The Page View: this shows the page in it's currently saved state.  When you click the Save button on the CMS controls this will update to the newly saved data.
  • The Editor Area: this shows the current data used to build the page.  The editor area has a number of expandable section bars, in which are grouped editor fields for the different kinds of data needed to set up the page.
  • The CMS Controls: the bar at the bottom shows on the left links to different administrative pages, and on the right controls for the current page.

The editor area and CMS controls are described further below:

The Editor Area

The section bars in the editor area (labelled Closed Section; Open Section and Open Section, Collection of Items) can be open and closed by clicking the arrow to the left.  If they contain a list of items, there is a plus button to the right and on a bar at the bottom when the section is opened, which adds a new item to the list at the bottom.

The General section can be seen opened.  There are a variety of different kinds of fields within it, in this case you can see a dropdown, a multiline text editor, two checkboxes, another dropdown, two text boxes, and image, a date and a (limited) HTML field.

These are mostly pretty straightforward to do.  The exception is the image control: if the current image is clicked, this transforms into a url box and a button which will open the image library to select a different (or new) image.

The editor will warn you if someone else has changed the content item you are working on since you opened the editor so you do not accidentally overwrite their work.

The CMS Controls

The dark grey bar at the bottom of the page contains the CMS control buttons.  This bar is common to all the CMS UI pages.  The bar contains links on the left:

  • Log Out: log out of your current session
  • List: go to a searchable sectioned list of all content items
  • Filtering: go to a tool which lets you create lists of content items with associated information using a variety of filters, and download these lists.
  • Admin: (Administrator users only) Lets you control modules, investigate errors and move data between fields of a given content type
  • Users: Lets you list, edit and create new site users.

On the right are other controls, from right to left:

  • Up arrow: opens panel for additional custom controls associated with modules
  • Left/right arrows: shift the boundary between the Page View and Editor Area 20% left or right each click.
  • Version selector: lets you navigate the possible version system values for a content item at this url.  A display bubble is shown for each version value, and these can be changed by clicking the small arrow at the top or bottom of the bubble.  Changing any version value causes an arrow to be shown to the right of the version selector. Once the desired version values are set, click this arrow and the page will update to show the content at the new version (if any).  Note that these bubbles are shown in red when they display a set of version values different from the default for the current user.  You can get a longer description of the current version value by hovering over any of the version bubbles. The values shown are (U)npublished, www.greatbritishchefs.com domain, (N)ormal (as opposed to X - deleted).
  • SAVE: saves the current data entered in the editor
  • DELETE: deletes the current item.
  • PUBLISH: publishes the current item (this button is added by the Publishing module).