Finding a page
The first step to editing or viewing a page is to locate it within the site map. All of the pages within your website will be represented in the site map (or tree) and typically the page that you are looking for will exist within another page, thus creating the “branching tree” notion. By using the plus and minus icons, you are able to display and hide the contents of pages, thus revealing the page you require.
Many websites utilise “breadcrumb” navigation within pages to display the route that you have taken through the website to arrive at the current page. An example might appear as:
Home » Documentation » Quick Reference Guide » Finding a Page
Based on this breadcrumb, you could logically assume that the page you are currently viewing is located in the site map in the following location:
- Click on the Site Content icon
to display the Site Content window - Click on the plus icon
next to the page within which the page you require is located
This will display the (child) pages located below and linked to the currently selected (parent) page…
- Continue to click on the plus icons to locate the required page
This process will “drill down” the levels of the site map, enabling you to locate the page you require…
If you expand a branch of the site map inadvertently, simply click on the minus icon
to hide the details again… - Once you can see the page that you require, click on the page icon or title to display the contents in the Edit Page pane – this page is now ready to edit
You can also navigate to a particular page via the staging site. Simply click on the Draft Site tool at the bottom of the window, to launch the draft site, use the hyperlinks to navigate to the relevant page and then click on the CMS tool. This will launch the SilverStripe CMS interface and load the current page into it.
