Navigating the site map
The hierarchical tree structure or “site map” displayed in the left pane of the SilverStripe CMS window enables you to easily navigate your website content, thereby locating the item that you are looking to edit. Items are arranged in groups (“branches”) and you can expand and collapse branches of the tree to display or hide the contents. A range of different icons are used to distinguish items within the tree. These icons are described in the table below.
- Click on the Site Content icon
to display the Site Content window - Move the mouse pointer over a plus icon
to the left of a page in the My Site pane
The pointer will change to a hand icon…
- Click on the plus icon
That particular branch of the tree will be expanded to display the contents contained within. The contents will display another level of pages. Once you have clicked on a plus icon, it will change to a minus icon
, enabling you to collapse (hide) the structure again…
- Move the mouse pointer over the plus icon to the left of a page on the second level
- Click once to display the contents of the sublevel page
You can continue in this way to “drill down” through the hierarchy of pages in the site map, to locate the page you are looking to edit… - Click on the minus icon next to a page to hide the contents of that page
This action collapses the tree structure, so that the contents of pages are hidden once again. As you only have a limited space on the screen to view the pages in the site map, it makes sense to collapse those pages that you are not interested in at that time…
