Frontpage Manager

Frontpage Manager, lists all content items that are displayed in the Frontpage of this site. The order items are presented here is the order they will actually be displayed.

 

Toolbar Icons

Publish and Unpublish: Publishes or unpublishes the selected content item(s). Only published items are visible in the Frontpage.

Archive: Archive selected content items. Archived content items are moved to a special place called 'Archive'. It can be seen only through special menu items that present archived content.

Remove: Removes selected content items from Frontpage. Removed content items are not visible any more in this site's front page.

Help: This Help Screen.

 

Filter

You can use the Filter field to limit listed content items or search for specific content item. You can type a phrase or part of a word and press <Enter>. The table will be updated showning only the content items that have these characters in their title. If you want to show again all content items, leave empty and press <Enter>.

 

Simple/Extended View

Below the Filter field, you will find a switch that let you change the number of colums displayed. 'Simple' shows only the most important columns accelarating editing on web sites with large number of entries. 'Extended', shows all columns. You can try it and use it if it helps you.

 

Column Filters

You will notice that several columns have an arrow next to there headers. When you click them a filter window popups. You can use this filters to select the content items that you want to be displayed. This feature is addressed to web sites that have a large number of content items. It helps administrators to focus only to content items that each time interest them.

 

Columns

Title: This is the title of the Content Item. Click it to edit. A padlock icon next to it shows that it is checked-out. To check-in, click the name to edit. Then you have to Save or Close the item.

Published: Shows if the item is published or not. Hover over this icon to see a summary of publishing information. Click to change state. Acts as a toggle switch.

Reorder: You can change the order of Content Items, by using the arrows. You can also change the order by using the 'Order' boxes, described next.

Order: Shows the current order of Content Items in the Frontpage. You can change it, by editing the order numbers and then clicking the "Save Order" icon next to column header.

Access: This is the user group that is allowed to view this content item. Click on it to change it. A popup window will appear.

Section: This is the Section the item belongs. Section name acts as a link to section parameters.

Category: This is the Category the item belongs. Category name acts as a link to category parameters.

Author: Shows Content Item's author name. Author names act as links to author details.

Language: Shows for which site languages this Content Item is available. It will be shown only if users are viewing this web site in one of the listed languages. If it is set to 'All', then it will be visible for all languages.