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CMS: Add New Page

To create a new page in CMS, click on an existing page and then click the Add New Page button. The new page will be added as a child of the page you selected.



After clicking Add New Page, you will be presented with the following dialog box.

Parent Page This row informs you what page you selected before clicking Add New Page. If it is wrong you can click Cancel and start over, or you can simply move the page later.
Menu Name Text entered in this field will be displayed as a clickable menu item
Language Selector If your site has more than one languge there will be language selection box to the right of the Menu Name field. This determines what language you are entering for the Menu Name. You can add translations for the other languges later.
URL Path The system will automatically create a url based on the menu name you enter. The URL Path it generates is only to be helpful, you can change the url to anything you want. The URL Path is the address to get to the page after the domain name

General URL Standards

  • All urls pointing to system pages must start with a forward slash / and should end in forward slash if you do not use an .htm extension.  For example: /about-us/
  • The only allowed extension is .htm but no extension is needed and it is not required or recommended
  • Use only letters, numbers dashes and forward slashes abc...z, 123...0, - , /
  • It is not recommended to use underscores because it will not be visible if the url is underlined because it is a link
  • Do not use spaces
  • It is recommended that all urls are lower case only
  • Keep the URL Path short and sweet
  • URL Paths can be anything you want, they are not dependent on your page structure
  • If you change the url of a page the links in all system generated menus will update immediately.  However, any link you have inside content will not get updated.  If you are not sure where links to the old url may exist, create a redirect in the Redirects module that points the old url to the new url.

Note: If the page you are creating will be a redirection to another page, you can change the page type after you create the page to a redirection.

Inherit settings for menu, page and template If you uncheck the setting for Inherit settings for menu, document and template you will see the following. This is turned on by default when you add a page under any page other than the home page. What this means is whatever the settings for the Parent Page are will be the same for this page. If you don't want to inherit the settings, just uncheck the box and specify the settings you want.
Menu Visibility

CMS Menu Visibility

This setting controls who can view the menu item of this page

Inherit Settings
Inherit the settings of the parent page.  If selected, you will see the setting in light gray to the right that was inherited
Everyone
Show the menu to everyone
Logged in Users
Show the menu to anyone that is logged in to the system.  The user must belong to any group other than Guest (someone that is not logged in) to see the menu. 
Hide
Do not show this menu anyone 
Limit to Specific Access Groups
Only people that belong to the specified access groups can see the menu

Note: A page's menu can be visible, but its content can be inaccessible based on the Page Visibility settings and vice versa.

Document Visibility

CMS Page Visibility

This setting controls who can view the contents of this page

Inherit Settings
Inherit the settings of the parent page.  If selected, you will see the setting in light gray to the right that was inherited
Everyone
Show the page content to everyone
Logged in Users
Show page content to anyone that is logged in to the system.  The user must belong to any group other than Guest (someone that is not logged in) to see the page. 
Hide
Do not show this page content to anyone 
Limit to Specific Access Groups
Only people that belong to the specified access groups can see the page content.  

Note: A page's content can be accessible, but its menu can be invisible and vice versa.

Template

CMS Template

This setting controls what template to use for this page.  Templates are managed in the Designer module.

Inherit Settings
Inherit the template settings of the parent page.  If selected, you will see the template name in light gray to the right that is inherited
Set Specific Template
Choose a specific template to be used with this page
Create Button After entering your informaiton and settings you are ready to click the Create button. If there are any problems you will be alerted, othewise the Page window will open up where you can add content and make additional changes.

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