Editing Page Content

Once your page is created (either new or as part of a launch or live copy) you can edit the content to make the updates you require.

Content is added using components (appropriate to the content type) that can be dragged onto the page. These can then be edited in place, moved, or deleted.

The sidekick is a key tool when authoring pages. It floats when authoring a page, so it is always visible.

Several tabs and icons are available, including:

• Components
• Page
• Information
• Versioning
• Workflow
• Modes
• Scaffolding
• Client Context
• Websites

These provide access to a wide selection of functionality; including:

• selecting components 
• showing references 
• accessing the audit log 
• switching modes 
• creating, restoring and comparing versions
  
• publishing, unpublishing a page
• editing page properties 
  
• scaffolding
  
• client context  

After you open the page, you can start to add content. You do this by adding components (also called paragraphs).

To insert a new component:

You can also add a new component to the page by dragging an asset from the Content Finder. This will automatically create a new component of the appropriate type containing the asset.

This is valid for the following asset types (some will be dependent on page/paragraph system):

To create a component by dragging one of the above asset types:

To edit an existing paragraph, do one of the following:

• Double-click the paragraph to open it. You see the same window as when you created the paragraph with the existing content. Make your changes and click OK.
• Right-click the paragraph and click Edit.
• Click twice on the paragraph (a slow double-click) to enter the in-place editing mode. You will be able to directly edit the text on the page, instead of inside a dialog window. In this mode, you will be provided with a toolbar at the top of the page. Just make your changes and they will be automatically saved.

To move a paragraph:

To delete a paragraph:

As when Deleting a Component you can use the context menu to copy, cut and/or paste a component

Inherited components can be the product of various scenarios, including:

• Multi site management; also in combination with scaffolding.
• Launches (when based on livecopy).
• Specific components; for example the Inherited Paragraph System within Geometrixx.
  

You can cancel (then re-enable) the inheritance. Depending on the component, this can be available from:

Annotations allow other authors to provide feedback on your content. This is often used for review and validation purposes.

There are two icons in the bottom border of the sidekick that are important to previewing pages:

For larger scale edits of the same phrase a Find & Replace menu option allows you to search for, and replace multiple instances of a string, within a section of the website.

AEM allows you to lock a page, so that no-one else can modify the contents. This is useful when you are making a lot of edits to one specific page, or when you need to freeze a page for a short while.

To lock a page:

To unlock a page:

Use the following keyboard shortcuts while the content frame of the page has focus:

• Undo: Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Cmd+Z (Mac)
  
• Redo: Ctrl+Y (Windows) or Cmd+Y (Mac)
  

When you undo or redo the removal, addition, or relocation of one or more paragraphs, flashing (default behavior) highlights indicate the affected paragraphs.  

AEM stores a history of actions that you perform and the sequence in which you performed them. So, you undo several actions in the order that you performed them. Then, you can use redo to re-apply one or more of the actions.

If an element on the content page is selected, the undo and redo command applies to the selected item, such as a text component.

The behavior of the undo and redo commands is similar to that in other software programs. Use the commands to restore the recent state of your web page as you make decisions about content. For example, if you move a text paragraph to a different location on the page, you can use the undo command to move the paragraph back. If you then decide again to move the paragraph, use the redo command.

You can use undo and redo for the following types of page changes:

• Adding, editing, removing, and moving paragraphs
• In-place editing of paragraph content
• Copying, cutting, and pasting items within a page
• Copying, cutting, and pasting items across pages
• Adding, removing, and changing files and images
  
• Adding, removing, and changing annotations and sketches
  
• Changes to Scaffold
• Adding and removing references
• Changing property values in component dialog boxes.

Form fields that form components render are not meant to have values specified while authoring pages. Therefore, the undo and redo commands do not affect changes that you make to the values of those types of components. For example, you cannot undo the selecting of a value in a drop-down list.