Penn State University Libraries - Managing Pages

This section describes how to create a page within CQ and then create content on that page.

Note: Your account needs the appropriate access rights to create or edit pages.

Unless all pages have been created for you in advance, before you can start creating content, you must create a page:

1. From the Websites tab, select the level at which you want to create a new page.
2. In the New... menu (click the arrow next to New...), select New Page.... The Create Page window opens.  (Clicking New... itself also acts as a shortcut to the New Page... option.)
3. In the Title field, select a title that is displayed to the user. 
   
4. In the Name field, select a name that is used to create the URL.  Since long urls can become difficult to remember and type, use the following guidelines for a Name:
   1. Short & descriptive. (10 characters or less.)
   2. All lowercase (a-z, 0-9).
   3. One word. No spaces. No underscores.
5. Click the template you want to use to create the new page. The template determines the most basic layout of a content page. (See Page Examples for available templates.)
   
6. Click Create to create the page. You return to the Websites tab where you can see an entry for the new page.  This provides information about the page (for example when it was last edited and by whom) which is updated as necessary.

You can open the page to be edited by one of several methods:

• From Websites tab, you can double-click the page title in either pane to open it for editing.
• From Websites tab, you can right-click the page item in the page list pane, then select Open from the menu.
• After you have opened a page, you can navigate to other pages within the site to edit them by clicking hyperlinks.

You can copy a page if you'd like to duplicate the structure of an existing page and subpages:

1. Within the Websites tab, navigate to the folder where your page is located and click to select the page.
2. Click Copy.
3. Within the Websites tab, navigate to the folder where you'd like the new page to reside.
   
4. Click Paste.  A copy of your page(s) will be pasted to this location.
   

The procedure to move or rename a page is the same. You do not need to do both: you can rename a page without moving it or vice versa.

To move or rename a page:

Note: Before moving or renaming a page, first deactivate the page.

1. From the Websites tab, click to select the page, then select Move.... (You can also select the page item, then right-click and select Move....) The Move window opens where you can either specify a new location, a new name for the page, or both.
2. Fill in the following fields, as appropriate:
   1. Move: Specify the page to be moved - this is usually filled in by default, depending on how and where you started the move action.
   2. to: Use the sitemap tree (available via the drop-down menu indicated by the magnifying glass icon) to select the location where the page should be moved to. If you are only renaming the page, ignore this field.
   3. Renameto: The current page name (the part that appears in the URL) displays by default. Specify the new page name, as needed.
3. Click Move. CQ confirms that you want to move or rename the current page. Click Move to confirm.

You can delete a page from various locations:

• Within the Websites tab, click to select the page, then right-click and select Delete from the resulting menu.
• Within Sidekick, use the Page actions tab to select Delete. This deletes the page that is currently open.

After you have selected to delete a page you must confirm the request, as the action cannot be undone.

Note: If the page has been published you can restore the latest (or a specific) version, but this may not have exactly the same content as your last version if further modifications had been made. (See How To Restore Pages for further details.)

A Find & Replace menu option allows you to search for, and replace multiple instances of a string, within a section of the website.

1. Select the root page, or folder, where you want the "Find and Replace" action to take place.
2. Select Tools then Find & Replace:
3. The Find & Replace dialog will:
   1. confirm the root path where the find action should start
   2. define the term to be found
   3. define the term that should replace it
   4. indicate whether the search should be case-sensitive
   5. whether only whole words should be found (otherwise substrings will also be found)
4. Clicking Preview will list where the term has been found. You can select / deselect specific instances to be replaced.
5. Click Replace to actually replace all instances. You will be asked to confirm the action.