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Content Manager Explorer ribbon

The Content Manager Explorer displays buttons and controls in a ribbon. The ribbon is a tabbed toolbar that contains controls for all the operations you can perform.

More frequently used operations have bigger buttons. The main screen has a ribbon, and individual dialogs can also have a ribbon.

The ribbon may not display all available controls, or may disable certain controls. What the ribbon looks like for you exactly depends on the following:

  • Your security settings
  • The currently selected item
  • The currently displayed item

Note also that the same control may appear in multiple tabs of the ribbon.

When you create a new item or edit an item, the window in which you work also displays a ribbon, with its own tabs and controls. Here is an example of a ribbon specific to a dialog:

To save screen space, you can collapse the ribbon to a simple, icons-only toolbar by clicking the collapse/expand button on the left hand side:

Click the collapse/expand button again to return the toolbar to its ribbon appearance. Content Manager Explorer remembers the collapsed or expanded state of your ribbon toolbars across sessions as a user preference.