Basic tasks and concepts
You can modify the contents of your website directly in the web browser. For example, you can edit content directly inline; add, remove, or move pieces of content; and add new Pages to the website.
- Starting editing
Start editing to modify the webpage or its contents. - Configuring personal preferences
Use the Info Bar at top right to configure your personal preferences: user interface language and regional settings (locale). - Borders
When you have started editing, borders appear around the webpage and around individual editable pieces of content. - Basics of saving and undoing
While you are modifying a webpage, Experience Manager saves your work automatically for yourself only. When you have finished modifying the page, make your changes available to all visitors of the staging website. - Advanced saving and undoing options
You can save and undo only changes to the contents of individual Components, or only changes to the layout or appearance of the page. - Refreshing content
As you edit one part of a webpage, another user may edit another and then make those changes available to everyone. As a result, you may see stale content. If so, the Update Preview button on the Home tab of the ribbon flashes, and a message tells you the content is not up to date. Click Update Preview to see the freshest content. - Checking publish status
You can publish Components and Pages to one or more destinations. Editable webpages report on the success or failure of a publish action at the top of the screen. For more detailed information about the status of your and other users' publish actions, you can examine the Publishing Queue. - Viewing Component properties
View Component Properties to find out more about this Component. Viewing information about a Component can give you the background you need to decide if you want to edit it. Alternatively, if an item is in workflow, you can find out who is working on it (if anybody) and contact them if necessary. - Disabling the context menu
By default, if you right-click while editing a webpage, the context menu for a Component or for the Page opens. However, this makes the context menu of the browser itself unavailable to you. If you want, you can disable the Tridion Sites context menu in order to access the browser's context menu.