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Editing a Component in a dialog

Edit a Component in a dialog to edit fields that do not appear on the Web page.

About this task

Inline editing lets you modify content of a Component that is displayed on the Web page. However, the Component may contain information that is not displayed, but that you still want to modify. This includes fields that do not appear on the published page. Even though these fields do not appear on the current Web page, you may still want to edit them, because they may appear on other Web pages.

To edit all fields of the Component, including the ones not displayed on the page, edit the Component in a dialog.

Procedure

  1. Open a browser, access a Web page that is editable and start editing by clicking the SDL Tridion button at the top left corner of the page.
  2. Select a Component that you want to edit in a dialog and in the Home tab of the ribbon toolbar, click Open in Form View.

    A Component dialog appears, showing all fields of the Component in a form.

  3. Now do one of the following:
    • To modify the data fields of the Component, modify one or more of the fields you see.
    • To preview the Component as it will appear on the published Web site, click Preview in the Home tab of the Ribbon toolbar.

      In the Preview dialog that opens, you see a default preview of the Component. In this dialog, you can do the following:

      • You can select a Template from the Component Template dropdown menu, then click Refresh Preview, to see different visualizations of the Component. Different Templates will show more or less of the content, use different styles, colors, and fonts, and so on. When previewing a Component, note that the actual dimensions of the Component will be different on the Web page.
      • You can select the Source tab to see the source HTML code fragment of the Component as visualized by the selected Template.

    When you are finished making changes, click the Save & Close button in the toolbar to commit your changes and close the dialog.

    The dialog closes. The Web page is updated to reflect the new changes (if inline editing of the Component is enabled).