Editing a Component
You can edit a Component to modify the content of the Component.
Before you begin
To edit a Component, you must have Component Management rights and Write permissions.
It is not possible to edit a Component if the following conditions apply:
- The Component is shared from another Publication
- A different user already checked out the Component
- The Content Manager assigned the Component to a different user through a Workflow Process
Procedure
- Navigate to the Publication and Folder that contains the Component you want to edit.
- To open the Component, select the Component in the list view and click Open on the Home tab of the ribbon.
- Edit the fields in the Component as required. (See Component field types for more information about the different field types).
- Click Save and close in the Home tab of the ribbon.
- Depending on the Schema you selected, you may now be prompted to add this Component to a Bundle. You can choose to skip this step, but if you do, the Component remains checked out to you.
- If this item must be added to a Bundle, a dialog opens asking you if you would like to do so now. You can choose Not Now to close the dialog, but you see a warning informing you that your item is not in a Bundle, and the same dialog will appear every time you save changes to the item. Alternatively, if you select Add, a Bundle selection dialog appears.
- In the tree structure on the left, navigate to a Publication and Folder that contains a Bundle to which you want to add the item, and add it to that Bundle by selecting the Bundle and clicking Add. This adds the item to the selected Bundle and closes the dialog. If the Bundle is already in workflow, the item will be too. You can also select Close, which has the same effect as clicking Not Now in the previous dialog.
Results
The Content Manager saves a modified version of the Component. Any of the following items that use the Component will now use the modified version of the Component:
- Pages
- Component Links in other Components
- Child Publications that share from this Publication