Editing content in Experience Manager
Experience Manager is a Web-based user interface to the Content Manager that allows you to preview and edit content in the context of how your visitors consume the content. These topics describe tasks that end users can perform in Experience Manager.
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- Basic tasks and concepts
You can modify the contents of your Web site 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 Web site. - Resolving a lock
For a variety of reasons, the item you are trying to edit may show you a lock icon in its border. If this happens, you can find out why you are unable to edit the item, and how you may be able to make it editable. - Editing text on the Web page
You can edit text on an editable Web page. - Editing images and file on the Web page
You can add a (link to a) file to the Web page, or modify or remove an image on the Web page. Note that in some cases, you may be able to supply multiple instances of a file or image. This is known as a multivalue field. - Adding, moving or removing items in a multivalue field
A Component you edit may contain multivalue fields, that is, fields that are lists of items of the same type: for example, a list of images, a list of links to internal content, and so on. You can add, move or remove these items. - Editing the metadata of a Component or Web page
Edit metadata to provide information about the item you are editing. You edit metadata in a popup because typically, metadata does not appear on the Web page. - Editing a Component in a dialog
Inline editing lets you modify content of a Component on the Web page. But the Component may contain information that is not on the Web page. You may still want to edit this information, because it may appear on other Web pages. To edit all fields of a Component, use the All Fields dialog. To see and modify all aspects of a Component, including the ability to preview, use Open Form View. - After you have finished editing
When you are done modifying the contents of the Component, there are a number of tasks you can perform next. - Modifying the list of Components on the current Web page
There are a number of tasks you can perform to modify the list of Components on the current Web page. This section lists those tasks. - Web page tasks
You can perform a number of different tasks relating to Web pages as a whole. This section explains how to perform each task. - Workflow Activities
This section explains how to pick up, start, perform and finish Workflow Activities. - Bundle tasks
This section describes tasks you can perform in Experience Manager related to Bundles. Bundles are sets of related Components and Web pages. Experience Manager only shows Bundles that are subject to workflow. - Device Preview
Device Preview allows you to preview and edit content in Experience Manager as it is displayed in a handheld device such as a mobile, smartphone, or tablet. - Safeguard
Safeguard allows you to analyze a Web page in Experience Manager to ensure consistency with branding and standards guidelines. - Targeted content
If you use, for example, SDL Web Experience Optimization to create targeted content, you can see and edit content targeted for specific personas in Experience Manager. You can also create Footprint Sets or use Footprint Sets shared by others. A Footprint Set defines a set of conditions you can apply to content to see what content looks like to visitors in different situations. - Reviewing a translation of an item in Experience Manager
When you have started the Review translation step of a workflow, you can access the translation segments from the Component Properties. You can edit the segments before you accept or reject the translation. - Managing Experience Optimization regions and promotions
Manage targeted and personalized content to set up which content appears in which part of the Web page. - Working with older versions of a Component or Page
If you right-click a Component or Page, the context menu opens, displaying two options for working with older versions of the item, Version History and Compare Versions. - Checking where a Component or Page is used
Check where a Component or Page is used to see how changes you make on one Web page affect other Web pages. - User Generated Content metrics
In the slide-out navigation (available through the top left button), the Control Room screen displays information about User Generated Content. - Quitting your editing session
Quit your editing session to see the Web page you were working on, exactly as it currently appears on the staging Web site. - Reference
This reference section lists all the concepts you can encounter while editing a Web page: user interface items such as the Library and the ribbon toolbar, and concepts you cannot directly see, such as Components and Component Templates.