Moving Component Presentations on a legacy Page into Regions

If your organization has opted to migrate from legacy Pages to Region-based Pages, you may open a legacy Page to find that it now has a Region hierarchy, while all of its Component Presentations are on the Page level (the root Region). This means that you can (and sometimes must) move the Component Presentations into the Page Regions.

About this task

Before moving Component Presentations into Regions, first talk to your implementer to find out which Component Presentations are supposed to go in which Regions. Each Region may impose its own restrictions on which, and how many, Component Presentations it can contain.

Procedure

  1. If you have not yet opened the Page, in Content Manager Explorer, navigate to the Publication and Structure Group that contains the Page containing top-level Component Presentations and empty Regions.
  2. Open the Page you want to modify.
    The dialog for the Page opens.
  3. Select the Design tab.
    The left half of the content area shows the tree structure of the Page with it Component Presentation and the hierarchy of its Regions, if it has any. The ribbon toolbar switches to the Content tab.
  4. In the structure, select a top-level Component Presentation that you want to move to a Region.
  5. In the ribbon toolbar, select Cut to move the Component Presentation to your clipboard.
  6. Select the Region in which you want to place the Component Presentation.
    The right half of the content area lists which, and how many, Component Presentations can (still) be added to the Page or Region you selected. It is possible that the level you selected does not allow you to add any (more) Component Presentations.
  7. In the ribbon toolbar, select Paste to insert the Component Presentation from your clipboard.
  8. You can adjust the position of the Component Presentation within the Region as needed by selecting Move up and Move down in the ribbon toolbar.
  9. Repeat steps 4 through 8 above until the top level contains no Component Presentations, or as many as are allowed on that level.
  10. When you are finished moving all the Component Presentations you wanted to move to the Regions of this Page, select Save and Close.