Pages
Creating a content structure in DynamicWeb 10 CMS
Pages are default building blocks primarily used for two things:
- To define the content structure of a website
- To act as containers for content coming from paragraphs
As an editor, you interact with pages via the content area tree. You can use the plus-button as well as the page context menu to add and interact with pages.
When you click on a page, the workspace will show the page content in either list view or visual editor mode, depending on the design. You can then create and edit content using either of these modes.
Page Settings
Pages are rich objects with lots of settings for tweaking or configuring page behaviour, accessible from the page context menu or via the Settings-button in Visual Editor mode. The page settings are organized into tabs of related settings, you can read more about each tab below.
General
The General-tab is either very important or not at all important, depending on the website design. If the design does not use items to extend page settings, the only thing on this tab is the Page title field.
On the other hand, if the design does use an item type to extend page settings (via the Advanced-tab for the website), this tab also contains the fields from this item type. This is extensively used in DynamicWeb Swift.
Layout
The Layout-tab contains settings related to the page layout, which is to say the template used to render page content.
The following settings are available:
| Setting | Use | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Select template | Select a page-layout for this page | Only layouts from the design are available. If a default page layout is specified in the website settings for this page or item type, this is only used to override that selection. |
| Inherit to subpages | Check to make all subpages use the layout selected above | |
| Select content type | Set a custom HTTP header content-type for this page | This is typically used to when publishing data in a feed of some sort |
| Assign tree Section | Assigns the page to a specific section in the content tree | If the section hasn't been used before, it is created |
SEO
The SEO-tab contains search engine optimization related settings, chiefly for adding metadata and tweaking URLs:
The following settings are available:
| Section | Setting | Use | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta | Meta title | Set the title tag | |
| Description | Set the meta description | ||
| Keyword(s) | Set meta keywords | Not in use by Google since 2009 | |
| Google preview | Displays a preview of meta information | ||
| Noindex | Check to set noindex on page | Used to exclude a page from being indexed by search engines (if they respect the tag) | |
| Nofollow | Check to set nofollow on page | Used to ask crawlers not to follow links on this page | |
| 404 for detected robots | Check to present a 404-page to visitors identified as robots | Based on user-agent | |
| Canonical | Set the canonical url for this page | ||
| Image | Set the image for this page | Useful when sharing pages on social media, as this image will be attached | |
| URL | URL | Displays the auto-generated URL for this page | See Customized URLs |
| Use in URL | Specify a custom URL for this page | Illegal characters are: '+', '?', '#', '%', ':', ';', '|', '<', '>', '*' ,' '(two whitespaces) ,'""' (two doublequotes). This setting depends on the url index being rebuilt, which can take a while, especially on solutions with many products or pages. | |
| Do not include URL in subpage URLs | Check to allow URLs to be trimmed by ignoring the parent page part of the URL in the subpage URL. | You can use this if you don´t want the parent page name in the URL for the subpage, e.g. 'www.yourdomain.dk/Frontpage/subpage.aspx' is changed to 'www.yourdomain.dk/subpage'.aspx | |
| Exact URL for this page | Specify an exact url for this page | E.g. without an extension or with a different extension, a different name, a specific path etc. The content in this field overrules the whole URL (after yourdomain.com/) for the current page. It does not have an effect on the subpage URLs. | |
| URL Provider | Select and configure an URL Provider |
Publication
The Publication-tab contains settings typically used by implementers to control which pages to show in a navigation, etc. These settings don't do anything by themselves, but they are available in templates for front-enders to use.
The following settings are available:
| Setting | Use | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Publish state | Switch between publish states Published, Hide in menu, Unpublished | The default publish state can be changed from the Interface settings |
| Publication period from/to | Specify when the page will be published/unpublished | |
| Clickable | - | |
| Show in breadcrumb trail | - | |
| Display ‘last update’ | - | |
| Show in searches | - | |
| Show in sitemap | - | |
| Hide for mobile | - | Legacy |
| Hide for tablets | - | Legacy |
| Hide for desktops | - | Legacy |
| Shortcut | Create a shortcut to another page |
Advanced
The Advanced-tab contains a hodgepodge of settings for advanced scenarios.
From the advanced tab you can:
| Setting | Use | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Navigation tag | Sets the navigation tag for the page | Developers have access to this tag in frontend and can use it to e.g. switch between navigation templates |
| Show this page in frontend | Decides if access should be granted "For all users" or "Only for users with access to this page" | |
| Login template | Select a template for login | |
| Https | Overrides the HTTP configuration set up at website level | |
| Lock language versions | Locks all language versions of this page | Only works if you've configured the language management settings to allow page content to differ from master content |
| List sub pages | Shows all subpages to this page in list-like view instead of in the content tree | It is not possible to use Visual Editor on the page if "List sub pages" is checked |
| Item type | Changes the page item type | |
| Select workflow | To select a content workflow for this page |
Ecommerce
The Ecommerce-tab allows you to set up Ecommerce navigation on this page. This adds channel groups to the collection of navigation nodes being generated for this page.
To set up Ecommerce navigation:
- Check Ecommerce navigation
- Select a parent group – groups or shop. If group choose between specific groups or all groups
- Select a shop
- Check Include products to add each product as a node in the navigation
- Set the max levels to include – this is how deep you want the navigation to be
- Specify a product page – this should point to a page with a product catalog used to render the product list
In many cases - e.g. on Swift-solutions - this functionality has been replaced by the Ecommerce URL Provider