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.

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.

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. GeneralTab1 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.

The Layout-tab contains settings related to the page layout, which is to say the template used to render page content. LayoutTab 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

The SEO-tab contains search engine optimization related settings, chiefly for adding metadata and tweaking URLs: SEOTab 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

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. PublicationTab 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	Its value is reflected in content repository (index) via column PageAllowSearch, and can be used to determine whether or not the page should be included/excluded in content searches.
Show in sitemap	-
Hide for mobile	Check to hide page, if user accesses website from mobile	Legacy
Hide for tablets	Check to hide page, if user accesses website from tablet	Legacy
Hide for desktops	Check to hide page, if user accesses website from desktop	Legacy
Shortcut	Create a shortcut to another page

The Advanced-tab contains a hodgepodge of settings for advanced scenarios. AdvancedTab 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

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Pages

Page Settings