dotCMS Tutorial: How to Edit Generic Content

Sample Video Tutorial - dotCMS Tutorial: How to Edit Generic Content

Welcome to this dotCMS website training for how to edit a container of content on your

webpage.

Now we're going to assume that you already know how to edit and lock your webpage, which

has already been applied for this particular webpage.

Page is locked and we're already in editing mode and now we want to edit this container

of content on the page.

And to do that, we need to click on this pencil symbol.

Open Content Generic Dashboard

And this is going to open up our content generic dashboard.

First thing that we need to do is click on this lock for editing button.

That means that nobody else who might be editing our website would be able to access this content

at the same time.

Edit Content

And now I can take whatever actions I might like to actually edit this content.

Let's say for example, I want to remove this last row of text on the page.

Save or Publish

Now I need to take an action to either save or save and publish my content.

If I saved my content, it's going to save this content to the backend and keep this

Release Lock

content locked.

For my purposes, if I'm not going to take any other actions to actually publish this

content at this time, I need to also click on this release lock button so that anyone

else on my website who is making edits to the site can access this content.

Save Publish

Now let's say for example, I'm going to make edits to this page, which I've already ... we'll

assume that I've already done that.

And then I want to take the action to save and publish my content.

I'm going to click on that button.

Lock Page

And you're going to notice that it automatically locked my page because I am pushing this content

live onto my site.

In order to check to see that that actually happened, I need to click the X button here

to close out of my container window and then I can select for save and publish for my web

Publish Page

page.

Those are two actions that you need to take.

You need to save and publish your container, and then you also need to save and publish

your page.

And that then unlocks this page that you also locked at the beginning of the process.

And that's how you lock and unlock your container to make edits to it.