Managing Pages managing-pages
Learn how to manage the pages of your website in AEM including moving, copying, and deleting.
Access Privileges access-privileges
Your account needs the appropriate access rights and permissions to act on pages such as create, copy, move, edit, and delete.
If you encounter any problems we suggest you contact your system administrator.
Opening a Page For Editing opening-a-page-for-editing
After creating a page or navigating to an existing page using the Sites console, you can open it for editing.
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Open the Sites console.
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Navigate to find the page that you want to edit.
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Select your page by using either:
- Quick actions
- Selection mode and the toolbar
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Tap or click the Edit icon.
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The page is opened and you can edit the page as required. Depending on how the selected page was created, the Edit action will open the appropriate editor.
- Page Editor - For pages created with the AEM Page Editor
- Universal Editor - For pages created with the Universal Editor
Copying and Pasting a Page copying-and-pasting-a-page
You can copy a page and all of its sub-pages to a new location:
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Open the Sites console.
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Navigate to find the page that you want to copy.
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Select your page using either:
- Quick actions
- Selection mode and the toolbar
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Tap or click the Copy page icon.
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Navigate to the location for the new copy of the page.
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Select the Paste icon that became available.
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The paste dialog presents a summary of the paste transaction and the ability to:
- New Site Name: Change the pasted page’s name
- Paste Without Children: Omit the child pages of the selected page when pasting (by default child pages are pasted)
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Select the Paste button to confirm the paste transaction and create the new page(s).
beach
already exists, a new page with the name beach
becomes beach1
.Moving or Renaming a Page moving-or-renaming-a-page
The procedure to move or rename a page is basically the same and both actions are handled by the Move Page wizard. With this wizard you can:
- Rename a page without moving it.
- Move the page without renaming it.
- Move and rename at the same time.
AEM offers you the functionality to update any internal links that refer to the page being renamed/moved. This can be done on a page-by-page basis to provide full flexibility.
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Open the Sites console.
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Navigate to find the page that you want to move.
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Select your page using either:
- Quick actions
- Selection mode and the toolbar
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Tap or click the Move page icon to open the move page wizard.
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From the Rename step of the wizard you can either:
- Specify the name you want the page to have after it is moved, then select Next to proceed.
- Cancel to abort the process.
- The page name can remain the same if you are only moving the page.
note note NOTE If you move a page to a location where a page with the same name already exists, the system will automatically generate a variation of the name by appending a number. For example, if beach
already exists, a new page with the namebeach
becomesbeach1
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From the Select Destination step of the wizard you can either:
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Use the column view to navigate to the new location for the page:
- Select the destination it by clicking the destination’s thumbnail.
- Click Next to continue.
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Use Back to return to page name specification.
note note NOTE By default the parent of the page you are moving or renaming is selected as the destination. note note NOTE If you move a page to a location where a page with the same name already exists, the system will automatically generate a variation of the name by appending a number. For example, if winter
already exists,winter
becomeswinter1
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If the page is linked to or referenced, or has been published, then the details are listed in the Adjust/Republish step.
- You can indicate which should be adjusted and/or republished as appropriate.
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Tap or click Move to define when the move action should occur.
- Now will trigger an asynchronous job to move the page immediately.
- Later will allow you to schedule a date for the move to be processed.
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Tap or click Continue to complete the page move.
Asynchronous Actions asynchronous-actions
Page move actions are always processed asynchronously, allowing the user to continue authoring in the UI unimpeded.
The status of asynchronous jobs can be checked in the Async Jobs Status dashboard at Global Navigation > Tools > Operations > Jobs
Deleting a Page deleting-a-page
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Open the Sites console.
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Navigate to the page you want to delete.
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Use selection mode to select the required page, then use Delete from the toolbar:
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A dialog will ask for confirmation.
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Do you want to archive pages before deletion? - If checked, versions of the pages selected for deletion are created on deletion.
- Versions can be restored at a later date.
- Pages deleted without previous versions cannot be restored.
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Tap or click Cancel to abort the action or Delete to confirm the action.
- If the page has no references, the page is deleted.
- If the page has references, a message box will inform you that One or more pages are referenced. You can select Force Delete or Cancel.
Locking a Page locking-a-page
You can lock/unlock a page from either a console or when editing an individual page. Information about whether a page is locked is also shown in both locations.
Creating a New Folder creating-a-new-folder
You can create folders to help organize your files and pages.
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Open the Sites console.
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Navigate to the required location.
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To open the option list, select Create from the toolbar
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Select Folder to open the dialog. Here you can enter the Name and Title:
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Select Create to create the folder.
- Folders are also subject to the Page Naming Conventions when specifying the new folder name.
- Folders can only be created directly under Sites or under other folders. They cannot be created under a page.
- The standard actions move, copy, paste, delete, publish, unpublish, and view/edit properties can be performed on a folder.
- Folders are not available for selection within a live copy.