Online Communication Administrators

24-minute video: In-context editing

• Used to edit HTML Content Items only
• Used to edit HTML Content Items on the front side of the website (no longer have to click Edit Page).
• Locate the small circle in the upper right corner of the HTML Content Item; move your mouse over it and it changes to a pencil.  Click the pencil and the editing tool opens.

In-context editing quirks

When multiple HTML Content Items are stacked on top of each other in the same column on a web page. You will only be able to edit the bottom item unless you do the following.

• Select Edit Page.
• Hide the content items that you are not editing. Save and publish the page.
• Edit the remaining unhidden content item using the in-context editing tool.
• When edits are done and save, select Edit Page again.
• Unhide the content items that you previously hid. Save and publish the page.

Linking a document on a web page: Use the INSERT FILE tool and the INSERT/EDIT LINK tool

• Open the text editor on the web page where your document will be linked.
• Select the INSERT FILE tool from the toolbar.
• Upload your file to the File Manager.
• Close all windows without saving anything further. Your document has been uploaded and you will be returned to the text editor.
• Highlight the text that will link to the document.
• Select the INSERT FILE tool from the toolbar.
• Locate the file you uploaded and select it.
• Click insert.
• Look for the "open link in" pick list. Change the selection from "current window" to "new window."
• Save you work.