Site Manager

The Site Manager is the primary tool for organizing and maintaining your website content. It provides several features for viewing your site structure, allowing you to easily locate content in your website. Some key tools include:

  • Content Search
  • Drag and drop node ordering
  • "Toggle-able" viewing of child content/nodes
  • "Quick-Edit" controls for editable items in the Site Mananger grid
  • User Permissions for all content
  • Version History

Click on Site Manager in the navigation on the left of Mura Admin to view and use the Site Manager.

Video Overview

 

Site Manager Page

The Site Manager shows a hierarchical view of the nodes (i.e. pages or sections) in your site. By default, the Site Manager displays the Home page and the first level of sub-pages. Clicking the "Arrow" icon next to a node with children will reveal the children of that node.

The "Add Content" Button (Plus Sign)

Mouseover over the "Add Content" icon next to any node or page within Mura CMS to add content to that section.

Title

The "Title" shows the Navigation Title of each node. Click the Title to edit a node or page.

Objects

The "Objects" column shows the current setting for the Content Object cascade of each node. Click on the the setting to edit the Object Cascade Inheritance setting for each node. Options include "Inherit, Start New Cascade, or Reject (Do Not Inherit)".

Display

The "Display" column shows the current display setting of each node. Options inlcude "Yes, No or a specific start and stop date and time".

Template

The "Template" column shows if a template has been assigned to a specific node. Click the setting or template icon to edit the layout template for a specific node.

Nav

The "Nav" column indioscates whether a node is being included in site navigation. Click the setting to edit it.

Buttons

To the right of each item in the Site Manager is a panel of buttons.  Each button performs a specific task.  Knowing each button's function is essential to using the Site Manager.

Edit Button Using this button, you can open a specific page for editing within the Edit Content page.
Preview Button The preview button allows you to view a page or file.
Version History Button You can view the page's version history by clicking this button.
Permissions Button This button will allow you to edit the page's permissions.
Delete Button The delete button will delete a specific page from the site manager.

Tooltips

Mousing over the speech bubble next to any label in Mura will display a "Tooltip" providing a brief explanation of the field or functionality.