Saving Pages

Introduction

There are two ways to save a CMS posting:

1. By clicking Save in the Edit Console, you can save the current state of your work to the server and continue to edit the posting. It is a good idea to save your work once every few minutes, to preserve your edits in the case of a lost connection.
2. If you click Save And Exit in the Edit Console, your work will be saved and you will no longer be in the Edit Window, and you will see the full Edit Console menu.

The first time you click Save or Save & Exit for a new posting, you will see a dialog box that asks you to specify a Name and Display Name for the posting. These two values are described below.

Name

This is the filename of your content. The general recommendations for naming files for the CMS are as follows:

1. The text should be all lowercase, no spaces or special characters, other than underscores and hyphens. Here is an example of a reasonable filename: test_file
2. If your page is intended to be the default page for the channel, name it: default
3. It is not necessary to put a file extension at the end of the filename, the system handles file extensions.

Display Name

This is the visible name of your content. The Display Name can have spaces, capitilization and other special characters.  The Display Name text will appear in several places:

1. In the page header of the published page.
2. In any dynamically generated navigation.
3. In the browser's page title area (ie. for bookmarks)

If you are working with exisiting pages, you may want to review the Editing Page Properties section of this documentation.