Pages

Pages in your digital workplace allow you to collect and display information from other areas. Pages are not restricted to a single application and are entirely customizable using widgets. 

Pages also serve an architectural purpose, allowing you to organize areas in your digital workplace into a nested, multi-leveled structure in your Site Manager.

Sections in this article: 

• Features
• Add a page to your digital workplace
• Best practices

Features

In page editor

When editing a page, the following features and options are available:

• Set as a template: Use the current configured page to create a template and use it for other pages you build by selecting Set as template. Once selected, enter a Template Title and Template Description to identify the template later. 
• Show sub navigation: By default, pages do not have sub-navigation, but it is available for root-level pages by selecting Show sub navigation. This will make child items of the page, such as other pages and channels, appear in a navigation bar below the primary navigation. This option only appears for pages at the root level of a digital workplace.
• Add widgets: You can add any number of widgets to a page.
• Version History: The previous configurations of your page are saved. You view past versions of your page and revert to them if needed.
• Publish Page: Publishing a page makes it the live version visible on the site.
• Save As Draft: You can save a page you are working on as a draft version, which allows you to come back to it later or others to see and modify it before it goes live.
• Preview: You can select Preview to see what your current configuration will look like if published.

Add a page to your digital workplace

1. How you start depends on your role in the digital workplace:
   • Enterprise or workplace administrators go to the Control Panel and select Site Manager.
   • Space administrators go to the Space Administration Panel and select Navigation.
2. Select + Add on the Site Manager/Navigation page and select Page.
3. In the Add Page window, complete the following fields:
   • Template: Select an existing page template to apply it to this new page. 
   • Page Title: Enter a name for the page.
   • Location: Select where to place the page. You can only place pages under other pages or spaces. Only pages and spaces to which you have at least Read access are visible.
     1. Select the Location dropdown.
     2. Search for a page or space by its name. This search will return up to 100 results that match your search query. These results also display the locations above matching pages and spaces. 
     3. Select a page or space from the list of search results.
   • URL Identifier: Enter the URL pathname for the page. 
   • (Optional) Hide from navigation: Select to prevent the page from being shown in any navigation menus. 
4. Select Add to create the page.

After creating the page, configure the following:

• Access rules
• Title translations

Best practices

Hide your work in progress

When you are in the process of adding a page to an active digital workplace, hide the page from the Navigation bar. You can hide a page from navigation by editing the page:

1. Go to the page.
2. Select Actions and then Edit.
3. Select Hide from navigation and then Publish Page. Hiding the page prevents people from visiting it from the Navigation bar while you construct it. Users who know the URL of the page and have access to it will still be able to visit it. 
4. When the page is ready to be shared, you can unhide it by deselecting Hide from navigation and then Publish Page.

Initial access rules

When you first create a page, it will inherit any cascading, anonymous, and author access rules from the page or space above it. However, if you create this page at the root of your digital workplace:

• The page will be given the same cascading specific access rules as your digital workplace's current homepage.
• At the same time, the page's anonymous access rule will receive a value of No Access, while the author access rule will receive a value of Full Access.
• Since the specific access rules are placed on the page, not inherited, they persist even if you move the page to a different location. To change the access rules on a page, select Actions followed by Access to navigate to its Access page.