Settings Tab

You do not always want all the pages on a website to be included as options in the menu. If you clear the Display page in menus check box, the page will not be visible in the menu. This function may be suitable for forms or other pages that do not need to be present in menus but are instead accessed through links from other pages.

The Page’s name in web address field only needs to be used if you have chosen to use web addresses that reflect the website’s structure. Then the addresses in the address field will follow the structure of the website. Contact your systems administrator to find out what is applicable for your website. If you do provide an address in Page’s name in web address, EPiServer CMS will automatically create an address based on the name you have given the page. If you think it is too long and complicated, you can create a name for the page yourself.

It is possible to change the name afterwards, but bear in mind that a lot of people may have created a link to your page, and they won’t work any more if you change the name in the Page name in web address field. If you change the name of the page, the field and links to the page are not affected.

When pages are linked in EPiServer CMS, they are assigned an address that can prove difficult to remember and which you may want to avoid using in a marketing context. Simple address for this page allows you to create a link so that visitors can access the page using an understandable address. If, for example, you enter /products in the field, visitors can enter http://www.company.com/products in the address bar of their browser and jump straight to this page.

This function also works if you enter the name of the page after the website address. For example, if I have a page called News, I can enter http://www.company.com/news and come to the right page without having to enter a simple address. EPiServer CMS first searches pages that have a simple address. If it does not find a page with that address it will search on the name of the page. If several pages have the same name, the page found first will be displayed.

The sort order specifies how the pages are to be sorted in menus. When you select the sorting order, you control the order of all sub-pages below the page you are editing. Here, you can either select to sort by the date on which a page was created, changed or published in ascending or descending order. You can also select to sort alphabetically or according to the sorting index you have applied.

If you have chosen According to sort index as the sort order on a page, you must assign all its sub-pages a number, index, so that the system understands the order in which the pages should lie. The page with the lowest number is sorted so that it comes at the top of the menu. The standard number for all pages is usually 100. If you create a page that you want placed before other pages in the menu, assign this page a number lower than 100, perhaps 90. If you want it to be sorted after other pages, give it a number higher than 100, such as 110. It is always a good idea to work in at least 10s in case you should want to enter a page between two others in the future. In this way you can easily add in a page without needing to change the sort index of all the pages. Remember, the sort index is only used when you have chosen According to sorting index under Sort order on the parent page.

In EPiServer CMS, the date when pages are saved is used on a number of different occasions. One example of this is subscription, when the page is sent as part of a news item in a subscription package. If you have made minor changes to the layout or corrected spelling mistakes, you do not want EPiServer CMS to think the page has changed and include it in a subscription dispatch. In this instance, to let EPiServer CMS know that you have made extensive changes to the content of the page, you must select the Mark page as changed check box. The system will then include it in the next subscription dispatch.

Optional. In many cases, it is useful to be able to create a list of other pages, for example for listing news items or links. In such instances, a list is created containing all pages beneath a page in the structure. The list displays the name of the page, the puff text and a link to the page where you can read more. Selecting the button next to the box creates a listing. The Select page dialog is opened. Highlight the page from the underlying pages of which you want to fetch the listing from and select OK.

Optional. Once you have created a listing, it may not always be the case that you will want to display all the records in the list, for example when you are listing news items. In such instances, it may be appropriate to display only the five most recent news items. To do this, enter five in the Display number of pages in listing field. If no value is entered in this field, all pages will be displayed in the listing.

Optional. Here you have the option of adding a further listing of pages, which will be shown in the page’s right hand margin, just as this template is constructed.

Optional. Here you can specify the number of pages to be displayed in the secondary listing If you do not specify a value in the filed, all the pages in the listing will be shown, if you have specified a page from which to retrieve a secondary listing.

Optional. By selecting the Activate subscription check box, you give the visitor the opportunity to subscribe and to receive notification when any of the pages under the main page are updated or when new pages are added to the site. If for example you have a page for news with underlying news pages, subscribers will receive an e-mail message containing links to the newly created news pages. The user must have registered for a subscription on a special page to receive this information.

Optional. All pages that are created and published under a page marked Activate subscription, go out in the subscription letter. There are however occasions when you want to create a new page that you want to publish without it being sent out in a subscription letter. By choosing the Block subscription for this page option, you prevent the current page from being sent out in the next subscription letter.

If you want the page to be sent out in the subscription dispatch at a later date, clear the Block subscription for this page option, select the Mark page as changed option and click Save and publish .