The Sites Console sites-console

Learn how to use the Sites console to manage and organize your AEM pages.

Orientation orientation

The Sites console allows you to view your page hierarchy.

It offers different views and toolbars to help you manage and organize your pages.

Console Toolbar console-toolbar

The console toolbar is always present on the console and helps you orient yourself in your content and to navigate the content.

Side Panel Selector side-panel-selector

The side panel selector allow you to show additional information about the selected item in the console.

The options presented depend on your current console. For example, in Sites you can select content only (the default), the timeline, references, or filter side panel.

For more information about the side panel, please see the document Sites Console Side Panel.

Breadcrumbs breadcrumbs

Situated in the middle of the rail, and always showing the description of the currently selected item, the breadcrumbs allow you to navigate through the levels of your website.

Tap or click the breadcrumb text to display a drop-down listing the levels of the hierarchy of the currently selected item. Tap or click an entry to jump to that location.

Select All select-all

Tapping or clicking the Select All button selects all of the items in your current view of the console.

When you have selected all items, the count of the items selected is displayed at the top-right of the toolbar where the Select All button appeared.

You can deselect all items and exit selection mode by:

Create Button create-button

The Create button allows you to add new pages to your site as well as create additional Sites objects such as Live Copies or Launches.

Once clicked, the options displayed are appropriate to the console/context. The most common are:

See the links to these features for details on how they function.

Views and Selecting Pages views

The Sites console offers three different views of your content hierarchy. You can view, navigate through, and select (for further action) your resources with any of the available views.

The View icon at the far right of the AEM toolbar indicates the current view selected.

Tapping or clicking it allows you to select a different view.

You can switch between column view, card view, and list view. In the list view it also shows the view settings.

Viewing, navigating, and selecting are each conceptually the same across all views, but have small variations in handling, dependent on the view you are using.

Selecting Resources selecting-resources

Selecting a specific resource is dependent on a combination of the view and the device:

Selecting Example selecting-example

Column View column-view

The column view allows for visual navigation of a content tree through a series of cascading columns. This view lets you visualize and traverse the tree structure of your website.

Selecting a resource in the leftmost column will display the child resources in a column to the right. Selecting a resource in the right column will then display the child resources in another column to the right and so on.

Card View card-view

In card view, each item at the current level in the hierarchy is displayed as a large card.

Card view also offers quick actions for the items such as selection and common actions such as edit.

You can navigate down the tree by tapping/clicking on cards (taking care to avoid tapping the quick actions) or up again by using the breadcrumbs in the header.

List View list-view

List view provides information for each resource at the current level in a list.

By default the Name column is shown, which makes up part of the URL for the page. In some cases the author might need to access pages that are in a different language and seeing the name of the page (which is usually unchanging) can be of great help if the author does not know the language of the page.

Select the vertical selection bar and drag the item to a new position in the list.

Actions Toolbar actions-toolbar

Whenever a resource is selected, you can carry out various actions on the selected item. These actions are displayed in the actions toolbar.

The actions toolbar only appears when a resource is selected in the console. The action available in the actions toolbar change to reflect the actions you can take on the specific items selected. The most common actions are:

Due to the space restrictions in some windows, the toolbar can quickly become longer than the space available. When this happens additional options appears. Clicking or tapping on the ellipsis (the three dots or …) opens a drop-down selector holding all remaining actions.

Create Action create-action

The create action offers similar options to the Create toolbar button for creating new pages and similar items.

In addition, it offers the ability to create page-related actions.

Templates

You can easily see which template the page is based on when selecting the page in either Column view or List view.