Document Actions
Editing Hiding and Deleting Existing Pages
The last section described how to edit the Contact Us page. You should also edit, hide, or delete the following pages in the About Us section of your Plinkit site, since they initially contain meaningless placeholder text:
• Who We Are (the default page for the About Us folder)
• Your Library Card
• Library Services
• Supporting Your Library
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Note: The procedures given below can be used to edit, hide, or delete any existing standard content page in your Plinkit site. These procedures are discussed here in the context of the About Us pages because the About Us pages initially contain meaningless content that should be replaced, hidden, or removed as soon as possible. For information about expanding your site by adding completely new pages, see Adding a New Page to Your Site. |
Editing Pages
If you want to replace placeholder text or otherwise edit an existing page, follow the basic procedure described in Editing the Contact Us Page. Briefly, the procedure is:
1. Log in to Plinkit.
2. Navigate to the page you want to edit.
3. Click the edit tab.
4. In the Body Text area of the edit tab, edit the page content.
5. Click save.
Hiding Pages
In some cases, you may want to remove a page from public view temporarily. For instance, perhaps you intend to post your library card policies on the Plinkit site, but the policies are currently being revised. In this case, you could hide the Your Library Card page from public view until the policy is finalized. When you are ready, you can edit the hidden page and then make it available to the public again.
To hide a page from public view, you simply change its publishing state, as follows:
1. Log in to Plinkit.
2. Navigate to the page you want to hide from public view.
In this example, we will “hide” the currently published page called Supporting Your Library. We have navigated to this page, which is located in the About Us section of the site.
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Tip: We can tell that this page is visible to the public (i.e., that it can be viewed by users without logging in to Plinkit) because the state listed on the green title bar is published. Pages with a state other than published are not visible to the general public. |
3. On the green bar, click the published status indicator and then select retract from the drop-down menu.
A message at the top of the page confirms that the publishing state of the page has been changed, and the publishing state changes to public draft. The page title in the navigation portlet now appears in green, indicating that the page is not visible to the general public.
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Note: Materials in public draft state are visible to logged-in Plinkit users, such as staff members and Plinkit Editors. |
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Tip: When you are ready to republish a page, repeat this procedure to change the publishing status from public draft to published. See Adding a Message from Your Library Director for an example of how to publish a hidden item. |
Deleting Pages
In some situations, a page may become obsolete or, in the case of pages provided by your Plinkit Administrator, may not apply to your library. You can delete pages from your site that you do not believe you will use in the future.
To delete a page from your Plinkit site:
1. Log in to Plinkit.
2. Navigate to the page you want to delete.
In this example, a page called Our Volunteer Librarian Program is being deleted. (This is not one of the pages that comes with your default site. It was added so that we could show you how to delete pages. For information about adding pages, see Adding a New Page to Your Site.)
3. On the green menu bar, click actions and then select delete from the drop-down menu.
4. If you are certain that you want to delete the page you have selected, click OK in the confirmation pop-up window.
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Note: Before confirming the deletion, double-check your location by reviewing the main content area and/or checking the navigation portlet or the breadcrumb trail at the top of the page. The delete function, and the other functions on the actions menu in the green menu bar, apply to the currently displayed item. If you are viewing a folder, for instance, all of the items in that folder will be deleted if you select delete and then click OK in the confirmation dialog box. |
A message at the top of the page confirms that the page has been deleted, and the page no longer appears in the navigation portlet.
