• Quick Start
  • Download and Install
  • Create a Site
  • Editing your Site
    • Edit Mode GUI
  • Manipulate Content
    • Edit Existing Content
    • Create New Content
    • Move Content in a Page
  • Preview and Publish your Work
  • Move Content Between Pages
  • Delete Content
  • Use a Content item in many places at the same time
  • Control the Rights
  • Managing Sites
  • More Detailed Publication
  • Going Further With Interactive Features
    • Insert a Google Map
    • Add a Poll

Edit Mode GUI

The Edit Mode GUI is divided in 3 parts

• The Toolbar (red overlay at the top of the page). The Toolbar provides access to the various Modes for the current page, plus global tools like publication, workflow, access to the Document Manager, the categories Manager, etc.

• The Selector (orange overlay on the left) provides several tabs to display content stored within Jahia and insert that content into the central panel.

• The Work plan (green overlay, the central panel) displays the page you’re currently editing.

As we’ve just left the Administration tools, the page displayed by default is the home page of the web site we have imported.

Important: the GUI adapts itself depending on the role(s) granted to the user. Using the root account, when you switch to Edit Mode, Jahia considers you like some kind of god, therefore all the buttons, menus and tools are displayed, which makes a rather heavy UI. But once the system is installed and set-up, it is rare to use the root account. This one should be reserved for complex administration tasks. Other roles like Editor, Editor in Chief, Reviewer and Translator allows access to the Edit Mode with lesser permissions, and then lighter interfaces.