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This article explains how to manage the content items and images that appear on the main Search page in Pangea CMS is a Content Management System (CMS) designed for online journalism. Learn more..
The Search page is the first page that you see when you open a site in Pangea CMS. To open it from another page, click Search in the primary navigation.
Run a search
To choose what you want to find, select a tab in the left panel:
Content: Find content items (such as articles and videos).
Image: Find images that users have uploaded to Pangea CMS.
The search filters in the left panel control which items appear in the search results. To change the search results:
To start with the default search filters, click Clear (optional).
Select the search filters you want to use.
Click Search.
The search results now show only the items that match your search filters.
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This section describes actions that are available for content items in the search results.
If an item has many buttons, some buttons are hidden. To see all the buttons, click More (…).
NOTE: Available actions depend on the content type, the publication status of the item, which website created the item, and your user group. Actions that create, change, or delete content are only available for some user groups.
General actions
To open the edit page for a content item, click the Edit button or the item title.
For information about how to create and edit different types of content, see the following articles:
To open a published content item on your website, click the Live site button. The page opens in a new tab.
To make a copy of a content item, click the Make a copy of item button.
Copying creates a duplicate of the item with the 'Draft' status. The copy and the original are independent items. This means:
Changes to the original item do not affect the copy.
Changes to the copy do not affect the original item.
Copying is only available for some items.
NOTE: The Make a copy of item button looks the same as the Make a clone of item button. To check which option is available for an item, hover over the button to show its title. Each item has only one of these options.
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To make a clone of a content item, click the Make a clone of item button.
Cloning creates a duplicate of the item with the 'Draft' status. Unlike a copy, a clone stays connected to the original item for some settings. If these settings change on the original item, they also change on the clone.
Cloning is only available for published content that another website created. It is available for the following content types:
Text: Live blog
Multimedia: Audio clip, Document, Loop video, Video
NOTE: The Make a clone of item button looks the same as the Make a copy of item button. To check which option is available for an item, hover over the button to show its title. Each item has only one of these options.
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To see the version history for a content item, click the History button.
The History dialog shows details about each version of the item. The level of detail depends on the content type. For text content, you can see exactly which settings changed in each version.
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To copy the smart link for a content item to your clipboard, click the Copy smart link button.
Smart links help you share content in countries or regions where your main website domain is blocked. Visitors can use a smart link to access the content from these locations.
The Copy smart link button is only available for published content items on websites with an active A mirror site is a copy of your website on a different server. It has different URLs from your main website. Learn more..
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To see all posts from a live blog, click the See posts button.
The Search blog posts for dialog opens. To filter the list of posts in the dialog, enter keywords or set date filters. The following actions are available for each post:
To feature a post, click the star button. A featured post appears at the top of the live blog page.
To edit a post, click the Edit button.
To see the version history for a post, click the History button.
To see how a post looks on your website, click the Live site button. The page opens in a new tab.
To permanently delete a post, click the Delete button. This deletes the post from your website and from Pangea CMS. You cannot restore a deleted post.
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You can restore deleted content items. By default, deleted items do not appear in the search results.
To restore a deleted item:
In the search filters, select Include deleted content.
Click Search.
Find the item you want to restore. Then, click the Restore button.
The item is restored with the publication status it had before it was deleted.
In Pangea CMS, only one user at a time can edit a content item. If another user is editing an item in the search results:
The item has a gray background.
The Unlock and Read only buttons appear.
To check who is editing the item, hover over the Unlock button.
To open the item in read-only mode, click the Read only button. You can then view the content, but you cannot make changes. The other user can continue editing the item.
IMPORTANT: When you unlock an item, the other user can no longer save changes. They lose any unsaved work.
To unlock the item, click the Unlock button. You can then edit the item.
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This section describes actions that are available for images in the search results.
NOTE: Actions that change or delete images are only available for some user groups.
General actions
To see the details for an image, click the Image details button.
The Image details dialog shows the following information:
Caption: The default caption for the image.
Description: The internal image description (visible only in Pangea CMS).
Source: The organization or person that owns the rights to the image.
Published: The date and time when the image was uploaded to Pangea CMS.
Uploaded by: The Pangea CMS user who uploaded the image.
Size: The width and height of the image in pixels.
Modified by: The Pangea CMS user who last changed the image details.
Site: The website where the image was uploaded.
To see a short version of the image details, click the arrow in the image box. To show the short version for all images, enable the Show image details switcher above the search results.
To edit the details for an image, click the Edit button or the image title.
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To get the URL for the image, click the Full image button. The full-size image opens in a new tab. You can copy the URL from the address bar of your browser.
To see the version history for an image, click the History button.
The History dialog shows every change to the image details. For each change, you can see who made it and when.
To delete an image from Pangea CMS, click the Delete button.
NOTE: Deleting an image does not remove it from your website. The image still appears on pages of your website that already use it.
You can restore deleted images. By default, deleted images do not appear in the search results.
To restore a deleted image:
In the search filters, select Include deleted content.
Click Search.
Find the image you want to restore. Then, click the Restore button.
The image is restored.
Autosave items
Autosave helps you avoid losing your work if you leave the edit page before you save your changes. Autosave is available for the following content types:
When you create or edit a content item, Pangea CMS saves an autosave version every 60 seconds.
If you leave the edit page without saving (for example, if your browser closes), Pangea CMS keeps the most recent autosave version.
When you next open Pangea CMS, this version appears as an autosave item at the top of the search results on the Search page.
Only you can see your autosave items.
NOTE: If you leave the edit page by clicking one of the main action buttons in the bottom-right corner (such as Save, Publish, or Close), Pangea CMS does not create an autosave item. If you click Close, a dialog warns you about any unsaved changes before they are lost.
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