Actions
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Actions are the verbs editors use day-to-day on content — creating, editing, moving, publishing, and so on. They are available from three consistent places:
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The context menu that appears when right-clicking an item in the Navigator.
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Keyboard shortcuts — see the Keyboard shortcuts reference for the full list.
Whether a given action is shown, enabled, or disabled depends on two things: the selection (what content is currently selected) and the user’s permissions on that content.
In this chapter
- New
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Create a new content item via the New Content dialog — either by picking a content type or by uploading a file.
- Edit
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Open one or more selected items in the Content Editor.
- Duplicate
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Make a copy of the selected content (optionally including its children).
- Move
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Relocate content to a different parent in the tree, preserving children and permissions.
- Sort
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Configure how child items of the selected content are ordered in the Navigator and on rendered pages.
- Preview
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Open the rendered page for a site or page content in a new browser tab.
- Publish
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Push content from the draft branch to master so it becomes available online. Covers the publishing wizard, scheduled publishing, and publishing with dependencies.
- Unpublish
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Remove published content from master. Descendants are unpublished along with the selection.
- Delete
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Remove content from the active tree. Deleted items are moved to the Archive, preserving descendants and version history so they can be restored.
Related reference
Mark as ready and the publishing state machine are documented under Workflow. Request publishing (the review/approval handoff variant of Publish) is a kind of issue — see Publish request. Permanent delete (from the archive) and restoring archived items are on the Archive page. The Create task entry point is documented under Issues.