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.
- Mark as ready
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Flag in-progress content as done, making it eligible for publishing. Part of the publishing state machine, and documented under Workflow.
- 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 Descendants are unpublished along with the selection.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
The publishing state machine — invalid, in progress, ready, and the publish states — is documented under Workflow. Request publishing (the review/approval handoff variant of Publish) is a kind of issue — see Publish requests. Permanent delete (from the archive) and restoring archived items are on the Archive page. The Create task entry point is documented under Issues.