The Right Click Context Menu

What is the Context Menu?

The openCMS context menu is accessed when you right click a file or folder within the openCMS work place.  It has a variety of functions some of which change depending on the context. Here you see the basic context menu.

Lock: Used to lock, unlock or steal a lock on a file or folder. Grants you owner ship of the file while you are using it.  Locking a file shows everyone that you are using the file and to not edit it while you are using it.

Edit Page: This option can be used to bypass the direct edit step and edit the file inside of the workplace.  It also is the exclusive way to edit structured content.

Copy: This option will let you copy a single resource or entire folder as a new resource or sibling.

Rename/Move: This lets you rename or move a folder or resource to a new location.

Delete: Allows you to delete a folder or file.

Relations: See Below

Permissions: This is an administrator function and can not be used by others.

Change Navigation: This option allows you to change the nav text.

Advanced: See Below

History: This will allow you to retrieve past published versions of the resource at the  expense of deleting the current version.

Properties: This allows you to edit the title, nav text, description and key words of a resource.

Relations

Link relation to ... : Lists files that this file links to.

Link relation from ...: Shows files that this file is linked from.

Show siblings: If there are siblings to the file, this option will list them and their locations.

Assign Categories: This is unused.

Advanced

Edit source code: Allows you to edit the source code that controls a page.

Touch: Marks a page as if it has been edited.

Availability: Admin Use

Secure/Export: Admin Use

Change type: Allows you to change the type of the file; E.G. a folder to an image gallery.