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*** [https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/cant-edit-page-type-defaults-no-editt-button Other people] have had this problem too. Using a different computer didn't help. Switching to Chrome on an Android device didn't help.
 
*** [https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/cant-edit-page-type-defaults-no-editt-button Other people] have had this problem too. Using a different computer didn't help. Switching to Chrome on an Android device didn't help.
 
*** [https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/usage/cant-edit-page-type-defaults The solution here] worked, indirectly -- I gave "task permissions" to the admins group, and then the edit icon appeared, but only for Admin... and it keeps going away... but just re-saving the task permissions page seems to fix it long enough to get into edit mode. ([https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/usage/only-superuser-can-edit-page-template-output/ This post from March, 2017] is closer to what I'm experiencing; no solutions offered as of 2017-05-10.)
 
*** [https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/usage/cant-edit-page-type-defaults The solution here] worked, indirectly -- I gave "task permissions" to the admins group, and then the edit icon appeared, but only for Admin... and it keeps going away... but just re-saving the task permissions page seems to fix it long enough to get into edit mode. ([https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/usage/only-superuser-can-edit-page-template-output/ This post from March, 2017] is closer to what I'm experiencing; no solutions offered as of 2017-05-10.)
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*** (The above issue discussions were found by Googling for "concrete5 can't edit page type output" without quotes.)
 
** It keeps saying "publish the page" after setting the output default, but I don't see any option for doing that.
 
** It keeps saying "publish the page" after setting the output default, but I don't see any option for doing that.
  

Revision as of 11:56, 10 May 2017

About

concrete5 is free/open source software for managing content on a web site. It can be compared to Weebly, although pages are generated dynamically rather than statically.

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Notes

How to:

  • center an image: two methods
  • publish latest changes:
    • click on pencil (top left)
    • click on "Publish Page" button
  • make a horizontal navigation (menu) bar:
    • hover over the sitewide navigation area
    • click on the drop-down description
    • select "add block"
    • in the palette that appears on the left, look under "navigation" and drag an "auto-nav" tool over to where you want it (I think... something like that)
    • ...and then there was a semi-obvious tweak to get it to be horizontal rather than vertical, but I found it by poking around in the tool's settings
  • add a blog to a site: this explains how, with some caveats:
    • I had to create a sidebar-right template (I used the template icon which looks like it could have content on the left and a sidebar on the right)
      • post-facto update: I looked at the "Elemental" theme, clicked the "Templates" button on the same row, and got to a page which listed some stuff the theme needed to do, with a button at the bottom right which would do it. After clicking that button, new templates appeared including "Left Sidebar" and "Right Sidebar".
    • Under "Sets", there are now four types of Sets to which you can add; I chose "Collection" because that seemed closest to "Category".
    • When adding the Topic, I checked off only "Field available in advanced search." because that seemed closest to "Field available in Dashboard Page Search".
      • I also checked "[ ] Categories" because it wouldn't let me save without selecting a "Topic Default Parent Node", and that was the only one listed.
    • Modifying the default output settings didn't go as advertised. I had to create a new page to get the block palette to appear... but that doesn't seem to feed back into the output settings. Stuck here for now; further research needed.
      • Other people have had this problem too. Using a different computer didn't help. Switching to Chrome on an Android device didn't help.
      • The solution here worked, indirectly -- I gave "task permissions" to the admins group, and then the edit icon appeared, but only for Admin... and it keeps going away... but just re-saving the task permissions page seems to fix it long enough to get into edit mode. (This post from March, 2017 is closer to what I'm experiencing; no solutions offered as of 2017-05-10.)
      • (The above issue discussions were found by Googling for "concrete5 can't edit page type output" without quotes.)
    • It keeps saying "publish the page" after setting the output default, but I don't see any option for doing that.

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