Settings tab in CMS Lite

The title field is a mandatory field. It is displayed as the title of the page.

• It has a limit of 256 characters
• Make your page title meaningful. The page title forms part of the metadata which in turn is used by search engines

The following characters may not be used in the Title or Nav Title fields: 

• greater than/less than ( >  or  < )
• vertical pipe ( | )

The navigation title field is a mandatory field. It is displayed in the left navigation of the web browser.

The navigation title may be the same as the Title or a short descriptor, but it should contain at least one of the same words as the Title.

• It has a limit of 256 characters
• The navigation title is does not form part of the metadata

The following characters may not be used in the Title or Nav Title fields: 

• greater than/less than ( >  or  < )
• vertical pipe ( | )

The page path is a mandatory field. It forms the human readable URL (HRU) which is displayed in a web browser.

• When a new page is created, or an existing page is cloned, the Nav Title will default to "new-page-x" or "existing-page-title-clone-x", where x is a unique integer that will automatically increment by one.
• Once you have updated the Nav Title field, copy the Nav Title value into the Page Path field.
• When the [Save] action is selected, system validation will ensure the value is unique and usable in the URL’s browser location bar.
• Only alpha-characters, numbers and dashes (a-z, 0-9, -) are valid characters.
  • All others (e.g.: à, ç,  &, ., _, ) will be replaced with a - (dash)
  • All capital alpha-characters will be replaced with lowercase.

The Page Path can be used to shorten the HRU. For example:

• Before: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education/kindergarten-to-grade-12/teach/training-and-professional-development/become-a-teacher-in-a-b-c-offshore-school/
• After: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education/k-12/teach/training/offshore/

If you have updated a Page Path field after the page has been published, republish the page to reflect the new HRU.

This unique identifier (GUID) is automatically generated when a page is created or cloned and is tied to the Page Path.

If the page path is updated or the page is moved, links will not be broken.  

The page language section is used to define which language the page is displayed in.

Only hard-coded labels found within the body of content (including the supplemental content boxes) will change to the language selected. The labels and links found in the header and footer area are NOT translated.

To ensure quality and accuracy, all foreign language content should be provided by an official translator, and not obtained from an auto-translation service.

The page status indicates if the status of the page is:

• Not Published: Never been published to the Production web server. Page may only be viewed on the Quality Assurance (QA) web server
• Published: Has been published to the Production web server at least once
• Unpublished: Has been published to the Production web server at least once and has subsequently been unpublished

Most recent date that the page was locked, either by invoking the [Lock] action or the [Save] action. The field is cleared when the [Unlock] action is invoked.

Once a page has been successfully published to the Production web server, the Locked Date/By fields are cleared

This section shows the IDIR account of the current person to lock the page. The page is locked when a person uses the [Lock] or [Save] action. The field is cleared when the [Unlock] action is used.

Once a page has been successfully published to the Production web server, the Locked Date/By fields are cleared

Most recent date that the page was moved. Moving a page will not impact the Modified Date.

Moving a page within the same parent structure will not be recorded in the History tab.

IDIR account of the last person to move the page. If the page is currently being modified by another user, an email notification of the move will be sent to them.

Moving a page within the same parent structure will not be recorded in the History tab.

If selected,  the Nav Title is hidden in the left side navigation in a web browser.

This does not hide the page in the Content Navigation Pane.

If selected,   the left side navigation will not appear on this page.

Visitors to the page will only be able to navigate to parent using the breadcrumb. This page will still display in the Content Navigation Pane.

If selected, , the content will not be found by search engines.

Do not use the Exclude from Search Engines? option to publish private or classified information, as per the Terms of Use.