Creating a basic page:

To create a basic page:

1. 1. From the Administration toolbar, click Create Content and then choose Basic Page. Alternately, you can click My Workbench and go to the Create Content tab
   2. Enter the following:
      1. • Title: Enter the title that will appear at the top of your page.
         • Body: Add text to your page by either:
           
           • Typing or cutting/pasting text directly into the WYSIWYG editor
           • Clicking the Source button in the WYSIWYG toolbar to edit the HTML code directly.
         • Tags (optional): Enter keywords that describe your new page's content. McGill's search engine will use these to categorize your page. See Tagging content in the WMS for details.
         • Notes: You can enter notes for yourself or teammates about the page here. You can also use this area to store alternative HTML code that you may want to place on the page at a future date (e.g., a special holiday greeting). Content in this field is not publicly viewable.
         • Language: By default, the language of the page is set to English. You can create a French version of an existing page by navigating to the page and clicking the Translate tab at the top.
         • Menu settings:
           
           • Menu link title: This is the name that will appear in the menu structure. It should be the same as your page title or a shorter version of that title.
           • Parent item: If your page is at the first level in the menu hierarchy, choose <Main menu>.  Otherwise, if it is in a lower level of the menu hierarchy, choose the menu item under which it falls. You can .
           • Optional: Set the Weight of the page if you want it to appear higher or lower in your menu structure, irrespective of alphabetical order.
         • Revision information: By default, each time you save the page, a new draft revision is created, and the author's username is logged in the Revision log message. You can modify this field to include comments about the revision, which can help you identify each draft from the Moderation tab. 

           Optionally, you can allow the revision to be Published immediately using the Moderation state dropdown list.

         • URL path settings (optional): By default, the URL of your page is created from the Menu link title. If you want your page to have a specific URL, e.g., www.mcgill.ca/it-mcgill/research instead of keeping the default, www.mcgill.ca/it-mcgill/research-at-mcgill, you can use the Custom alias field. When creating an alias, avoid the use of underscores. The underscore character often looks like a space when a URL link is underlined. Therefore, we recommend using a hyphen rather than an underscore when creating the alias. Certain path names (e.g., languages, modules, profiles, themes) are reserved system paths in the WMS and will not work as custom aliases.

           Note:  WMS Dashboard includes a report displaying any URL aliases that end in a number as these often indicate a duplicate page.  Delete the duplicate page to remove the number from the URL.

         • XML sitemap (optional): Your site's XML sitemap informs search engines about URLs on your website that are available for crawling. On the XML sitemap tab, you can specify the following:
           
           • Inclusion: URLs related to basic pages are included in your site’s XML sitemap by default.
           • Priority: The priority of the URL relative to other URLs on your site. By default, all URLs are given a priority of 0.5.
         • Scheduling options (optional): You can enter specific dates for when to publish and unpublish your item. For more information about scheduling, see Scheduling in the WMS.
      2. Insert images, files, or videos by clicking the Media Browser button on the WYSIWYG toolbar to upload or insert media from your existing library.
      3. Click the Save button once you have finished editing the page.

After you Save your draft, the Edit window closes, and you will see the page in the View draft tab. At the top of this window, you can see the current Revision state. You can also recognize if a draft is unpublished by its pink background color.

From this view, you may Publish the draft or put it into the Needs Review state by selecting the appropriate options in the Set moderation state dropdown list and clicking Apply.

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