Navigating the CMS
On this page:
Main Navigation
When you log in to the upgraded CMS, you will be in the Navigation view. This view displays a link to your site and assets. From this screen, select one of the following:
- Sites: This icon provides access to your web content.
- Assets: This icon takes you to the Digital Asset Manager (DAM) where you can access your images and documents.
- User Profile: The top right-most icon along the black horizontal toolbar is the User icon, where you can set User Preferences.
The Navigation view can be accessed via the icon under the AEM Logo on the top left.
The User icon is in the black horizontal band, to the right.
The User Profile Menu
The default column view
The site navigation view Options tool
The Site dropdown shows you the content path that led to the page you last selected.
Site Navigation Options
Selecting the Sites icon takes you to the Sites view. You can navigate to your pages by selecting each page that you want to view sub-pages for. Depending on your navigation view setting, content will unfold horizontally across the screen in columns, card icons, or lists.
The following additional content navigational tools are available from this view:
- Options Tool: This tool is in the top left corner of the screen, under the horizontal black bar. It allows you to decide what you want to view on the screen.
- Adobe Experience Manager logo: Clicking or touching the text logo in the top left of the screen takes you back to the Main Navigation view.
- Site Navigation Dropdown: In the top center of the screen, under the black horizontal bar, the name of the last page you clicked or touched is displayed. Clicking the dropdown arrow shows you the path you took to get there.
Asset Navigation Options
Selecting
the Assets icon in the Main Navigation view takes you to the Assets
view. Click on the Files icon on the next screen to get to the folders
that you have access to.
The following navigational tools are available from this view:
- Options Tool: This tool is in the top left corner of the screen, under the horizontal black bar. It allows you to decide what you want to view on the screen.
- Sorting: Near the top right corner you can choose to sort the shown assets and folders in different ways convenient for you.
- Adobe Experience Manager logo: Clicking or touching the text logo in the top left of the screen takes you back to the Main Navigation view.
- DAM Navigation Dropdown: In the top center of the screen, under the black horizontal bar, the name of the last page you clicked or touched is displayed. Clicking the dropdown arrow shows you the path you took to get there.
You can choose to view DAM folders in a variety of ways.
The DAM Options tool expanded.
You can sort DAM folders.