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Finding Pages to Open in Editor Mode: How-To

How to Find a Page in the CMS

Note: there are web editor quick reference docs that will be made available to editors that will have the link to their unit’s root directory.  

It is recommended to keep one tab open for the editor, and one for the live page if you are unsure of how to navigate to your page to edit. In this instance we will search for and open the Human Research Protection program home page in editor mode.

For example, we’re currently on the HRPP homepage.  Take note of the URL in your browser's address bar:
https://www.research.vt.edu/sirc/hrpp/index.html

You will follow in the editor root directory for research.vt.edu everything to the right of www.research.vt.edu in the LIVE page’s URL (/sirc/hrpp/index.html). 

For the HRPP site, the directory structure from the research.vt.edu website root would be sirc > hrpp > and then you would find the desired page, check it off and left click "edit" from the upper toolbar to edit the index.html page.   

2. Once you’ve taken note of the URL structure, go to your editor tab. After going to the author link, clicking through to get to the research.vt.edu root, you will first left click "Scholarly Integrity and Research Compliance" (you'll see the name field is "sirc" - that is the URL parameter you saw in the URL example above.

A screenshot of editing area in Ensemble showing the research.vt.edu root with the Scholarly Integrity and Research Compliance page highlighted.

Scroll down to "Human Research Protection program". You'll see that the name field says "hrpp", as it did in the URL example above.

A screenshot of the SIRC root with the Human Research Protection Program page highlighted.

Left click the image to the left of the "Human Research Protection program". This will select the page.

A screenshot showing that the Human Research Protection Program has been selected, with the checkbox to the left of the page being checked off.

Click "Edit" to open this page in editor mode.

A screenshot showing the "Edit" button of the top toolbar being highlighted.

The page will now be opened in editor mode.  

More information on using components on a page.  

View the in-depth page editing tutorial.

Manually Opening Pages if Location is Known

This process will go through the steps of selecting a page and opening it in editor mode if you already know of its location.

Navigate to https://author.ensemble.vt.edu

Click on My Sites

A screenshot of the author.ensemble.vt.edu landing page, with the "My Sites" option being highlighted.

The websites you have edit access to will populate. Choose the site you want to edit (all units except OSP are using research_vt_edu).

A screenshot of the My Sites area showing all websites a user has access to, with the vertical scrollbar highlighted.

The websites you have edit access to will populate.

Choose the site you want to edit (all units except OSP are using research_vt_edu) by left-clicking the image/icon to the left of the site name title field.  An example is research_vt_edu (Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech) .  Now you will left click "Edit" in the menu at the top of the screen.

On the next screen, left click the "En" redirect page title to continue to your root directory.

A screenshot of the site root (this instance is Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech, which is highlighted).

Nexst, navigate to the page you want to edit.

Check off the page you want to edit by left-clicking the image/icon shown.

A screenshot showing the "This is a Test Page" being selected (by selecting the checkbox to the left of the page). The checkbox has been highlighted.

Click "Edit"

A screenshot of the "edit" option in the top toolbar being selected, which will open the editor mode for the "This is a Test Event" page in this example.

For information on editing a page, see the following tutorial.