Overview

The Sitemap View  shows the structure of your website, to help you see how your pages are connected. From here you can quickly rename and re-order, create and delete items or, navigate around your school's website.  You can also find archived items, which cannot be found in the navigation menus until re-published.  

Prerequisites

1. You must be an Administrator to create, rename and reorder pages. 
2. Publishers and Writers can only view the sitemap.

Accessing the Sitemap view

1. Select the Home Tab on the Admin Bar.
2. Select Sitemap View.
3. Locate the item in Sitemap View. 
4. You can expand the tree view to explore the sitemap, and select Visit to open the selected page.
   
   

Identifying different types of content

You will notice that different types of content have different icons to help you find them easily, for example:

1. Standard pages use a page icon.
2. Calendar views use a calendar icon.
3. News sections or News articles use a newspaper icon.
4. Blogs use a diary icon.
5. Galleries and Albums use a picture frame.
6. Forms use a form icon.
7. Archived articles have a yellow folder icon.

Visiting an item from your sitemap view

Select the item you wish to visit from the tree-view and then select Visit:

Reordering the pages on your sitemap

1. Select and hold an item in Sitemap View.  Drag and drop the selected page in its new position in the sitemap.
2. You will be prompted with a confirmation message and the page's position will be immediately updated.

News articles cannot be moved to another category. The same is also true of photo albums, album images and galleries.

If you have set up any links redirecting users to this page or item, those links will continue to work after the move.

Creating content items

To create a new item of content from the Sitemap View:

1. Select Start Edit:
   
2. Right-click on the page you want to add an item beneath then select Create:
   
3. Select the type of content you wish to create, for example, Page:
   

The new item will be created and immediately saved. 

You can rename the item or select Visit to begin adding content to the item you have created. 

Deleting content items

Items can only be deleted when they have no sub-items beneath them.

To delete an item in the Sitemap View:

1. Select Start Edit:
   
    
2. Right-click on the item you want to delete and select Delete:
   
3. When prompted, select Delete to confirm:
   

If Delete is greyed out, the page you're trying to delete is likely open in another browser tab. Make sure that the page is closed in all tabs. Navigate to your homepage, double-check that no other tabs have the page open, and then try deleting it from the Sitemap View.

Renaming content items

From within the Sitemap View:

1. Select Start Edit:
   
2. Right-click on the page you want to change and select Rename:
   
3. Enter the new name for the page:
   
4. Select elsewhere on the page to save your changes immediately.

Duplicating pages and forms

From within the Sitemap View:

1. Select Start Edit:
   
   
2. Right-click on the page or form you want to duplicate and select Duplicate:
   
3. When prompted, select Duplicate to confirm the duplication:
   

The duplicate item is created. You can rename it, move it, and visit the item to make changes.

Hiding an item in Sitemap View  

You can hide a page so that it does not appear in the visible navigation on your site by moving it to the hidden Hidden Area in your website using the Sitemap View. 

Avoid storing private or personal information in the Hidden Area or anywhere on your website. There is a possible risk of external access to the page through search engines. If you've shared a link to the page in the past, Google may have the link stored on their servers. Consequently, if someone searches for the page, Google may inadvertently give them direct access using the old link.

If you are in doubt, consider either archiving an item or creating a password-protected secure page.

If you are creating a new page, or know that you have never created a link to the page, follow these instructions to hide it in the Hidden Area:

1. From the Sitemap View expand Home to find the Hidden Area:
   
2. Navigate to the page you'd like to hide. 
3. Select and hold the page. Drag and drop the selected page into the Hidden Area.

The page is now hidden. It can only be accessed through the Sitemap View. 

You can use the Sitemap View to move the page back to its original location when you're ready for the page to be viewable again.