To revise an iMIS content management website page by using the Easy Edit feature, log on to the website and click the Easy Edit icon. This enables the Easy Edit mode until you click the Easy Edit icon again to disable it.
When Easy Edit mode is enabled, you will see a variety of different Easy Edit icons appear in different content areas of each web page. Exactly which Easy Edit icons you see will depend on which content authority group permissions and Document system permissions you have on the underlying content records in the rendered web page.
If you have both Content Editor content authority group permissions in at least one content authority group to which you belong and Edit Document system permissions on the specific content record displayed in a content area:
- If the content record is used in the Main Content Area of an interior page, you will see an Easy Edit icon for the entire content record and for each content item in the content record.
- If the content item is included in a System content record, you will see no Easy Edit icons for the content items in the content record, but you will see one Easy Edit icon for the entire content record.
The graphic used for each Easy Edit icon might look different, depending on what type of content items are used in the content record. For example, the Easy Edit icon for a Content Html content item will look different from the Easy Edit icon for a ContentTaggedList content item. Moreover, the Easy Edit icon for the entire content record will look different from both of those.
If you are a member of at least one content authority group (regardless of your specific content authority group permissions) and you do not have Edit Document system permissions on the specific content record displayed in a content area, then if the content record is used in the Main Content Area of an interior page, you will see no Easy Edit icons for each content item in the content record, but you will see one Easy Edit icon for the entire content record.
In all cases where you can see at least one Easy Edit icon, you can hover your mouse pointer over an Easy Edit icon to see the name of its associated content item or content record.
The action that happens when you click on any of these Easy Edit icons depends on whether you have Edit Document system permissions to the underlying content records:
- If you have Edit permissions on the content record, you can edit the content item or content record directly:
- Click the Easy Edit icon to open an editor that is similar to what you see in Page Builder.
- Click Save and Publish, or click Save As if you have Edit permissions on the system content record.
- Use your browser's Refresh button to display the changes that you have made to the web page.
- If you do not have Edit permissions on the content record, you cannot edit the associated content record. Instead, the system displays a form that you can use to enter a content change request, which is distributed as follows:
- If the content record is workflow-enabled (a content authority group is assigned to its parent content folder), an email message is sent to the content record's content owner, and a change request entry also appears in the content owner's Page Builder task list as being assigned specifically to the content owner.
- If the content record is not workflow-enabled or simply has no assigned content owner, a change request entry appears in the Unassigned content change requests section of the Page Builder task list for every user who has Content Editor permissions in at least one content authority group to which they belong. Even though these users do not receive an email from the system, they can view the contents of your email message by clicking the envelope icon next to the change request in their Page Builder task list.