The Dashboard screen in the content management system (CMS)

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Last updated: 04 Sept, 2024 by Jo Tayler
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The dashboard gives you a snapshot of your pages and allows you to search for more.

You can return to the dashboard at any time by selecting Dashboard in the header menu.

Search content

You can search for any page you have access to.

Enter your search term in the provided field. Before searching you have the option of refining your search by:

  • content type

  • specific site or section.

Select 'Search' or hit 'Enter.

This will direct you to the search results page.

Your pages

This section allows you to create new and view existing pages.

Adding new content

To create a new page, select '+ Add content.' This will direct you to a template options page. For more on this, visit Create a new content page.

Viewing existing content

All existing pages you have created or edited are listed in this section. For each page, you can view:

  • 'Title' – page titles

  • 'Type' – page template types

  • 'State' – whether the pages are published or not

  • 'Updated' – the date the pages were last updated

  • 'Sites' – the sites or sections the pages can be viewed on

  • 'Operations' – a list of actions you can complete on each page

You can also filter your pages by some of these options.

Watch a video about the dashboard

https://youtu.be/dS9H7yx4m3k

Hello and welcome to the Single Digital Presence Content Management System. 

Today I’m going to show you how to login and use the dashboard. The content management system usually works best in the Chrome browser.  

You’ll usually be going off to the url http://content.vic.gov.au  

The format of your username is probably going to be your first name dot surname, or it could also be your email address. You need to pop that in and your password and select login. 

This is the first screen that you’ll see when you login to the Drupal Content Management System.  

By default, when you scroll down, you’ll see pages that you’ve created or edited. 

The other thing you’ll be able to do in this view is you’ll be able to search for a page by keyword or content title, the content type that it was created in, or by a site or a site section which is part of this content management system.  

For example, if we want to get really specific, I know that I have a number of pages within the content management system with The Orange Door in the title. I know I have some landing pages set up with this in the title and this particular page will probably be tagged to the family violence reform section. If you filled out all of those fields, you could narrow it down, and then click search. 

You’ll then be able to see all of the pages with The Orange Door in the title, with family violence reform as a site section and landing page as a content type, and then, I’ll be able to select edit to edit a page.Â