Direct Edit: a quicker way to edit your CMS content

Some of you may have noticed the appearance of a new 'Direct Edit' link in the footer of your web pages in the last few days. If you've not tried it yet, Direct Edit is a really quick way to make edits to your web content, especially when you just need to make small changes.

The link to Direct Edit is available from the bottom right of every page published from the CMS

When you're looking at a published page, selecting the Direct Edit link will take you into the CMS (you'll be asked to login if you haven't already done so) with a view that might be new to you. Instead of the usual listing of your content items, you'll see a view of the page with dotted red lines around each of the content items.

In the Direct Edit view each of your content items will have a dotted red line around it

When hovering over any of the dotted boxes an option will appear to modify that content, which will let you make your changes. You can also delete content items and see the page history from within Direct Edit.

Direct Edit works with most of our templates, but not all of them just yet. If a template can't be used in Direct Edit then you won't see the red dotted lines around that particular content item.

The other link in the footer is 'Modify', which takes you the same view you would see when selecting 'Modify content' from within the CMS (we renamed this from 'Edit' to clarify the difference between this and Direct Edit).

Happy editing!