Back to Navigating Around the Colorado CMS Menus Video
welcome in this video we're going to do
a general overview of these menu options
here that appear at the top once you log
in now do note that depending on your
user role you may or may not see some of
these menu options and that's okay if
you're not sure you can check out our
user guides and we have information
online that'll show you sort of what
each user role can and can't do to get
things started you'll have this little
manage tab here at the top this
basically just toggles the secondary
menu open or closed so if you don't see
that secondary menu just click manage
you know it'll reappear this is where
you're going to go to go to your User
Profile you just click on that and then
click user or view profile from here you
can do things like view which roles have
been assigned to your user account which
might be useful if you're not quite sure
and you can also edit your user account
by clicking edit here and in the tab
section and you can do things like
update your email to move on if I click
manage here again I can go to my
homepage by clicking this 8 button here
that I'll always take you back to your
homepage no matter where you are at the
site and if you need to log out when
you're done you would just hover over
logout and click that and that will log
you out of your session if you want to
view the pieces of content that have
already been created on your site you
can click this guy here it will
basically show you about 95% of the
content on your site anything that's
related to a content type that being
like a basic page a landing page a news
article a jumbo slide something like
that those will appear here now
you'll see that there's actually a lot
of content on this page and I have
multiple pages with content and so if
I'm trying to find something specific
you can use these drop-down menus here
at the top or the search bar to search
for a specific piece of content just by
you know let's say I want to look for
all of the published basic pages on my
site I can select basic page I can
choose published and I can click filter
and it's going to show me only the
published basic pages on my site when
I'm all done I can click reset and it's
going to show me all the content again
also from this view you can take an
action on multiple pieces of content at
the same time so let's say I wanted to
delete this jumbo slide and this landing
page here probably not the home page
let's say this Colorado mountains page
here you would select a box then you
would choose whatever action you want to
take let's say delete in this case you
click apply to selected items and then
I'll ask you to confirm that one more
time I don't want to so I'll go ahead
and cancel let's say you want to create
a brand new piece of content what you do
is you hover over content and then
choose add content and you need to
select that piece of content here so
anytime you're going to create a new
basic page a new landing page a new
event for your event calendar that's
gonna be through here now when you're
creating something like a basic page you
have the option to save it as a layout
and so to view the layouts you've saved
you would go to content and then click
on layouts here and so this is your view
of all the layouts for the site
let's say you want to add a piece of
media whether that be a PDF document or
a video or an image if you hover over
content and choose add media then you'll
have the option to either let's say
upload a PDF I would choose file and I
would upload my PDF file or likewise if
I wanted to upload an image I had to go
to add media and select image and upload
my image file once those files are
uploaded you can actually view a similar
view like this for your pieces of
content you can view that
your files too if you click on this
files tab here which is also going to be
the exact same thing you'll get to if
you hover over content and choose files
this is just a list of all the different
files whether they're documents or
images or videos they'll all show up
here now you can also view video
separately if you choose this tab over
here and the media tab it might be a
little bit confusing with the files tab
but essentially if you're going to be
interacting with a let's say like an
image on your pages you're going to be
using your media library and so this
right here is essentially your media
library now if we move on here to
structure for those users who have that
particular user role you'll be able to
do things like create custom blocks and
view your custom block library edit your
menus your navigation menus or create
new menus for like your side nabs or
special landing pages or something like
that and then web forms so if i want to
view my custom block library i'd hover
over block layout and then choose custom
block library this is where all my
custom blocks are say my you know custom
Jumbotrons or footers things like that
and then if i go to menus and i click on
menus this is going to show me a list of
all the different menus that i have to
use on my site I can create new menus
here or I can edit existing menus like
my main navigation that appears across
all the pages on my site which is pretty
nice and then finally web form so if I
click on web forms they'll take me to a
list of all the web forms on my site
you'll probably see a bunch of example
web forms and those are just there one
that's when your new site is provisioned
for you and likewise there's some
templates here that you can use if you
if you need to use those
to move on under configuration you're
only really gonna use this if you're
going to create a redirect using a
custom URL to do that you would just
kind of hover over search and metadata
URL redirects and then add redirect and
then you can type in the fields here
which you know what your custom path is
going to be and where you want to point
that to lastly and if you want to view
which users are have been associated
with your site you won't want to hover
over people and click that make sure you
to ignore the add new user option you
don't really need to use that guy
there's a different process for adding
new users and you can check out our
video tutorial on how to do that but if
you want to view which users are on your
site or have access to your site you can
go here this is also going to be where
you're going to go if a new user is
created and you need to assign new user
roles to them you can search for a
specific user by either searching for
their user name or searching for their
email so you can see I can pull up my
user account there and you can also pull
up users by you know whether or not
they're active what kind of use a role
they have things like that you'll notice
here that a little back to site button
has popped up so I can click that
that'll take me right back to where my
site is take me out of the people menu
one last thing to show you before we're
done if you want to reorient where this
secondary menu appears there's this
little arrow that appears to the far
right side and so if you click that
that'll turn this into a side navigation
and so if you rather use your menus on
you know the side of the screen rather
rather than across the top you can do
that as well it's just really user
preference and that's that's how you use
the menus in the site hopefully you've
learned a little bit here and you can
feel more comfortable navigating around
your website