Editing Page Properties page-properties
Learn how to edit the properties of a page and change behavior of the page and how it is managed.
Where to Edit Page Properties where
You can edit page properties from a number of places in AEM.
Using the Sites Console you can also edit the properties of multiple pages at once.
From the Sites Console from-the-sites-console
When browsing your content in the Sites console, you can use the Properties button in the toolbar to edit page properties:
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Using the Sites console, navigate to the location of the page for which you want to view and edit properties.
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Select the Properties option for the required page using either:
- Quick actions
- Selection mode
- The page properties are shown using the appropriate tabs.
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Either view or edit the properties as required.
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Then use Save to save your updates followed by Close to return to the console.
From the Page Editor from-the-page-editor
When editing a page using the Page Editor, you can use Page Information to define the page properties:
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In the Page Editor, open the page for which you want to edit properties.
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Select the Page Information icon to open the selection menu:
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Select Open Properties and a dialog opens that lets you edit the properties, sorted by the appropriate tab. The following buttons are available at the right of the toolbar:
- Cancel
- Save & Close
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Use the Save & Close button to save the changes.
From the Universal Editor from-the-universal-editor
When editing a page using the Universal Editor, you can use the Page Properties icon to edit the properties:
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In the Universal Editor, open the page for which you want to edit properties.
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Select the Page Properties icon in the toolbar.
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The page properties window of AEM opens in a new browser tab just as if you were editing page properties from the Page Editor. The following buttons are available at the right of the toolbar:
- Cancel
- Save & Close
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Use the Save & Close button to save the changes.
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Return to the browser tab of Universal Editor.
Editing the Properties of Multiple Pages editing-multiple-pages
From the Sites console you can select several pages then use View Properties to view and/or edit the page properties. This is referred to as bulk editing of page properties.
You can select multiple pages for bulk editing by various methods, including:
- When browsing the Sites console
- After using Search to locate a set of pages
After selecting the pages and then clicking or tapping the Properties option, the bulk properties are shown:
You can only bulk edit pages that:
- Share the same resource type
- Are not part of a Live Copy
- If any of the selected pages are part of a Live Copy, then a message is shown when the properties are opened.
The bulk editing window is divided in half vertically:
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The left side is a list of the pages you selected for bulk editing.
- You can select/deselect the pages as necessary.
- By default all are selected.
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The right is a list of properties available for bulk editing.
- As when viewing properties for a single page, the properties are ordered under tabs.
- Properties that are available on all selected pages and have been explicitly defined as available to bulk editing are visible.
- If you reduce the page selection to one page, then all properties are visible.
- Only properties with a common value are shown.
- When the field is multi-value (for example, Tags), values will only be shown when all are common. If only some are common, they will only be shown when editing.
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Fields that are common, but have different values across the various pages are indicated with a special value such as the text
<Mixed Entries>.
You can update the values in the fields available on the pages you select. The new values are applied to all selected pages when you select Done. When the field is multi-value (for example, Tags), you can either append a new value or remove a common value.
Property Inheritance inheritance
If the page is based on a blueprint or otherwise inherits content from another page, inheritance is reflected in the Page Properties window for the individual field.
Inherited properties can not be edited. Tap or click the Cancel inheritance icon next to a particular field to break its inheritance.
Confirm the cancellation in the Cancel inheritance modal.
Once inheritance is cancelled for a field, it then becomes editable.
To reinstate inheritance, tap or click the Revert inheritance icon next to the field.
Confirm the reversion in the Revert inheritance modal.
Select Synchronize Page after reverting inheritance to update the field with the latest values in the blueprint. If you do not, the values will be updated the next time the LiveCopy is synchronized.