Managing Pages managing-pages
Learn how to manage the pages of your website in AEM including moving, copying, and deleting.
Access Privileges access-privileges
Your account needs the appropriate access rights and permissions to act on pages such as create, copy, move, edit, and delete.
If you encounter any problems we suggest you contact your system administrator.
Opening a Page For Editing opening-a-page-for-editing
After creating a page or navigating to an existing page using the Sites console, you can open it for editing.
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Open the Sites console.
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Navigate to find the page that you want to edit.
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Select your page by using either:
- Quick actions
- Selection mode and the toolbar
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Tap or click the Edit icon.
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The page is opened and you can edit the page as required. Depending on how the selected page was created, the Edit action will open the appropriate editor.
- Page Editor - For pages created with the AEM Page Editor
- Universal Editor - For pages created with the Universal Editor
Copying and Pasting a Page copying-and-pasting-a-page
You can copy a page and all of its sub-pages to a new location:
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Open the Sites console.
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Navigate to find the page that you want to copy.
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Select your page using either:
- Quick actions
- Selection mode and the toolbar
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Tap or click the Copy page icon.
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Navigate to the location for the new copy of the page.
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Select the Paste icon that became available.
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The paste dialog presents a summary of the paste transaction and the ability to:
- New Site Name: Change the pasted page’s name
- Paste Without Children: Omit the child pages of the selected page when pasting (by default child pages are pasted)
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Select the Paste button to confirm the paste transaction and create the new page(s).
beach already exists, a new page with the name beach becomes beach1.Moving or Renaming a Page moving-or-renaming-a-page
The procedure to move or rename a page is basically the same and both actions are handled by the Move Page wizard. With this wizard you can:
- Rename a page without moving it.
- Move the page without renaming it.
- Move and rename at the same time.
AEM offers you the functionality to update any internal links that refer to the page being renamed/moved. This can be done on a page-by-page basis to provide full flexibility.
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Open the Sites console.
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Navigate to find the page that you want to move.
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Select your page using either:
- Quick actions
- Selection mode and the toolbar
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Tap or click the Move page icon to open the move page wizard.
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The Rename step of the wizard provides you Information about the page including creation date, path, and number of direct references. From here you can either:
- Specify the name you want the page to have after it is moved, then select Next to proceed.
- Cancel to abort the process.
- The page name can remain the same if you are only moving the page.
note note NOTE If you move a page to a location where a page with the same name already exists, the system will automatically generate a variation of the name by appending a number. For example, if beachalready exists, a new page with the namebeachbecomesbeach1. -
From the Select Destination step of the wizard you can either:
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Use the column view to navigate to the new location for the page:
- Select the destination it by clicking the destination’s thumbnail.
- Click Next to continue.
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Use Back to return to page name specification.
note note NOTE By default the parent of the page you are moving or renaming is selected as the destination. 
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