Sites

Create and manage sites in your Modern Campus CMS account. Sites are a division of content within Modern Campus CMS. For your site to be visible on the web, ensure you have configured a web domain and server outside of Modern Campus CMS.

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Create a new site, as follows:

1. Navigate to Setup > Sites.
2. Click +New.
3. Enter the site settings.

You can also create a new site using Site > Clone, which copies the site record with or without cloned files, as appropriate.

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Edit the access to a site, as follows:

1. Navigate to Setup>Sites.
2. Click the More Actions  menu for the site.
3. Click Edit.
4. Click
   • Site.
   • Site Access.
   • Asset Access.
   • Tag Access.
5. Edit the settings, as needed.
6. Click Save.

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Publish a site to the live website, as follows:

1. Navigate to Setup>Sites.
2. Click the More Actions menu for the site.
3. Click Publish.
4. To publish all files on the site, click Publish Site.
   • Options are the same as those for publishing folders. Does not publish assets, RSS items, or other content types not in the file structure.
5. In the "Publish" box, click Publish.
6. To create an index of the site, as an XML file, and save it to the production server, click Publish Sitemap.xml.
   • Pages and files are included in the index if published from staging to production (as opposed to being directly uploaded to production). Exclude pages and folders from the sitemap via access settings.
   • Regenerating the sitemap overwrites the existing XML file.
7. In the "Publish Sitemap.xml" box, click OK.

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Scan to synchronize the files on your staging server with the system database.

To prevent errors or discrepancies, ensure users are not editing or moving pages while you scan your site. Scanning your site for the first time can take one to two hours for a large site. Subsequent scans are quicker.

1. Navigate to Setup>Sites.
2. Click the More Actions menu for the site.
3. Click Scan.

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Clone

Create a clone of the site.

Save Version

Backup the entire site to the versioning system, adding a new version of each page to the version list of each page.

1. Navigate to Setup>Sites.
2. Click the More Actions menu for the site.
3. Click Site> Save Version.
4. In the Confirm Site Commit box, type a version description.
5. ClickOK.

Initialize

Add a DirectEdit button to all pages on the staging server. Publish the site to add the DirectEdit button to files on the production server.

1. Navigate to Setup>Sites.
2. Click the More Actions menu for the site.
3. Click Site> Initialize.
4. Click OK.

Purge Staging Binaries

Remove binary files (images, PDFs, etc.) from the staging server, if binary management is enabled for your site. This does not affect or delete any files on the production server.

1. Navigate to Setup>Sites.
2. Click the More Actions menu for the site.
3. Click Site> Purge Staging Binaries.
4. Click OK.

Export as ZIP File

Export all files on the staging server as a ZIP file to your computer. The ZIP includes previous versions of files, but not access settings, directory variables, RSS feeds, tags, reusable content, or other items.

1. Navigate to Setup>Sites.
2. Click the More Actions menu for the site.
3. Click Scan > Dependency Revert.
   • After the ZIP exports, click Scan > Dependency Scan to restore the dependency tags.
4. Click Site> Export as ZIP File.
5. In the Start New Export box, click Download Last Export File or New Export.
   • When you export site files, a link to the export (ZIP) file will be available to download for 72 hours.

Delete

Delete the site from the database and site record (the staging server entry, files, and settings). This action doesn't delete files from the production server or any publish targets. This action is permanent.

Note: This action deletes assets created in this site, even if they were available for use on other sites.

1. Navigate to Setup > Sites.
2. Click the More Actions menu for the site.
3. Click Site > Delete.
4. In the Delete box, select the checkbox to confirm that you have moved assets to another site, as applicable.
5. Click Delete.
6. Type the word "delete" to confirm that you want to permanently remove the site and all staging files.