Views in OpenCms

To set up a website with OpenCms involves a variety of different tasks, tasks usually performed by various people with different focus. Different tasks demand different specific user interfaces. OpenCms provides these interfaces. We describe the views and editors that are available in OpenCms.

Page & sitemap editing

The page editor

Viewing a page offline, you see the page editor. It allows to add, arrange and edit contents on a page and provides access to all necessary user tasks.

The sitemap editor

Add new pages to your site, move pages, change properties, create or remove sub-sitemaps, and even more ...

Editing content

The form-based editor

The content editor is a widget-based editor for editing multilingual (XML) content. Learn how to use the editor.

The inline editor

OpenCms allows to edit content, in particular text, inline as in usual word processors. We explain how inline editing works.

The traditional workplace views

The traditional workplace

The tradtional workplace is the powerful "back office" of OpenCms. Here template developers and system administrators are at the right place. For other users, the ADE views will be the places to work in.