How to Create a New Page

If you have already completed Cascade training and you have a live asset with which to work, please follow along using your real asset. If you are using this guide for practice, please always use the _playground site. Yes, it starts with an underscore. It is a test site specifically meant for practicing.

Follow these steps to learn how to create a new page in Cascade.

Step 1

Select the Site and Folder for Your New Page

Select the site and folder where you want the new page to be created (the example uses selecting the _playground site, and then selecting the websites folder).

Step 2

Add Content

Click the Add Content button.

Step 3

Select Page

Click Page. If you are working in a real site, you may have several folders display before the asset options. Select the folder for the correct area of the tool you are going to be creating the new asset in as this will create the correct navigation for you. For instance, if you are creating a new page for the Biology Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, you would select Biology here first, then Page.

Step 4

Page Name

Name your page. The example uses trainee1. Remember to follow the correct naming conventions!

Step 5

Placement Folder

Confirm that the Placement Folder is correct. Wherever you are making this will wildly change all of the criteria in this step. In the example, we are creating the new page in the websites folder of the _playground site. So, the Placement Folder should read "websites," and the breadcrumbs underneath should read _playground: /websites.

Step 6

Title

Title your page. Here, you can use capital letters and special characters again. The example uses Trainee 1’s Page as its Title.

Step 7

Display in Navigation

Under Display in Navigation, select the bubble for Yes. This will make the page display in the navigation on the front end.

Step 8

Navigation Title

Optional: Enter a shortened, alternative Title in the Navigation Title (optional) field. If this field is left blank, it will automatically inherit the Title. The purpose of this is to “save room” in the navigation, where there is limited real estate to list titles like, “The Department of Counseling and Marital & Family Therapy.” In this field, you could just use, “Counseling and Therapy.”

Step 9

Preview Draft

If you are working in a live environment, when you create a new page, you will keep it as a saved draft on your account until all the content for that page is ready to go live. Pages should not be published if they are incomplete or say, “Coming Soon.” Once your content is ready, click the Preview Draft button.

Step 10

Submit

Click the Submit button.

Step 11

Content Check

Click the Check Content & Submit button.

Step 12

Confirmation Checkmark

Correct any mistakes. Unless the system finds an erroneous spelling error, such as a person's name or acronym, you can just ignore it.

Step 13

Start Workflow

Click the Start Workflow button. On the _playground site, all workflows are automatically approved, but if you are working on a live site, you will have to wait until workflow is complete. You will notice that your email is receiving auto-generated messages for each workflow.

Step 14

Page Created

Once workflow is complete, your page should now be created. Depicted here is the example page made in the _playground site.

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