Overview On User Interface CMS Desk

On the top of the website click Sign in to CMS Desk or else go through the following link 
http://<domain>/<virtualdirectory>/cmsdesk now you need to provide the user name and password.

Default user name & password :

The default user name is administrator, the default password is blank (no password).

Before publishing the website on the live server its highly recommended to change the password

After you log in, you can see a splash screen, which giving you some basic information.

Press the continue button now you will redirected to the following page:

Main section and features are present in the Kentico CMS Desk user interface :

•Site Manager - redirects you to Site Manager, the other part of the system's administration interface. This option is only available for global administrators.

•Main menu with Content, My Desk, Tools, Administration, E-commerce and On-line marketing tabs.

•Content tree that represents the site map of the website. It allows you to organize the site's structure or select a specific document for editing in the content section.

Site selection - this drop-down list is used to select the currently edited website. Only those websites that the current user can edit are available in the list.

•Current user - displays the name of the current user.

•Current version - version number of the Kentico CMS installation.

•Sign Out button - clicking this button logs you out of the user interface and redirects you to the title page of the live site. This button is only displayed if Forms authentication is used. When using Windows authentication, the link is not displayed.

•Content tree that represents the site map of the website. It allows you to organize the site's structure or select a specific document for editing in the content section.

•Document actions toolbar with buttons for creating new documents, deleting, copying, moving and sorting documents.

•View mode selection - allows you to choose between editing, preview, live site view and list view.

•Editing mode selection - you can choose to edit page content, design the page template, edit the document fields, product properties or document properties.

•Live Site - this action redirects you to the title page of the currently edited website, logged under the same user account that you used to log into CMS Desk. This is a more convenient way than using the Sign out button and logging in on the live site afterwards.

•WYSIWYG editor - allows you to edit text, change its formatting and insert graphics or other items. It is available for Editable regions on the Page tab, as well as when editing document fields on the Form tab.

•Page in editing mode - this is where you can view and edit the document selected in the content tree, in the mode selected in the view mode and editing mode toolbar.

 Site Manager and CMS Desk 

Content editors manages the content of a specific website alloed by the CMS Desk.Global settings are managed by the Developers and administrators, and also code and components that affect all websites can also use the Site Manager interface.

Editing On-Site

On the live website while browsing we can edit the page content directly, In addition to the two main administration interfaces, Kentico CMS also provides a way.Registered editors can access on-site editing mode by going to the http://<domain>/<virtualdirectory>/cmsedit URL, or by clicking the Edit page button displayed in the corner of pages.

On site editing mode with all actions can be done with CMS Desk interface.It simply provides an alternative way to edit websites.

This tutorial explains all operations in CMS Desk  it is recommended to first become familiar with CMS Desk and the general website content structure before using on‑site editing.




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