Getting around in OmCore

Preview mode

1. Preview mode allows you to view a preview version of the front end of your website.
2. When viewing your website in preview mode preview options are displayed at the top of the screen, allowing you to preview currently unpublished content on your webpages to see how your website will look once they're published.

Accessing preview mode

1. Preview mode is accessed using the Preview link in the user panel, located in the top right corner of the interface.
2. When accessing preview mode, the page of your website that loads initially depends on your current activity in OmCore. For example, using the preview link when a page is selected in the site tree will load the selected page.
3. The following activites will affect the page which is loaded by the preview link:
   1. Selecting a page in the site tree.
      The selected page will be loaded.
   2. Selecting a page's content in the site tree.
      The selected content's page will be loaded. An anchor link will be targeted so that the browser will scroll to the position of the selected content on the page.
   3. Loading a module.
      If any of the module's content types have been inserted onto a page of your website, then a page containing the module's content will be loaded. For example, when viewing the Blog module in OmCore, the page containing the News blog content type will be loaded.

The preview options panel

1. When viewing your website in preview mode, the preview options panel is displayed at the top of the page.
2. The preview options panel contains options which allow you to view different versions of your web pages by toggling which content, in their different published states, is presented on your page.
3. The 'Exit preview mode' button will remove the preview options panel and displaying the live version of the currently displayed page.
4. To hide the visibility of the options panel use the [-] link to the left of the options panel. When hidden, use the [+] link displayed in the top left hand corner of the page to show the panel again.
5. Each of the options relates to one of the different published states:
   1. Unpublished
      1. Content whose published option is set to 'No'.
      2. Unpublished content is presented with a red dotted border.
   2. Pending
      1. Published content whose valid from date has not yet been reached. I.e. content which is set to appear on your website in the future.
      2. Pending content is presented with a green dotted border.
   3. Expiring
      1. Published content whose pending date has been reached, so it is now published on your site, but that is scheduled to expire in the future.
      2. Expiring content is presented with an orange dotted border.
   4. Expired
      1. Published content whose valid to date has now elapsed, and so the content does not now appear on your website.
      2. Expired content is presented with an blue dotted border.
   5. Show borders
      1. All of the previous options, if selected, present their content within a colour coded border.
      2. Unselecting this option will hide the coloured borders showing a true representation of how the content will look on the page.