Logging in

To access the Umbraco Backoffice:

1. Open your web browser and enter your website domain name followed by /umbraco (for example: http://www.company.com/umbraco/). A login screen appears.

2. Enter your Email and Password provided by your system administrator.

3. Click Login.

Logging Out

To log out of the Umbraco Backoffice:

1. Select the profile picture in the top-right of the screen.

2. Click Logout.

The editor’s manual is a detailed user guide aimed at Umbraco editors for step-by-step instructions on performing everyday tasks with Umbraco.

Introduction

Umbraco is an information platform that allows you to quickly publish information onto a website without the need for any prior knowledge of web page editing. It is designed to be powerful and flexible enough to enable user's full control of their website content.

No special skills are required to create, publish, and manage web pages and related content with Umbraco. Any prior web page editing experience you may have might prove useful in terms of understanding what you want your website to do. Anything you can do using HTML can also be done in Umbraco.

The Umbraco platform can be utilized for all types of websites – from public websites to intranets and extranets, whether password-protected or not. It can even be used to manage multiple websites from a single Umbraco instance. Regardless of the type, authorization to edit them can be given to anybody you choose and as editing is done via a web browser, it can be done at any time and in any place.

Umbraco is designed to be intuitive and straightforward, so this manual aims to explain each step with clear instructions and help get you editing your website with ease.

Happy editing!

Getting Started With Umbraco

Showing you the ropes on getting started with Umbraco. A walkthrough on how to log in, create and publish content, working with pages.

Working With Rich Text Editor

How to use the Rich Text Editor.

Version Management

How to compare versions and roll back different versions of content.

Media Management

How to work with media, organize folders, and do image editing.

Tips and Tricks

Providing a few tips and tricks on how to work with Content using Umbraco.

In this section, you will find all the relevant topics to help you get started with Umbraco:

• Logging In and Out

• Umbraco Interface

• Creating, Saving and Publishing Content Options

• Finding Content

• Editing Existing Content

• Sorting Pages

• Moving a Page

• Copying a Page

• Deleting and Restoring Pages

Initial View

After logging in to an Umbraco project you will be presented with a dashboard containing a wide array of buttons and features. Let's quickly go through what each feature does.

The Dashboard

By default, there are two dashboards available:

1. The Getting Started dashboard provides helpful information about Umbraco.

2. The Redirect URL Management dashboard displays the original and redirected links of the published pages which are moved to a new location in your project.

Search, Help, and Profile Settings

1. The Search bar allows you to search for the content in your entire project.

2. The Help icon provides different Help options such as Tours, Umbraco Learning Base YouTube videos, Umbraco Documentation, and your System Information.

3. The profile icon allows you to edit your profile, change the password, and Logout from the application.

The Sections Menu

The following sections are available in the backoffice:

• Content - allows to manage your content.

• Media - allows to manage images and other media files.

• Settings - allows to handle your meta data such as document types.

• Packages - allows to manage and install packages.

• Forms - allows to create and manage your forms.

• Translation - allows to manage dictionary items.

The menu list will differ depending on your permissions for the project. For example: if you are an editor, then you will only have access to Content, Media and Forms as per default settings.

The Section tree

The section tree is different depending on the section you are in. The section provides an overview of the nodes contained in the tree.

In this example, you are looking at the content section.

The Content tab allows you to create content nodes and manage your content tree. When you hover over the sections, it is highlighted with a darker color indicating that you are hovering over it. A button with three dots will show up, left-click or right-click to view additional options.

The Recycle Bin contains the deleted content and is available only in the Content and the Media section.