Topic: cannot edit content

Hi,
I am a newbie and am getting nowhere trying to set up a defined area to edit, saving and then editing the content. The content does not become edit-able.  I cannot seem to find a help guide for the very basics.  I think I used to know where to put the comment links in the code, but I do not know where to put the class edit in the cod - I need more examples of classes - I am not a programmer and am trying to identify where exactly to put the class edit.

Re: cannot edit content

You should find this post helpful on adding class names into the code
http://smplc.ms/editcode

We're investigating why defining edit areas aren't working for your site.

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Hi there,

For some reason I am having issues with defining certain areas too - for some reason when selecting images in either PNG or JPG format to be defined for editing, when then going into the editor - the images can be altered however only as a plain text object - not an image for some reason. Sometimes it works with some images and sometimes it does not with others.

Apart from this I must say we are extremely impressed with the CMS and will be reccomending this to everyone! If this could be fixed then it's very much close to perfection.

Thanks.

Re: cannot edit content

Hi Cliff

I've taken a look at the page you're referring to and it seems that the images are not actually images but empty spans with background images inside. That's your problem right there :)

If you replace these with actual on-page images it will work fine.

Thanks for your kind words by the way - it means a lot to us!

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Okay, I tried to add the class="edit" to multiple areas of the code & see if anything would work.
Here is what I have done so far:
Click Define edit areas, then selected a section of content on my site,  then clicked save changes.
Then I go to Edit Content & try to click on the area that I have defined as an edit area, but it is not able to be clicked on (as in the define edit area selection did not work).
Then I tried to click on the Code tab.  I am not a programmer, so I'm not totally sure which HTML element to add the class="edit" would affect all of the page's content.

Here's an example.  I added the class="edit" in places & saved changes, but I still was unable to go back & edit content that is displayed from my website in the Simple CMS site.
<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="borggaard.aspx.cs" Inherits="philanthropy_borggaard" %>
<asp:content id="Content1" contentplaceholderid="MainContent" runat="Server" class="edit">
    <div class="box" id="n0" class="edit">
        <h1 id="n1">Borggaard Beach - Let's Make A Splash!</h1>
  <br />     
<p id="n2" class="edit">

Please let me know what I am doing wrong. I really need to figure this out & be able to allow other users to edit the content as well.  Thanks.

Re: cannot edit content

Hi, when adding/updating your site you set the class name to "edit this". The class name should not contain spaces. Also, trying to use class="edit" won't work if you've chosen a different class name. I've updated your site to use the default "edit" class name. You can now define and edit content.

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Thank you for your help - editing now.

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I cannot edit my website, liked the old system much more user friendly. the website I am trying to edit is www.kilcoyexchangehotel.com

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Simon 9 "liked the old system much more user friendly"

You gotta' be kidding right?

Re: cannot edit content

Hi Simon, you had the wrong "root directory" saved. It was set to /public_html/index.html instead of /httpdocs/index.html. I've updated this for you.

You should find everything working perfectly that the next time you log into the system.

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Simon9 - I really hope you don't prefer the old system. It would seriously make me worry about what we've been doing for the past year! ;)

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Hi,

I am finding I cannot edit content on my site, despite defining it then saving, but when I go back toe dit the tags don't appear over the area I previously specified.

From reading the above posts, it seems the system adds tages to class yet I have already used class for styles etc, so the code seems to end up like this:

class=left edit edit

What am I doing wrong?

Re: cannot edit content

Hi Rob, it appears that attributes on your web pages were missing quote marks,

e.g. attributes look like this:

<td rowspan=5 class=left ....

but the system expects them to be formatted like this:

<td rowspan="5" class="left" ....

If you add quotes around your class attributes everything should work correctly for you.