Archiving:
Hiding components or pages

Last updated 6/30/20

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What is archiving?

• The ability to hide an element without having to delete it.

• Provides access to the component or page on the back end of the website, but does not
allow the website visitor to see these components or pages.

• You can hide any component!

• You can hide any page!

How to archive or hide a Text Window Component:

4. Delete your Component Title (if there is one)

	
5. Save!

1. Click into the component you are wanting to hide:

2. Click Text Window Option

3. Expire your component (pick a date before today)

How to archive or PDF (downloads) Component:

hide a

1. Click into the component you are wanting to hide:

*** If you want the PDF AND
	
the RTF to both be hidden,
		
you but expire both of them
		
separately!

2. Click the File’s title you want to hide.

4. Delete your Component Title (if there is one)

3. Expire your component (pick a date before today)

5. Save!

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How to archive or hide a Link Component:

1. Click into the component you are wanting to hide:

2. Click the Link title you want to hide.

3. Expire your component (pick a date before today)

4. Delete your Component Title (if there is one)

5. Save!
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How to archive or hide a Photo Gallery Component:

1. Click into the component you are wanting to hide:

2. Click Gallery Options

3. Expire your component (pick a date before today)

4. Delete your Component Title (if there is one)

5. Save!

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Where will this component go?

• The component will still be present on the page.

• You will see it in the black bar on the page (that only you can see).

• The content inside the component will be hidden.

• You can only archive the entire component, not parts of the component.

• To reactivate the component, remove the expiration date.

• **Remember to delete component titles. They will still show if they are not deleted.

How to archive an entire page:

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2. Remove the link in the dropdown menu (if present!) See tutorial on editing the
dropdown menu or adding a new page.

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2. Remove the link in the dropdown menu (if present!)

Delete the page you’ve hidden from the dropdown menu.

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On the back end, your page will appear red to indicate it has been archived.

Want to edit your hidden page? Access it by
1.	 Typing in the exact link to access the page in the url bar of your browser. (i.e.: cusd.com/help.aspx
2.	 OR click Add Page in the black bar and find it in the view above that shows your backend web structure.

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To reactivate your page:

• Access the page

• General Settings Tab

• Check the Show in Dynamic Navigation box

• To add it back into the dropdown menu, go to the Custom Dropdown Menu to re-create
the menu link to the page.