Sort, filter, and search pages

The Pages page displays all created pages by all users.

Filter pages

To display the filtering options for pages, click Filter pages (Filter pages).
On the right side of the page, under Filter pages, you can use the following filtering options:

  • To filter pages created by you, click My pages.
  • To filter pages created by specific user(s), click Custom filter and then click Select authors (Select authors).
    In By Author dropdown box, select a user from the list.
  • To filter pages according to their language translations, in the Languages dropdown box, select any of the available language options.
  • To filter pages according to their status, click the respective status from the list.
    If you want to filter pages by more than one status, click Custom filter and then use Select status (Select status) to set your custom filter.
  • To display pages with missing properties only, click With no Descriptions or With no Keywords.
  • To filter pages according to the date they were modified, click Custom filter and then click Select date range (Select date range) to set your custom filter.
    • To display pages modified during a specific period of time, define a custom time interval using the Date range input fields. 
      Click Confirm.
    • To go back to all filtering options, click All filters.
      The system displays all filtering options, but applies the last filtering settings until you clear or change your choice.
  • To display outdated (expired) pages only, click the Outdated filter.

    PREREQUISITES: This filtering option is not displayed on the user interface by default. To be able to see and apply the filter, the outdated content feature must be enabled. For more information, see Outdated content settings.

  • To filter pages according to the user who is the last modifier, click Custom filter and then click  Select last modifiers (Select editors) in Last modified by dropdown box. Then select a user from the list.

    NOTE: This filter uses the language data and displays the editor(s) who last modified a page in any language available.

When you apply filtering to the pages, the system displays the result of the filtering in a list. The hierarchy of each page included in the result, is depicted under its name.

Sort pages

Use the Sort pages dropdown box in the toolbar of Pages to sort the list of pages.
There are the following sorting options:

  • by Hierarchy
    The system displays pages in a tree view, using the hierarchy, which was originally defined.
    This is the default display of Pages page.
    When you select this option all previous sorting and filtering is removed.
  • Last created on top
    The system displays the last pages that were created on the top of the list.
    You can use this sorting option on filtered pages.
  • Last modified on top
    The system displays the last pages that were modified on the top of the list.
    You can use this sorting option on filtered pages.
  • Alphabetically (A-Z) and Alphabetically (Z-A)
    The system displays the pages in alphabetic order starting with A or with Z.
    You can use this sorting option on filtered pages.
  • Custom sorting…
    A window appears where you perform the following:
    1. Select sorting criterion from the dropdown box and choose between Ascending and Descending order in the radio button.
    2. You can also and add more than one criterion by clicking Add another sorting rule link and you can remove sorting criteria by clicking Remove link.
    3. When you are finished, click Save.
      The system sorts the pages according to the custom sorting.
    4. To edit a custom sorting that you have created, select Edit custom sorting… from the Sort pages dropdown box.

      You can use this sorting option on filtered pages.

Search for pages

  1. To search for a particular page, on Pages page, click Search...
    A search field appear.
  2. Enter the name or part of the name of the page you want to find and click Search.
    The system displays a list of all pages whose name contains the search word.
  3. When finished searching, click Close search.

The Search field is case insensitive.

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