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This FAQ provides an alternate set of paths into our CommonSpot user documentation.  Each link points directly to the step-by-step instructions for that task.  The specific questions are grouped by topic:

Topics

• Finding Pages

• Tracking Pages

• Existing Pages

• Version History

• Subsites

• New Pages

• Pages' Life Cycle

• New Templates

• Links

• Images

• Other Specific Elements

Finding Pages

1. How do I find pages with pending actions?

2. How do I locate my own pages?

3. How do I locate subsite pages?

4. How do I locate page by walking the template hierarchy?

5. How do I find subsite pages by CommonSpot keywords?

6. How do I find a page by text or keyword searching?

Keeping Track of Pages

1. How do I subscribe to a page?

2. How do I use and maintain page contacts?

3. How do I use and maintain personal notes?

Working with Existing Pages

1. How do I modify a page?

2. What changes take effect immediately?

3. How do I copy and paste whole elements?

4. How do I delete elements?

Working with Version History

1. How do I inspect version history?

2. How do I use version history to recover?

3. How do I set the subsite-level version history lifetime?

Working with Subsites

1. How do I create sub-subsites?

2. How do I set security for a sub-subsite?

3. How do I restrict access to a sub-subsite?

4. What file (page) and folder (subsite) names must I avoid?

Creating New Pages

1. How do I create a new page on an existing template?

2. How do I create a new page by copying an existing page?

3. How do I set the page background color?

Pages' Life Cycle

1. How do I mark content as expired?

2. How do I rename a page?

3. How do I re-build a page on a new template?

4. How do I change a page's ownership?

5. How do I deactivate a page?

6. How do I clear and update cache for all pages in a subsite at once?

Working with New Templates

1. How do I create a new template?

2. How do I design for authoring and browsing performance?

3. Why would I lock down a template?

4. How do I lock down elements?

5. How do I lock down layouts?

6. How do I lock down pop-ups?

7. How do I safely revise a template?

8. Why would I use blank pages?

9. How do I create a blank page?

10. How do I use a blank page?

Working with Links

1. How do I create links?

2. How do I use mailto links?

3. How do I upload a new binary file in advance, ready to be linked?

4. How do I make links to binary files?

5. How do I mark and use jumps to the start of a CommonSpot element?
   

6. How do I mark and use jumps to the inside of a Formatted Text Block?
   

7. How do I mark and use jumps to non-CommonSpot pages?
   

8. What about printer-friendly version links?

9. How do I check whether the links on this page are valid?

10. How do I identify pages that link to this page?

11. How do I use pop-up menus?

12. How do I create and populate page sets?

13. How do I use page sets?

14. How do I manage page sets?

15. How do I work with browser-side imagemaps?

Working with Images

1. How do I inspect the images available for me to place on a page?

2. How do I add an image to that collection?

3. How do I use image elements?

4. How do I use image grid elements?

5. How do I work with browser-side imagemaps?

Working with Other Specific Elements

1. How do I add a simple text block?

2. How do I use the RTE to import or edit existing content?

3. How do I use tabular layout elements?

4. How do I use HTML fragment files?

5. How do I "float" a Flash element?

6. How do I use scheduled elements?

7. How do I use a global edit text field [still V5.1]?

8. How do I use "Simple Forms" [still partly V5.1]?

9. How do I use Video from our Flash Media Server?