This guide is for authorised editors who make quick edits on the live site and owners deciding where in-context editing fits. Every step uses the labels you see on screen.
- Sign in with the
frontend-authoring.edit permission, then open the page on your site.
- Select Edit page in the authoring dock (bottom-right of the page) to turn on Edit mode. Editable areas are highlighted.
- Select an editable control to open the inline editor.
- With an area open, change the text or content.
- Save your change. The confirmation tells you whether it saved live or was submitted as a draft for approval.
- If you don’t want to keep it, close the editor and discard the unsaved changes instead.
- Close the inline editor when you are done, then select Edit page again in the dock to turn editing off.
- The authoring controls disappear from your view; visitors never receive them.
- In-context edits for trusted admins. Use it for small text and content fixes where seeing the page helps.
- Set
CAPELL_FRONTEND_AUTHORING in the host application’s environment or capell-frontend-authoring.enabled in configuration.
- When it is on, only signed-in admins see editing controls.
- When it is off, public visitors get the same plain page either way, with no editing controls exposed.
- After a page loads, the site quietly checks whether the current visitor is a signed-in admin.
- Only when that check confirms an admin does the page add the editing controls.
- Public visitors never receive this, so cached public pages stay free of any editing data.
| Need | Enable |
|---|
| Quick fixes without the full admin | Inline editing on selected page fields |
| Bigger structural changes | The full page editor in admin instead |
- Don’t use inline editing for large layout changes. It is best for small, in-place edits; use the page editor for structure.
| Role | First useful screen |
|---|
| Editor | The live page with Edit page turned on |
| Site owner | Decide which pages and editors use inline editing |
| What you see | What it means | What to do |
|---|
| I don’t see edit areas on the page | You lack the authoring permission, authoring is disabled, or edit mode is off | Sign in with the authoring permission and select Edit page |
| My change isn’t showing for visitors | The page is serving a cached copy | Wait a moment, or clear the page cache |
| I can’t edit part of the page | That area isn’t set as editable | Use the full page editor for areas that aren’t editable inline |
| I changed the wrong thing | The edit isn’t saved yet | Close the editor and discard the unsaved changes before saving |
