File Dependency Manager Tags

Every page and file inside Modern Campus CMS are assigned a unique ID number called a Dependency Tag. When inserting files and linking to other pages across the CMS, it uses this ID number instead of a URL. As such, the file dependency manager is designed to prevent broken links from occurring on a page or file is ever moved. Dependency Manager is also how a site editor will tell what pages are referencing their own pages and files.

What is a Dependency Tag?

Site editors do not have to create a dependency tag ID upon building a page or uploading a file, nor can they change the ID number. Instead, these have already been generated on all of your site’s existing files/pages and will be automatically generated when a new page or file is created. You will see dependency manager in action most commonly after inserting images on your page. Site editors are not required to know the ID of an image as they’ll search for their images and page links by name using the file browser. The unique dependency tag number is visible within the image source field after inserting or editing an image and is contained between two sets of curly brackets {{  }}.  

A link dialogue box with a circled ID depicting a link to a page.

Dependency Tag Info Gadget

You can learn more about how your files and pages are linked by using the Dependency Tag Info Gadget. You might need to adjust your Gadgets settings to add this to your list of available Gadgets.

Video Tutorial

You can search for a dependency tag’s ID number by clicking Gadgets (the plug icon) on the right side of your page in Modern Campus CMS. Let’s watch a tutorial on how dependency manager is used while editing pages and how you can search for a dependency tag to see if other pages are referencing it.