Staging vs. Production

 

Step by step Instructions

Modern Campus CMS uses what is referred to as a Staging server site environment for editing. The primary use for this environment is to create a drafting area where you can edit your page before publishing and it is completely separate from the live production server where pages are published and live to viewers. A significant benefit to having a separate production server is that it gives site editors the ability to internally link to other pages that they don’t have access to edit through the File Dependency Manager. 

Staging is the default view and should always be the environment you work in while editing your page. While site editors can toggle over to Production and Dev views to grab their browser URLs, site editors do not have access to edit any folder, file or pages from those Production and Dev views and should avoid working in them.

Main Page
  1. Each page in Staging is listed with a .pcf extension (this is in the folder navigation view). This is your editable page inside Modern Campus CMS. 

    staging vs. production step 1 screenshot

  2. To see a draft of your page before publishing to the production server, remember you can always use the Preview tab while editing a page and can even switch between views for different screen sizes. 

    staging vs production step 2 screenshot

  3. If you toggle your environment to production (while in the folder navigation), you will notice all your pages end with an .html extension. These are all your live pages. Only live pages and files will show up in Production view. Notice that in the Production view, you can not check pages in or out - this is because you can not do any editing in the production view.

    staging vs. production step 3 screenshot