Cascade Basics
Learn the basics of working in Cascade CMS — creating content, finding assets, publishing changes, and collaborating with your team.
Getting Started
Create your content
Use Add Content to pick an Asset Factory and start building pages, files, and other assets in your site.
Creating Content →Find and manage assets
Use the search bar or the context menu to quickly locate, edit, publish, move, rename, and manage your content.
Search →Publish and verify
Submit your changes, publish to the web server, and troubleshoot if your edits aren't appearing on the live site.
Why Your Changes Aren't Appearing →All Articles
Asset Display Options
Control whether Cascade CMS shows assets by their system name or their Title/Display Name, at both the user and system level.
Comments and Mentions
Use comments and @mentions in Cascade CMS to collaborate on assets, tasks, workflows, and version history.
Context Menu
Right-click any asset in Cascade CMS to access the context menu with quick actions for editing, publishing, moving, renaming, and more.
Creating Content
Step-by-step guide to creating new pages, files, and other assets in Cascade CMS using Asset Factories.
Daily Content Report
Subscribe to and schedule the Daily Content Report in Cascade CMS to receive a daily email summary of action items, content updates, and content health alerts.
Drafts and Working Copies
Understand the difference between Drafts and Working Copies (checked-out/locked assets) in Cascade CMS, including how to preview, commit, and discard changes.
Full Search and Replace
Use Full Search in Cascade CMS for advanced filtering by site, asset type, and field, plus bulk find-and-replace across multiple assets.
How do I reorder items in a navigation menu?
Menus built from a Folder follow that Folder's order — but if reordering has no effect, the menu is being generated some other way.
My Content
Access your starred assets, recent history, owned content, drafts, workflows, locked assets, and tasks from the My Content area in Cascade CMS.
Search
Use the search bar in Cascade CMS to quickly find assets by name, path, metadata, and more across all of your sites.
Styles not loading for 404 pages
Relative links break when a 404 is served from an arbitrary directory depth — override the page's link rewriting to Absolute.
The Dashboard
Overview of the Cascade CMS dashboard including default widgets, customization options, adding and removing widgets, and switching between sites.
Unpublishing vs. Deleting Content
Understand the difference between unpublishing and deleting content in Cascade CMS, including when to use each and how to prevent publishing.
User Menu and Account Settings
Access and configure your account settings in Cascade CMS, including display preferences, default site, notifications, password, profile photo, and API key management.
Why are my changes not appearing on the web site?
Troubleshoot why your changes in Cascade CMS are not appearing on the live website — covers publishing submission, publish queue, notifications, destinations, outputs, browser caching, and server caching.